Careers Advisory Service - Choose a career: online guidance tools

Choose a career: find out what I want

There are many ways to start the process of choosing a career and a lot will depend on what you already know and the previous experiences you have had. The best way to start is to find out what you want from your work and to start to look at some jobs which you think might be of interest. If you have a few ideas of jobs that interest you then take some time to find out more about what they involve. The Choosing a career leaflet below will help you.

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On this page:

Self-awareness
Your degree what next?
Using your subject or not
Taking a gap year
Further study
Changing your course

Other pages:

Online guidance tools - including new personality and values questionnaires
One to one careers help
Find out about occupations
What do Bath graduates do?
Networking
MyFuture vacancy database

Self-awareness

Understanding more about yourself is central to careers planning. Considering your skills, interests, personality and values will help you to make choices, identify areas for development and sell yourself. Start with the Choosing a career leaflet above and the online guidance tools. You will find a variety of tools and approaches to choose from.

Your degree what next?

In addition to the resources listed above these web pages may be helpful:

Using your subject or not

Some students find using their subject a useful starting point to generate career ideas. For others their subject is something that that they want to disregard or avoid. Our leaflet Don’t want to use your subject? addresses issues for the latter group:

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For those who want some inspiration of where their subject might lead them the following resources will be helpful:

What do Bath graduates do?
What do Bath PhD graduates do?
Statistics on what previous students from your department have gone on to do.
What do graduates do?
In tandem with your department's statistics, this gives you detailed subject breakdowns for the national data on graduate destinations. Use the publication in hard copy in the Information Room or view on Prospects.ac.uk using the link above.
Options with your subject
Information sheets to help you to focus on what's possible with your degree subject. Collect a copy from the Information Room or view on Prospects.ac.uk using the link above.

Taking a gap year

Employers can be impressed by a gap year so make sure that you make it count. For advice and ideas read our leaflet which you can download via the page linked to above.

Considering further study

We have a section of our website dedicated to this. In particular you should read the section Why do postgraduate study?

Changing your course

We have a webpage for those who are thinking of changing course or leaving university .

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