Careers Guide
This Guide provides additional support to the help available through your course and directs you to the most relevant resources for information and advice in planning your career.
College Learning Resources Centre Higher Education Careers Resources section: directories of occupations and graduate recruiters; 'Graduate Prospects' information booklets; file of example CVs and Covering Letters for Bournemouth University students; folders on Working in EU countries and Self-employment; videos on selection interviews, transferable skills and assessment centres; interactive CD ROMs to practice IQ tests and timed aptitude tests.
Partnership University Careers Centres for a more extensive range of literature on occupations, job hunting and further study in the UK and overseas. Bournemouth University Careers Information Room is located at Talbot Campus. Use the link on the HE Home page for location, opening times and further information.
Web sites should be your main source of current information and advice. The internet offers a vast resource base for careers guidance and job search. Go to the relevant section of this Guide for recommended sites and links.
Graduate Prospects is the official national careers site for students studying in higher education in the UK and Ireland and recent graduates. Click on the link below to read the latest issue of the fortnightly 'Prospects Graduate' on-line magazine. www.prospects.ac.uk/links/graduate
