Brilliant Graduate Career Handbook

The brand new 3rd edition of one of the UK’s bestselling graduate career guides that’s sold over 4,100 copies.

Providing essential, life-changing guidance to help students get started on their graduate career, this indispensable guide helps readers discover how to make sense of their opportunities, weigh up their options and how to make the right choices.

Packed with vital information and powerful ideas, tactics and strategies, it coaches readers in the positive mindset required to land a brilliant career. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new content on managing the transition from student to graduate; updated data, stats and examples; and a full glossary of terms. There is also a section help tutors with teaching employability and career skills.

• Part 1: What’s Out There
• 1 Accessing job opportunities 
• 2 The graduate labour market 
• 3 Labour market information: analysis of what graduates do 
• 4 The global graduate 
• 5 Graduate training schemes 
• 6 Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and self-employment 
• 7 Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application 
• Part 2: How to Make the Most of What’s Out There
• 8 Knowing who you are: skills, interests and values 
• 9 Work experience: making it purposeful 
• 10  Dates and deadlines: your timeline for action 
• 11  Making applications: getting past the first post 
• 12  Succeeding in selection 
• 13  My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters