Career development

The University Careers Service can offer advice when you come to apply for jobs. You can visit in person, or make use of the wide range of resources available on the website.

What the Careers Service offers to postgraduate students

The Careers Service offers help and advice to all postgraduates, and its services are available to all alumni for life.

Unlike commercial agencies and internet services, the Careers Service puts your interests first, and has no dependent relationship with any employer or other commercial organisation or course provider.

We offer impartial and confidential advice through face-to-face discussions with any of the eleven Careers Advisers at Stuart House. All the Advisers have had varied and successful experience in graduate careers, and several have postgraduate degrees. We are happy to talk with you whether you are interested in further study, an academic or nonacademic career, or undecided.

We provide a programme of briefings and events on specific fields of work, group sessions on job-hunting techniques, a selection of psychometric assessment tools, and a huge range of takeaway and reference material.

The Careers Service is at Stuart House on Mill Lane and is open Monday–Friday year-round (including vacations) except over Christmas, on public holidays, and for a week in July. Five Information staff are in the Library to help answer questions about resources – no appointment needed.

Looking for an academic job?

If you are looking for an academic job then the following websites are a good place to start.

• UK academic jobs - sign up for their free E-mailing lists.
• Association of Commonwealth Universities
• Times Higher Education Supplement jobs page
• Cambridge University Reporter
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (mostly USA)
• H-NET Jobguide Index (mostly USA)
• Association of Commonwealth Universities