CAREER PLANNING PACK FOR ENGLISH STUDENTS

This pack will be made available to all students via web CT and will be publicised throughout the School of English. The pack will be organised in the following sections:

Front page for the pack

  • Welcome to the pack and an acknowledgement to the H.E. Academy
  • General introduction to ‘Options for English Graduates’
  • An overview of what is contained in the pack
  • Suggestions of what to do next

Career Planning

  • ‘Options with a Degree in English’
  • Case studies of English graduates from the Prospects Website
  • Career Planning Handout (Doc – Career Planning handout 2)
  • Career Skills Website -
  • ‘Making a Start’ workbook (University of Sheffield Workbook PDF File - MakingaStart)
  • Employability Skills Handout (Doc – Employability)

Finding out more about types of work

  • Case studies providers from our speakers (Waiting for these from speakers)
  • Occupational Profiles for Popular careers areas e.g. Arts Administrator, Bookseller, Newspaper Journalist, Advertising Accounts Executive, Academic Librarian, Programme Researcher- broadcasting, Writer (Prospects Website - PDF Files)
  • Skillset – Jobs in the Film Industry
  • Briefing Sheet – Researching Types of Work (Prospects PDF file)
  • ‘Beyond 9 to 5 – flexible working’ (Prospects PDF file – Beyond9to5)

Weblinks

  • List of useful websites for English students (Doc- EnglishWebsitesJan07)
  • First Destinations of English graduates from the University of Sheffield

(PDF Files – ELLdestinations03 / 04 / 05: LITdestinations03/ 04/ 05)

  • Graduate Prospects – Labour market information – ‘What do graduates do?’
  • Links to Prospects sector briefings for related fields e.g. Advertising and PR; Broadcast Film and Interactive Video; Creative and Cultural Industries; Publishing.
  • Quality Assurance Agency – Subject Benchmark Statement for English
  • HE Academy English Subject Centre Handout – Famous English Graduates
  • Student Employability Profile – English (PDF File - StudentEmpGuide)
  • HE Academy - ‘Investigating the longer term employability of Humanities Graduates’ (English Subject Centre PDF File - EmployabilityHumanitiesGrads)
  • Report – ‘The English Degree and Graduate Careers (English Subject Centre PDF File - GradCareers)

Careers Talks On-Line

Listen to a range of short presentations on the following topics:

  • Where do I start? – outlines your options after graduating and suggests what you can do to prepare (9 minutes)
  • CVs and covering letters – looks at the content and format of CVs and covering letters (8 minutes)
  • Effective application forms – considers the key principles involved in writing applications (11 minutes)
  • Understanding interviews Part 1 – helps you to prepare for interviews
  • Understanding interviews Part 2 – provides tips on what to expect at interview and how to make a good impression (11 minutes)
  • Taking time out – considers the implications and helps you to plan (8 minutes)

Video Clips

  • English Graduates and Entrepreneurship – ‘A Way with Words’. These video clips profile English graduates running their own businesses

Interactive exercises.

  • The Windmills Programme – Virtual Career Coach
  • Career Skills Interactive website –

Postgraduate Study

  • Further study section of Prospects website
  • Graduate Teacher Training Registry
  • Further study undertaken by recent English graduates from the University of Sheffield (PDF Files – ELLdestinations 03 /04/ 05; LITdestinations 03/ 04/ 05)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council

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