Career Profiles Online
If you are trying to make a choice about the particular career sector or role you would like to enter it might help to hear from people actually working in different roles. You may find the following sites useful.
- Career Player: this is a free site targeted at graduates. It has 100s of career advice videos bringing graduate jobs to life as well as opportunities to practice psychometric tests and search graduate jobs and internships
- Career Box: this is also a free site, not specifically targeted at graduates, which includes online interviews with a wide range of individuals across different sectors. Use the search facility to find the most appropriate profiles for you.
Students/Graduates specific career planning websites
Graduate Prospects: Graduate Prospects is the Official Graduate Careers Website - the best way to find graduate jobs, postgraduate courses, work experience and careers advice.
UEL Graduate destinations: What do UEL graduates do? Click on the following link to find out what careers alumni have pursued by degree subject.
National graduate destinations: What do graduates do? The website provides national information about the destinations of graduates six months after leaving university.
- Targetjobs The largest choice of graduate jobs, work experience and internships.
- Agency Central Has hundreds of Recruitment Agencies from all sectors and a Careers Advice Centre.
General Career planning websites:
- WindmillsProgramme - The windmills programme has lots of useful information about career management and identifying skills.
- Buro Careers - Buro Careers offers a searchable directory of graduate schemes, internships and placements to students, and is the largest and most comprehensive site of its kind. Currently, the site hosts over 900 schemes.
- Creative Industries:Creative Skillset: The creative Skillset has useful information on all the different jobs out there to help you decide which one is right for you
- Creative Opportunities: The University of the Arts London Creative Opportunities website has various vacancies, work placements and freelance opportunities for creative students/graduates.
- Recruitment agencies: The Recruitment & Employment Confederation – Search for a wide range of recruitment agencies by sector and location
