Careers Service

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 academic jobs
• 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

• Reflect - make sense of what you've done

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

• Recover from setbacks

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'