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Succeed in the selection process: skills development & occupational awareness
- improve your employability
- find out about occupations, sectors, industries and professions
- cope with applications, interviews and assessment centres
- practise aptitude tests
- get that job
- build up your Personal Development Planning portfolio.
Skills workshops & occupational briefings
These sessions are designed to help you make and implement career choices. Workshops are delivered by employers and speakers from professional bodies as well as our Careers Advisers.
To find out about Development events, come in and pick up a programme or see Skills Development Diary (campus only) for listings.
All Skills Development sessions count towards the new Bath Award.
In addition, a programme of generic skills training courses for research postgraduates is offered by the University. See the PGSkills webpages.
Get help with applications & interviews
Downloadable helpsheets covering application forms, interviews, assessment centres and CVs.
Your CV - Get it Right!
This is a booklet written by our Careers Advisers to help you write CVs and covering letters. It has examples of different approaches to layout, as well as written information and advice.
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You can pick up a copy in the Information Room, or download
it as follows:
PDF
file - 253 kb (campus only).
You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF file - you
can download
a free copy from the Adobe site.
RTF
file - 706 kb (campus only).
Springboard Guide
If you are in the final year of your course, make sure you come
in to collect a copy of this guide! It covers a range of topics you
will need to know about, from making career choices to finding job
vacancies, considering further study and going for interviews. There
are separate versions for undergraduates and postgraduates.
You can download electronic versions of some of the content via the applications
and interviews page.
If you're doing an MSc in the School of Management, see also the MSc Management
springboard guide:
PDF
file - 174 kb You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to
view the PDF file - you can download
a free copy from the Adobe site.
RTF
file - 1,399 kb.
Other pages:
- Aptitude tests
- Are you a first year?
- Equalities issues
- External events (campus only) not organised through ourselves
- MyFuture - graduate jobs, work experience vacancies and other opportunities targeted at Bath students
- Find out about occupations
- Personal Development Planning (PDP)
- Services for postgraduates
- Skills information and software
- Recruitment events diary (campus only) - for details on employers' recruitment events
- the Students' Union's SORTED training.