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Author(s): Sally Longson
ISBN(s): 9780415375917, 0203088417
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.42 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203088417 
ISBN 13: 9780415375917
Author: Sally Longson

Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfect detail – but for most, things are not nearly so simple. Armed with your hard-earned degree the possibilities and career paths lying before you are limitless, and the number of choices you suddenly have to make can seem bewildering. Life After a Business and Administrative Studies Degree has been written specifically to help students currently studying, or who have recently graduated, make informed choices about their future. It will be a source of invaluable advice and wisdom to business graduates, covering such topics as: Identifying career paths that interest you Seeking out an opportunity that matches your skills and aspirations Staying motivated and pursuing your goals Networking and self-promotion Making the transition from scholar to worker The Life After University series of books are more than simple ‘career guides’. They are unique in taking a holistic approach to career advice – recognising the increasing view that, although a successful working life is vitally important, other factors can be just as essential to happiness and fulfilment. They are the indispensable handbooks for students considering their future direction.

Life After Business and Administrative Studies A practical guide to life after your degree 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Decisions, Decisions …
Looking At the Next Few Months
Wait a Minute. What’s Important to You?
What Happens Now?
How Does Your Career Fit Into Your Life?
Summary Action Points
Chapter 2: Creating Your Career
Ten Questions to Consider
What Are Your Passions and Motivators?
How Far Do You Want to Climb Up the Career Ladder?
What Skills Do You Want to Use In Your Career?
What About Knowledge?
What Role Do You Want to Have?
What Do You Want to Achieve and Consequently Contribute to an Organisation’s Mission?
How Hungry Are You to Make These Results Happen?
What Sector Do You Want to Work In?
Are There Specific Products or Areas of Expertise You Want to Work With?
What Sort of Clients and Customers Do You Want to Work for?
Who Do You Want to Work for?
What Sort of Working Environment Do You Want to Work In?
Building On Your Research Skills
What Would Be of Key Importance to You In Your Future Career?
Moving Your Self-Awareness Forward
Summary Action Points
Chapter 3: Next Steps to Achieving Your Goals
What Could Your Next Steps Be?
What Are Your Employment Options?
Temping … the Perfect Way In , or a Mug’s Game?
Studied Part-Time While Working?
‘I Want to Work Abroad!’
Going It Alone
To Be … a Post-Graduate or Not?
Short Courses May Be Just the Ticket
Time Out for Golden Sands, Sea, Sun …
Unemployment …
Give Your Life a Turbo-Boost!
Summary Action Points
Chapter 4: Connecting With Your Network: The World’s a Network
The Benefits of Networking
Professional Organisations
Do It Successfully
What About Websites?
Business Coaches
Networking Is for Life!
Summary Action Points
Chapter 5: Hunting Out the Right Opportunity
How Important Is the ‘Where?’ to You?
Finding Suitable Employment Opportunities
Moving Things Forward … Do You, Don’t You?
Be Alert to Opportunity
Summary Action Points
Chapter 6: Proving Yourself: From Scholar to Worker
Making the Psychological Switch
The Extra-Curricular Approach
Who Are You?
The Power of Work Experience
What Behaviours and Practices Do You Need to Elicit to Make Your ‘It’ Happen?
Start Behaving and Immersing Yourself In the Field You Want to Be In
Temping Your Way to a Career
Learn from Others You Deem to Be Successful. How Do They Do It?
Summary Action Points
Chapter 7: Applying Some Self-Promotion
Do You Want to Stay Where You Are?
Submit an Outstanding Application, Not Just an Excellent One
Get Physical
Put Yourself In the Recruiter ’s Shoes
Do Your Homework On the Application Process
Get Practice In Tests
Five Golden Rules to Kick Off
Make CVs Personal and Relevant to the Company You’re Writing to
What Happens After Submitting Your Application?
I Don’t Just Give 100 Per Cent. I Give 110 Per Cent
Look At Your Potential: Where Do You Want to Be?
Prepare to Show Your Commercial Awareness
Show How You Can Benefit the Company
Personal Fit With the Team
Go Into the Recruitment Process Prepared to Have Fun
The Assessment Centre
Attending an Interview
Handling Weaknesses
Offered the Post!
Summary Action Points
Chapter 8: What’s Stopping You?
Don’t Forget What You Went to University for!
Dig Deeper Into Your Resources
Strengthen Your Resolve
Use Those Problem-Solving Skills
Focus On What You Can Change
What Practical Steps Can You Take?
Common Concerns
Going Down the Self-Employed Route
Learn from Failure
Summary Action Points
Chapter 9: Moving On … Your Future
First, Though, You Need to Walk Before You Can Run
Make an Impact!
Studying for Professional Qualifications or a Part-Time Post-Graduate Degree?
It’s Not Working Out!
So What Happens Next?
Getting Promoted
Continue to Train and Learn
Leaving Your Current Employer
So You’ve Set Up Your Own Business and Want to Go for Growth?
Flexibility and Adaptability Go a Long Way to Making the Most of Life
Summary Action Points
Chapter 10: Here’s to Life!
How Balanced Is Your Life?
What Roles Do You Want to Play?
Use Your Resources Effectively
Don’t Forget the Wild and Wacky
Don’t Become a Robot
Looking Forward
Summary Action Points
Chapter: Further Reading
Careers Related
Business and Finance Related
Recruitment
Moving Up the Career Ladder
Working Abroad
Self-Employment
Gap Year/Time Out
Further Study
Career and Life Success
Learning Skills
Managing Others
Building Financial Bases
Life Related
Useful Addresses and Further In Formation
General
UK Regional Graduate Websites
Work Experience and Initiatives, and Voluntary Work
Further Study
Post-Graduate Study and Research
Self-Employment
Job Sites
UK
Fair Trade
Specific Help
Protecting Your Creativity
Professional Organisations and Trade Associations

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