Brilliant Graduate Career Handbook

What are you going to do with your degree once you've graduated? This book gives you the help and information you need to get started on your graduate career - understanding what's out there, how to make sense of it, and how to make good choices. You'll learn how to navigate the job market, how to keep going when the going gets tough and how to make best use of the opportunities around you to develop your skills and experience for the future. Brilliant Graduate Career, 2nd edition will make all this practical & essential information readily accessible to you and will explain why lateral thinking and flexibility are essential to navigating through choppy economic waters if you are to land a brilliant career. Brilliant Outcomes * Make the best of opportunities to develop your skills & experience * Navigate and understand the current job market * Learn what employers want and how to show what you can offer * Land your brilliant career!About the authors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 What's out there 1 Accessing job opportunities 2 The graduate job market 3 Labour market information: analysis of what graduates do 4 The global graduate 5 Graduate training schemes 6 Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and self-employment 7 Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application Part 2 How to make the most of what's out there 8 Knowing who you are: skills, interests and values 9 Work experience: making it purposeful 10 Dates and deadlines: your timeline for action 11 Making applications: getting past the first post 12 Succeeding at selection 13 My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters Online resources Further reading