As a postgraduate student you could be facing some very complex issues when considering your career and you may find it helpful to discuss your plans with one of our professionally qualified HE careers advisers. To find out more about the service, visit About Us.
Your main choice will be either to try and stay in academia or seek employment.
For general information, visit the relevant pages below:
Stay in Academia
Postgraduate Study
Information on research and teaching posts can be found on:
Information on compiling a CV for academic purposes, please check the Applications & Interviews page.
Vitae is a national organisation championing the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff in higher education institutions and research institutes, visit the website for details.
Seek Employment
Most companies do not have a separate recruitment strategy for post graduates – they want the best person for the job based on criteria for assessment. So the advice is to look at graduate vacancies in general. Reading the person specification may reveal that a postgraduate qualification is desirable or it may not, but articulating the “added value” of such a qualification in the application may give an edge over other candidates.
Go to the Job Hunting page
If you are interested in finding out what other post graduates have done refer to www.prospects.ac.uk/links/wdpd