Career Resources

The Careers Service has a wide range of resources available for you to watch or download. Select from the links below to explore the resources available.
You may also wish to come into the Careers Service and browse our reference materials and take away a selection of directories/publications.

General

• Advice and Tips Leaflets - tips on how to write CVs, Interviews, Personal Statements and much more!
• E-shelf - listing some of the reference books we hold in the Careers Service.
• Country Profiles - find jobs and work experience abroad, learn how to apply for visas or work permits and uncover the local culture in over 50 countries around the world.
• Options with your subject - discover how best to use your degree. If you are studying for a combined degree, you might find it useful to look at more than one subject.
• Prospects Industry Insights - essential information on working in a wide range of sectors from sales and retail to media and the performing arts.
• Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE)

DVDs / Videos

Journey to Work
These DVD clips show eight students as they prepare for life after University. The students talk abut their career ambitions and what they have already done to maximise their chances of getting a job they want. They listen to advice from industry mentors and careers advisers. We then meet then again a few months later to see whether they found the advice useful, have uncovered exciting opportunities or had a change of heart. Graduate recruiters tells us what makes an application stand out.

• Banking & Financial Management - Featuring Arjun who wants to get into Finance
• Computer Science - Featuring David who wants to get into IT
• Psychology - Featuring Gemma who wants to get into Social Work
• History - Featuring Harriet who wants to get into Journalism
• Marketing - Featuring James who wants to get into Marketing
• Fashion - Featuring Laura and Leigh who want to get into Fashion
• English Literature - Featuring Martha who is wondering about PR
• English Literature - Featuring Martha who is wondering about PR

The DVD also features quick guides to boosting your employability:

• CVs and Applications
• Getting Involved in Student Life
• Networking
• Postgraduate Study
• Using Your Careers Service
• Volunteering
• Work Experience

Applications and Interviews

• Your Job's On-line Video - shows two major employers selecting graduates, using only their electronic applications
• Your Job's On-line Video (subtitled)
• The Assessment Centre Video - shows what happens at a typical assessment centre when a major employer selects graduates with degrees 'in any discipline'
• The Assessment Centre Video (subtitled)

Constructing Your Future - Advice on graduate applications for international civil engineers

• Advice on finding a graduate training scheme
• Advice on Applications, CVs and Covering Letters Introduction
• Advice on Interviews and Assessment Centres

Making an Impact - The Graduate Job Interview
Clips of real students and graduates being interviewed by actual recruiters.

• The graduate job interview with Enterprise Rent-A-Car (35 minutes)
• The graduate job interview with Enterprise-Rent-A-Car (subtitled)
• The graduate job interview with KPMG (29 minutes)
• The graduate job interview with KPMG (subtitled)
• The graduate job interview at Winning Moves creative agency (31 minutes)
• The graduate job interview at Winning Moves creative agency (subtitled)
• The graduate telephone interview (13 minutes)
• The graduate telephone interview (subtitled)

Selection Centres for Specialty Training
A wide range of assessment techniques are used to select junior doctors for Specialty Training. Using genuine assessors and candidates, these video clips show you what may happen in five different assessment stations.

• Portfolio Interview
• Portfolio Interview (subtitled)
• Presentation
• Presentation (subtitled)
• Mock GP Consultation
• Mock GP Consultation (subtitled)
• Structured Interview
• Structured Interview (subtitled)
• Simulation Station
• Simulation Station (subtitled)

Big Opportunities in Small Businesses - Graduates in SMEs

• The Employers' Programme - deals with the advantages of employing graduates in SMEs and the practical schemes available to support this
• The Employers' Programme (subtitled)
• The Student Programme - deals with graduates' experiences of working for an SME
• The Student Programme (subtitled)

Employer/Agency Resources

• JobShop / Placement Base -contains a wealth of information on a wide range of employers and occupations, from Teaching, Engineering, Law and Scientific Research and Development to Voluntary Work and taking a Year Out.
• Links to Employer Websites - we have compiled a list of employer links which we hope you will find useful.
• Targetjobs Employer Insights - independent reviews on top graduate employers.
• Accenture - The Essential Skills Series: Influencing Skills
• Accenture - The Essential Skills Series: Time Management
• CareerPlayer - industry insights, assessment centre, interview skills and presentation videos

Occupations

• Occupational Profiles - explore types of jobs.
• The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - a mini guide to...the Chartered Secretary profession
• pressat - How to get a job in Public Relations and various other PR tips

Living, Learning and Working in Europe

• Beyond Borders - A mapping project of international students’ engagement in the Scottish higher education learning experience
• A Career in the Heart of Europe - European Personnel Selection Office
• Wish You Were There? - Country Profiles
• British Council Presentation - Comenius Assitants, Language Assistants, IAESTE
• Erasmus Student Mobility Programme
• IBM - Learning, Living and Working in Europe
• Returning from an Erasmus Year - Simon Adams
• NUS Scotland Presentation - Students Without Borders / Student Mobility
• Scotland Europa Presentation
• Young Scot - Volunteering in Europe
• Useful Websites - Opportunities for further work, study or student exchange in Europe - further and higher education
• Eurograduate 2012 Digital Issue - includes topics such as: working abroad; graduate jobs in Europe; engineering opportunities in Germany; careers in finance; developments in the travel sector; postgraduate courses; MBA programmes