How to guides: a postgraduate perspective
Much of the Careers Service website is applicable to both undergraduates and postgraduates. However, these 'How to...' guides aim to:
- answer specifically postgraduate questions;
- point out where postgraduate careers may differ from undergraduate careers;
- highlight careers resources and actions more appropriate for postgraduates;
- help you put your postgraduate experience into perspective for potential employers.
How to guides
Explore - expand your options and stretch yourself
- Explore your strengths and add to them
- Explore postgraduate career options in person
- Explore postgraduate career options online
- Find jobs for postgraduates which are not advertised
- Find adverts for jobs outside academia
- Find additional funding during your postgraduate degree
Connect - build and get the best from your network
- Make the most of careers events as a postgraduate
- Find potential career contacts
- Network without hassling your contacts
Reflect - recognise your skills
Communicate - get your message across to different audiences
- Influence others
- Communicate to non-academic audiences
- Communicate your research to academic audiences
- Market your postgraduate degree to employers outside academia
- Write CVs and applications as a postgraduate
- Get through interviews and assessment as a postgraduate
Persevere - learn from setbacks and keep going
Feedback, or suggestions for a new 'How to...' guide?
If you are a University of Manchester postgraduate and have any feedback on these guides, or suggestions for a new postgraduate careers 'How to...' guide which you think should be added to this section, we'd love to hear from you. Email us at careers@manchester.ac.uk, with a subject line of 'Postgraduate Careers Website'
