New Quick Guides: Making Career Choices and First Year Students

The Careers Service has created two new interactive presentations filled with handy advice and tips, as well as viewpoints of employers and students.

The two Quick Guides ‘Careers Success for First Years’ and ‘A Quick Guide to Career Decision Making’ are available online, and in addition to including handy information from the Careers Service, each presentation contains a number of videos providing insights from both employers and Imperial students. Morgan Stanley, GSK and Transport for London are amongst the employers featured, along with students at different stages of their degree, and Imperial alumni reflecting on their career journeys so far.

Find out more about the Quick Guides below.

Careers Success for First Years

With an increasingly competitive job market, our First Year Quick Guide will help you with ideas on how you can stand out from the crowd, making yourself into an outstanding candidate for graduate jobs from your first year at Imperial. The Guide includes:

• Interviews with top graduate recruiters on what they look for in graduates
• Advice and useful tips from current students and alumni based on their success
• Actions that you can take to enhance your CV by starting early in your first year
• Information and resources that you can use to help you with your future career plan

A Quick Guide to Career Decision Making

The Quick Guide to Career Decision Making looks at four steps to choosing the career for you and offers the chance for you to listen to advice from Imperial students, alumni and top employers.  The Quick Guide covers the following:

• How to make considered career decisions and questions to ask yourself when starting out 
• Researching occupations and opportunities
• Making career decisions that are right for you - with links to useful decision making tools
• Action planning and the next steps to take

Quick Guide to Career Decision Making

 

Other Quick Guides

Don’t forget that the Careers Service also has several other Quick Guides – on CVs, covering letters, interviews, and networking – supplementing a whole host of online resources, including a new section providing information to help you research occupations and job sectors, downloadable handouts and guides on subjects such as applications, interviews, and assessment centres, and online copies of Careers Service publications.