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
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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
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‘Options with a Degree in English’
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Options_with_your_subjec
t/Your_degree_in_english/Where_to_start/p!eaLbijX
Case studies of English graduates from the Prospects Website
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Options_with_your_subjec
t/Your_degree_in_english/Case_studies/p!efbLkmp
Career Planning Handout (Doc – Career Planning handout 2)
Career Skills Website - www.careers.dept.shef.ac.uk/cms/
‘Making a Start’ workbook (University of Sheffield Workbook PDF File MakingaStart)
Employability Skills Handout (Doc – Employability)
Finding out more about types of work
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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 www.skillset.org/film/jobs/
Briefing Sheet – Researching Types of Work (Prospects PDF file)
‘Beyond 9 to 5 – flexible working’ (Prospects PDF file – Beyond9to5)
Weblinks
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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?’
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/What_do_graduates_do__
2007/p!eaLidbl
Links to Prospects sector briefings for related fields e.g. Advertising and PR;
Broadcast Film and Interactive Video; Creative and Cultural Industries; Publishing.
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_job_sectors/p!ebf
klk
Quality Assurance Agency – Subject Benchmark Statement for English
www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/honours/english.asp
HE Academy English Subject Centre Handout – Famous English Graduates
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/resources/careers/grads.php
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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:
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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)
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/students/talks.html
Video Clips
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English Graduates and Entrepreneurship – ‘A Way with Words’. These video clips
profile English graduates running their own businesses
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/resources/careers/enterprise.php
Interactive exercises.
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The Windmills Programme – Virtual Career Coach
www.windmillsprogramme.com
Career Skills Interactive website – www.careers.dept.shef.ac.uk/cms/
Postgraduate Study
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Further study section of Prospects website
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Postgrad_study_main_me
nu/p!eFpclp
Graduate Teacher Training Registry www.gttr.ac.uk
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 www.ahrc.ac.uk
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