Graduate career handbook / Judith Done and Rachel Mulvey.
By: Done, Judith [author]
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Contributor(s): Mulvey, Rachel [author].
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BookSeries: Brilliant: Publisher: Harlow : Pearson Education, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Third edition.Description: xvii, 329 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781292158877 (paperback).Subject(s): College graduates -- Employment | Vocational guidanceDDC classification: 650.14 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Career Item | 650.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00218398 |
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The brand new 3rd edition of one of the UK's bestselling graduate career guides that's sold over 4,100 copies.
Providing essential, life-changing guidance to help students get started on their graduate career, this indispensable guide helps readers discover how to make sense of their opportunities, weigh up their options and how to make the right choices.
Packed with vital information and powerful ideas, tactics and strategies, it coaches readers in the positive mindset required to land a brilliant career. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new content on managing the transition from student to graduate; updated data, stats and examples; and a full glossary of terms. There is also a section help tutors with teaching employability and career skills.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: What's out there. Accessing job opportunities -- The graduate labour market -- Labour market information: analysis of what graduates do -- The global graduate -- Graduate training schemes -- Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and self-employment -- Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application -- Part 2: How to make the most of what's out there. Knowing who you are: skills, interests and values -- Work experience: making it purposeful -- Dates and deadlines: your timeline for action -- Making applications: getting past the first post -- Succeeding in selection -- My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Dr 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 Employment Research. For many years, Rachel worked as a careers adviser in schools and colleges, before moving into the management and training of career professionals. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her work on enhancing undergraduates' career readiness, and researches the way workers across EU learn skills and transfer them from job to job. Her second Pearson title, Brilliant Passing Psychometric Tests, was published in 2015.