Careers
| The University Careers Service |
The University's Careers Service can help you understand how to make effective career decisions and prepare for careers which will satisfy your ambitions and use your talents. It offers a high quality integrated guidance, information and vacancy service for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University and all students are strongly encouraged to use its facilities.
In today's competitive world, it is important that you begin to focus early on in your degree on options for after you graduate. This has the advantage that you give yourself enough time to manage and pace yourself through the process whilst you are studying.
Whilst you are at University there is much you can do to develop your employability both inside and outside of your studies. History itself is regarded by many employers as being an excellent subject in which to develop many transferable skills – for example critical and analytical ability, the expertise to write clearly and concisely, the ability to reach an informed judgement from diverse and complex information and skill in giving presentations. These will be valued together with experiences you will gain in other settings, most likely from work experience and involvement in student activities and events and facilities offered by the Careers Service.
| Careers Service Support |
Students in the Department of History have access at any stage of their course, to the support offered by the University Careers Service, which is based in the Careers Information Centre in the Western Bank Library.
In addition to sessions which will be delivered by the Careers Services in the department, the range of help available includes:
- The Careers Service website:
www.shef.ac.uk/careers - Take away leaflets on a variety of issues including career planning, making applications, job search and interview preparation e.g. Briefing Sheets Series.
- Access to a range of reference materials e.g. on occupations, employers, postgraduate study, career management skills.
- Individual guidance interviews to discuss personal career plans.
- An email advice service, which can be accessed through the student pages on the Careers Service website:
www.shef.ac.uk/careers/students - Access to a range of careers related computer programmes and employer videos.
- Careers Service events and workshops, as well as employer presentations:
www.shef.ac.uk/careers/events - Assistance from the Student Jobs and Work Experience team in obtaining part-time work during the term-time, as well as vacation employment and year long placements. They are based in the Student Jobshop in the Student Union building or see the website:
www.shef.ac.uk/careers/studentjobs - Access to vacancy information via the website:
www.shef.ac.uk/careers/vacancies/
For brief enquires a Careers Adviser is available in the Careers Information Centre each weekday during term time (and on a more limited basis in the vacations) from 10 - 1 and from 2 – 4.15pm. If appropriate, you can arrange a longer individual appointment with Judy Everett, the designated Careers Adviser for the Department of History. She can be contacted through the Careers Service reception Tel: 0114 222 0910.