Career Skills for Education Students

• Introduction
• User Guide
• Table of Contents
  • Getting started
  • Finding out more
  • Getting that job
  • What next?
• 1-4 Getting started
  • 1 - Where are you now?
    • Section overview
    • Employability survey
    • Career survey
  • 2 - Where do you want to be?
    • Section overview
    • Degree destinations
    • Prospects planner
    • Some career options
    • Options outside your degree subject
    • Funding for further study
    • Module choices
  • 3 - Getting the balance right
    • Section overview
    • Balance survey
    • Does the job fit your needs?
    • Rights and regulations
    • LGBT guidelines
    • Self-employment
  • 4 - Skills Audit
    • Section overview
    • Skills diary
    • Skills audit
    • Skill spotting
    • Identifying skills from hobbies and part-time work
    • Your values
    • Employability profile
    • Card sort exercise
• 5-8 Finding out more
  • 5 - Skills development
    • Section overview
    • Volunteering
    • Developing and improving your skills
    • How not to do it!
    • Evaluating visual aids
    • Giving a presentation
    • Preparing a presentation
  • 6 - Searching for opportunities
    • Section overview
    • Anatomy of a Job Advertisement
    • Job advert analysis
    • Alternative sources of vacancies
    • Internet searches
  • 7 - Building up your contacts
    • Section overview
    • Making Contacts and Developing Networks
    • Professional bodies and your future
    • Careers Service
    • Getting the best out of your Careers Service
  • 8 - Doing your research
    • Section overview
    • What information do you need?
    • Location research
    • Research Activity
    • School research
    • Postgraduate course research
• 9-12 Getting That Job
  • 9 - Making applications
    • Section overview
    • Card sort exercise
    • CV evaluation
    • Writing your CV
    • Improving your CV
    • Standard application form
    • Covering letters
    • Online applications
  • 10 - Interviews
    • Section overview
    • Interview videos
    • Mini Interview
    • Stages of an interview
    • Telephone interviews
  • 11 - Teaching interviews
    • Section overview
    • Hints and Advice
    • Alternative activities
  • 12 - Assessment centres
    • Section overview
    • Summarising information exercise
    • Psychometric Testing
    • Individual exercise
    • Ethical dilemmas
    • Example of a group exercise
• 13-14 What next?
  • 13 - Application outcomes
    • Section overview
    • Post-interview analysis
    • Staying positive
    • Learning from past experiences
    • Sources of help
    • Using Feedback
    • Choosing between offers
  • 14 - Where to go from here
    • Section overview
    • Skills Review
    • Take away guide
    • Card Sort Exercise
    • Writing your Action Plan
    • In a few years time
    • Performance Audit of Me plc
    • Finally...
• Resources
  • Web Resources
    • Education links
    • Local resources
    • Job vacancies
    • Employability websites
    • Graduate employers
    • Volunteering opportunities
    • Psychometric tests
    • General links
  • Books
  • AgCAS materials
  • Software
• Appendix
• Index

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