Description
Book SynopsisDr Judith Done is a visiting research fellow at the University of Chester, where she was formerly Director of Careers and Employability. She is a fellow of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG) and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. Her working life has been spent in career guidance as a practitioner, trainer and manager. Her research interests are in career guidance, personal development and interpersonal communication. Judith as a volunteer advice worker, school governor and occasional freelance trainer.
Professor Rachel Mulvey is Dean of Psychology at the University of East London, and Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick Institute of Employm
Table of Contents
- Part 1: What’s Out There
- 1 Accessing job opportunities
- 2 The graduate labour 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
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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 in selection
- 13 My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters
