What are your options?
There are lots of things you could do after you graduate, including:
- Graduate jobs: either a graduate scheme with a big company or a graduate-level job with a smaller company. Most graduate jobs are open to graduates from any degree discipline, so there's a wide range of possibilities open to you.
- Temporary work: for example, through a recruitment agency
- Volunteering
- Time out: for example, to go travelling
- Further study
- Working or studying overseas
You can start exploring your options in the 'Discover what's out there' part of the Career Compass:
Career planning
Career planning is about knowing yourself, what’s out there, making decisions and then making it happen. Taking the first step can be difficult, but we have lots of tools and resources to help you through the process, including:
Understand yourself
Have a look at the Understanding Yourself part of the Careers Compass, which links to a number of online assessments to help with your career planning.
Career planner
Available from Graduate Prospects, this online tool helps you to identify your skills and motivations and suggests jobs that might be suited to you based on your interests.
Career assessments
Through the Careers Service website you have access to a range of career assessments to help you identify your strengths, skills, and values.
Writing a career action plan
It’s useful to create a career action plan to help you identify your career goals and how you can achieve these to help you stay on track during your time at university. To help with this we have created a template that you can follow here: