Career research and planning

Resources

Career planning websites

• Prospects Planner is a good web based tool that can match your skills, personality and interests to hundreds of potential careers.
• The Prospects website also offers a wealth of information on career planning and job hunting, as well as profiling many different careers with advice on how to get into them.

Information Room resources

The career research resources listed below are all availaible in our Information Rooms on the Streatham and Tremough Campuses, open to students and recent graduates. Our information staff can help you locate relevant information. We offer free printing of any careers-related material, and reference materials can be photocopied at for a small charge.

Giveaway materials

Careers Magazines - We hold general and specific career magazines covering most types of work, and some targeted at graduates with disabilities and students from ethnic minorities.

Reference files

• Occupational and Employer Files - Arranged by occupational sector, these include details on job sectors and categories, and include Occupational Profiles: with salary scales, entry criteria and vacancy sources for hundreds of occupational areas. Plus paper copies of all the information sent to us by employers.
• ‘Your degree…what next?’ - Career Options using Your Degree

Reference books

We hold over 200 books on making applications, taking psychometric tests, accepting job offers, post graduate study and funding, gap year information, working abroad, advertising, media, law and much more. To look at any of our books, please ask in reception ain the Career Zone in Reed Mews. Our books are searchable via the Main Library Catalogue. To view a full list of our reference books via the catalogue insert 'Careers Collection' under 'keyword'.

Software

Adult Directions - Career and skills matching tool. This can be accessed via a computer in the Information Room or online via login. Please ask staff at Reed Mews for login information.

Employer directories

If you’re looking for a list of hundreds of mainstream employers, we hold a variety of directories, free for you to take away. Stocks are limited, but reference copies are always available.

The following directories are available online:

• Prospects
• TARGETjobs series
• Inside Careers
• Best Companies

Self help sheets

• I've no idea what I want to do
• I'm looking for a graduate level job  
• Job hunting in the national press (.pdf)