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Postgraduates

Want it in a nutshell? Watch our 3 minute video on careers support for postgraduates.

How can we help?

Think Careers Services are just for undergraduates? Think again.

We’ve specialised in helping postgraduates with their careers for over 10 years, and recognise that you may have very different experience and ambitions from undergraduates.

This section of our website:

  • looks at careers from a postgraduate perspective
  • highlights resources and services developed just for postgraduates
  • puts our general graduate advice and resources into a postgraduate context

We may be seen as experts in undergraduate careers, but many Careers Service staff are also postgraduates or mid-career changers, and we have experienced a wide range of careers. We can’t promise to be experts in your postgraduate specialism, but we can help with our own specialism – supporting your career.

Essential downloads

Where do I start? Key resources for postgraduates

What's new, what's on? Find out how you can keep up to date with all our news and events for postgraduates

Latest Vacancies Did you know? We advertise more vacancies per month in CareersLink than the main national graduate vacancy websites. Find out more and search for vacancies through CareersLink. 

Postgraduate career talks online Missed the postgraduate talks? They’re available all year round through our slidecasts - slides with audio soundtrack.

A quarter of our students are postgraduates and a quarter of our individual appointments are with our postgraduates.
We provide targeted careers advice and resources for postgraduates
Our dedicated Academic Careers website
Visit An Academic Career website

Postgraduate careers advice

Will your postgraduate degree give you an advantage with employers? A postgraduate degree can be a real advantage in the workplace, but only if you know how to sell the benefit to an employer. Find out how to avoid being caught in the over-qualified trap.

Got a specific careers issue you're trying to solve? We realise you're most likely to come to the Careers Service website when you need help with a specific careers issue. In this section we provide help with some frequently asked postgraduate careers questions.

Aiming for an academic career? We've developed an award-winning website for aspiring academics, whether undergraduates, postgraduates or post-doctoral staff. Find out more about academic careers, whether this is the career for you and how to get in.

Pathways: Career options for researchers Our annual event in June gives postgraduate researchers the chance to talk to people in a wide range of academic and non-academic careers - all with research degrees. Find out what your future could hold.

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