Top tips for careers services and your relationship with them as postgraduate students.
Trusted, impartial and accessible support throughout your Oxford graduate course and for life. We offer one-to-one advice, workshops, careers talks, employer events, careers fairs and a host of exclusive internships, skills-development and insight programmes. We are here to support you – whether you have no idea, some ideas or a clear focus about what you want to do after Oxford.
Five activities to get started
- Check out our term programme for Careers Fairs and talks, application workshops,
- Insight programmes and more
- Apply for a micro-internship, 3-5 days of real work experience in 9 th week each term
- Consult our sector guides to understand how to gain experience, job-search tactics and key resources for 40+ career areas
- Create a compelling CV and boost skills using our extensive online advice
- Use Career Weaver to identify your strengths, values and motivations
Need more help? Get individual advice from a Careers Adviser
We can help you to:
- Generate career ideas
- Develop job search strategies
- Understand what you have to offer an employer and how to market yourself effectively
- Create tailored and effective CVs and other application documents
- Explore and apply for further study or post-docs
- Prepare for interviews and assessment centres
- And much more….we are happy to discuss anything career-related!
In Oxford on a 9- or 12-month course?
Think about careers early on so that you don’t miss out! You may have only just arrived but Michaelmas Term is packed full of careers activities and opportunities to meet recruiters. Explore the term planner and get involved.
Be aware that some opportunities have autumn deadlines (eg management consultancy, banking, civil service). Discover typical timelines for your target careers by reading our expert sector guides.
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