Careers Service

About the Careers Service

• Opening Times, Contacting Us and Location
• Our staff
• What's On Diary
• Registration of users
• Supporters Club
• Getting Started

Targeted information for ...

• Alumni
• Graduates of other universities
• International Students
• Mature Students
• Prospective Students
• Recent graduates
• Recruiters/Organisations
• Research Staff/postdocs
  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Arts & Humanities and Humanities & Social Sciences
• Senior Tutors
• Students with disability

Help with career choices

• Cambridge Careers Guide
• Career Planning Health Check
• CLICK Email Service
• Destinations of Cambridge Graduates
• GradLink - can help you find graduates with specific experiences
• Guide to Career Decision Making
• Job and Interview Feedback
• Podcasts - over 150 sessions
• Prospects Career Planner
• Which Job? Guideline
• Work Families guideline

Meeting a careers adviser

• Booking Appointments
• Interview Practice Sessions
• Quick Queries - short drop-in sessions

Career Sectors

Our accumulated knowledge on those sectors about which we are most frequently asked:

• Academic Careers
• Advertising and Marketing Communications
• Arts and Heritage
• Banking and Financial Management
• Consultancy
• Economics
• Engineering and Construction
• Environmental and Conservation Work
• Financial Services, Financial Management and Property Careers
• For more than profit
• Health Sector
• Information Technology
• International Development
• International Organisations (Supranationals)
• Languages, Careers Using
• Law
• Mathematics
• Management, Administration and Services
• Media
• Public Security, Protection and Investigation
• Public Sector
• Publishing
• Science
• Teaching
• Technology-oriented Companies in Cambridge

Careers Library Resources

• Careers Library Files
• Computer Facilities
• DVDs, Videos and CDs
• Guidelines series of leaflets
• Newspapers and Journals
• Reference Books
• Takeaway employer brochures
• Takeaway Information
• Takeaway magazines and caseBooks
• Starter Sheets
• Start Here Library and Information Tours

Finding vacancies

• Current Vacancies - get new vacancies emailed to you daily or weekly
• Archived Vacancies - for the past two years
• Externally sourced additional vacancies
• Making speculative applications
• Networking guideline
• Sources of Vacancy Information guideline

Making applications and selection processes

• CVs and Cover Letters Book
• Making Successful Applications guideline
• Interviews guideline
• Case Study Interviews guideline
• Psychometric Tests and Personality Questionnaires guideline
• Designing a personal profile
• Job and Interview Feedback
• Negotiating with Employers guideline
• Book an interview practice session

Further Study

• Postgraduate Study
• Postgraduate Study in the USA
• Postgraduate Study library files

Taking Time Out

• Taking Time Out Guideline
• Vacation work resources
• Volunteering
• Gap Year library files
• Working Overseas library files

Vacation Work

• Vacation Work resources
• Current Vacation Opportunities - get new opportunities emailed to you daily or weekly
• Archived Vacation Opportunities
• Working Overseas library files
• Vacation Work Feedback