What’s on the Careers Service’s coffee table?

Not a stack of year-old copies of Empire, Men’s Health and Heat, that’s f’sure. As the new term flood of careers titles abates it’s time to give you a round up of what’s available. Copies of all are available to browse and/or take away at your campus Careers Centre. If not, let us know and we’ll get some to you. Now, without any further delay…

Law is always a tad old school (no offence and all that), the legal profession is *big* on paper and this year is no exception:

• Chambers Student – A guide to law firms and the Bar.
• The Lex 100 – the student guide to the UK’s premier law firms.
• The Training Contract & Pupilage Handbook – ‘the essential law careers guide’.
• Targetjobs Law, Pupilages Handbook and Vacation Schemes & Mini Pupilages.
• Beginners Guide to a Career in Law – for non-Law students considering a career in law who need a basic primer.

Also from Targetjobs with profiles of major employers, advice on career options, applications, interviews and career development;

• Engineering
• Finance
• Internships
• IT & Technology
• Property
• Teaching

Employer Guides/Directories are always popular;

• The Guardian UK300 features ‘the most popular graduate employers as voted by students and graduates of the UK’.
• The Job Crowd Top Companies has rankings based solely on graduate employee feedback.
• Rate my Placement is a student guide to top undergraduate employers
• Starting Out – the LGBT Careers Guide from Stonewall
• The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers – ‘the definitive guide to the leading employers recruiting graduates’.

Prospects have published a couple of very useful titles;

• Student Career Guide– advice on employability, career sectors and content from leading graduate recruiters
• Postgraduate Study Guide – advice on chosing a course, a university, studying abroad and paying for the whole shebang.
• And also digital only titles on a range of other topics.

A couple of quality specialist titles;

• Gradcracker Toolkit – the pocket-sized careers manual for STEM students.
• How to be a Journalist – advice from industry pros, a directory of training courses and graduate case studies.

And finally, from your friends here at the Careers Service;

• Your Career Starts Here – the 2016-17 student diary has advice on how to improve your employability skills while at university, as well as being a handy A5 diary.
• Our in-house leaflets on Finding part-time jobs, CVs and covering letters, Application forms, Interviews and assessment centres, How to find a job, Opportunities in art and design and Disclosing a disability condense our web content into a range of handy reference booklets and are available to take away or download from our site.

How’s that to keep you going? Grab a copy or three of any of the above to keep yourself informed or provide the most ‘what the eff…?’ stocking filler present on Christmas Day. You’re welcome…