Graduate Career Handbook

Introduction


PART I: YOUR CAREER CHOICE


1. Your career decision
2. Yours skills and knowledge
3. Your career hopes and ambitions
4. Personality at work
5. Work experience
6. Overcoming obstacles
7. Under pressure - improve your stress fitness


PART II: LOOKING AT GRADUATE JOBS AND EMPLOYERS


8. Graduate jobs in the twenty-first century - the big picture
9. So, what is a graduate job?
10. Organizational culture and climate
11. Choosing your first employer
12. Your employment rights at work


PART III: KEY STEPS TOWARDS GETTING THE JOB YOU WANT


13. Secrets of graduate recruitment and selection - the inside information
14. Jobhunting - how and where to look
15. Making applications
16. Build a brilliant CV
17. How to succeed at interview
18. Assessment centres
19. How to succeed at selection tests
20. Accepting the offer and clinching the deal
21. Starting your new job