| PEOPLE RESOURCES
Try contacting the following groups of people for help
with your career planning and development.
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Your Careers
Service
You still have access to careers information and/or guidance
after graduation from your own Careers Service or a Careers Service
near your home. The Prospects web site gives full details of facilities offered
to graduates by all higher education institutions in the UK and
EIRE.
Dublin
Institute of Technology University
of Limerick Trinity
College Dublin University
of Ulster
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Alumni
Graduates from your university or college may be willing to discuss
their own careers or offer work experience - check whether there is
a formal network.
University of Ulster Alumni
Email: alumni@ulster.ac.uk
Tel: 028 9036 8278
Dublin Institute of Technology Alumni
Email: alumni@dit.ie
Tel: +353 1 402 3435
Trinity College Dublin Alumni
Email: alumni@tcd.ie
Tel: : +353 1 608 1448
University of Limerick Alumni
Email: ulaa@ul.ie
Tel: +353 61 202475
See also section on Personal network
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Career mentor
A career mentor is ideally someone who is familiar with your personal
circumstances, career area and knows you well. Some professional institutions
and organisations appoint mentors formally, but this could be an informal
arrangement.
See also section on Professional contacts
and Personal network
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Family and friends
Friends of parents and acquaintances in your home town may all be
able to help you with information, gaining work experience or further
contacts.
Add them to your Personal network
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Graduate Careerline
This is a UK telephone helpline open to graduates within three years
of graduation - just phone 0870 770 2477 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays 3-8pm to talk to higher education Careers Advisers. You
will pay for the call, but the guidance is free of charge.
Note that calls could be expensive from the Republic of Ireland.
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Mentors
Make use of any mentors that have been appointed through courses,
professional institutions or employers.
See also section on Personal network
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Personal network
Keep note of all the people that you know who have a link to a specific
profession or employer to start your own personal network. Ask them
if they can refer you to other contacts to extend your knowledge.
Note names and contact details in your personal organiser for easy
referral and note the original contact to track your network.
See also sections on Alumni, Family
and friends, Mentors, Professional
contacts and University / college tutors
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Professional contacts
Professional institutions often have graduate or junior members liaison
officers, who will be willing to advise on professional issues and
encourage attendance at regular meetings. You may need to be a member
of the institution to attend meetings (an excellent way to maintain
your subject knowledge, learn about current professional issues and
meet professionals of your subject area directly), which could be
particularly useful if you are thinking of making speculative applications
for a job.
See also section on Personal network
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Prospects
Graduate Interactive Web
Use the following features of the site:
Graduate CV Surgery: one-off chance to get a Careers Adviser's opinion
on a formatted CV
Graduate Forum: discuss your career thoughts with other graduates
online in the Forum, get their opinions and ideas
Graduate Questiontime: email your individual questions to Careers
Advisers
- University / college tutors
Former tutors may offer advice about your ideas where they are related
to your degree subject and particularly if you are considering postgraduate
study - they may have useful contacts. They will normally act as referees
for course and job applications, so make sure that they have a current
CV, that they know what you are applying for and that you ask permission
before giving their names.
See also section on Personal network.
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