Careers Advisory Service

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Careers Advisory Service

• David Henderson
• Careers Adviser
• d.m.henderson_at_durham.ac.uk

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Contents

• Options with degree
• Generating career ideas
• Internships and work experience
• Timetable for action
• Support through Careers Advisory Service

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Using your degreeoptions

• Graduate schemes
• Accelerated professional scheme with strong
  management and leadership focus
• Opportunities in public and private sectors
• Careers linked to Anthropology
• Opportunities with SMEs
• Postgraduate Study
• Year Out

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Careers linked to Anthropology

• Exploring opportunities linked to specific areas
  of anthropology (medical, biological, social
  cultural, environmental, developmental,
  bioarchaeological, material, visual etc)
• Challenging to work as an Anthropologist...acade
  mic/research career recquiring further study.
  Opportunities with universities, research
  institutes (e.g. Health Strategy Board Wolfson
  Institute, Amazonian Anthropology Research Group
  Oxford), museums (Pitt Rivers Museum, Hunterian
  Museum)
• Applications of Anthropology to broader career
  areas (e.g. Health Care, Social Care, Media,
  Third Sector, International Development, Social
  and Political Research, Heritage)

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Career options...

• International Development
• International Organisations
• United Nations Development Programme (Millennium
  Development Goals)
• World Bank opportunities for Anthropologists,
  focus on social development
• World Health Organisation
• Internship opportunities (masters degree plus
  language)
• 31st January closing date for organisations
  highlighted above
• Full list of UN internship opportunities Youth
  at the UN (http//www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/inde
  x.html)
• Government
• FCO Entry via faststream but also open
  competition e.g. Operational Officer (FCO
  placement scheme 21st Nov)
• DfID strong link to Millennium Development
  Goals, small number of vacancies and entry via
  DfID Technical Development faststream. Relevant
  postgraduate qual (including Anthropology) plus
  at least 12months development experience

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Career options...

• Opportunities in range of areas conflict,
  education, health, governance, rural livelihoods
  and social development
• NGOs
• Anthropological study relevant to development
  issues e.g. food culture, forced migration etc
• NGOs require professional expertise engineers,
  administrators, researchers, information
  managers, accountants, volunteer managers,
  project managers, marketing executives, press
  officers, HR officers, campaign officers etc
• Experience via internships and volunteering e.g.
  People and Planet, VSO, Development in Action
• Target NGOs that reflect your interest
  (focus/location)
• Very few graduate opportunities occasionally
  large organizations like Oxfam, Red Cross,
  Christian Aid will recruit graduates.
• Plethora of online resources World Service
  Enquiry/BOND/Experiencedevelopment/WANGO
• http//www.sussex.ac.uk/cdec/int_dev.php

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Career options

• Political and Social Research
• Public Sector
• Civil Service Faststream
• NGDP Local Authority
• Management opportunities but policy research
  implementation key
• Research/policy development posts available via
  individual departments but also consider...
• Government Social Research (GSR)
• Office for National Statistics (ONS) recruit
  social researchers in addition to economists,
  statisticians
• Department of Health Operational Researchers
• Healthcare Commission Analysts
• Research Groups/Think Tanks/Public Affairs
  Consultancies
• National Centre for Social Research
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

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Career options...

• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Wellcome Trust
• Social Research Association (SRA)
• Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR)
  broad remit including health, social reform,
  crime, environment etc
• NGOs/Charities Voluntary Organisations
• Refer to Directory of Social Research
  Organisations
• www.w4mp.com good starting point in respect of
  political research and campaigning opportunities
• http//www.charitypeople.com/
• Market Research Consultancies
• Greater focus on collection, management and
  analysis of data more quantitative than
  qualitative

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Career options...

• Media
• Journalism Newspaper, Broadcast, specialist
  press e.g. Anthropology Today (currently seeking
  volunteers)
• Publishing
• Film, Television Radio documentary film
  makers e.g. Touch Productions, BBC World Service
  Trust (Volunteering opportunities), National
  Geographic, News Agencies (e.g. Reuters)
• www.visualanthropology.net useful resources
• www.dfgdocs.com British Documentary website
• Digital Media
• Advertising Marketing
• Communication Public Relations, Press Officer,
  Communications Planner

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Career options...

• Health Social Care
• Policy driven research primary care trusts,
  local authorities, central govt depts, European
  Commission, NGOs, World Health Organisation,
  research centres (e.g. The Medical Committee,
  Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research).
  Difficult to work as a Medical Anthropologist
  without a research degree.
• Health Social Care professions Health
  Communication, Nursing, Health Workers, Social
  Work, Probationary Officer, Community Development
  Worker, Support Worker
• Opportunities in public and voluntary sector e.g.
  Family Planning Association, Public Health
  Observatory, Refugee Support
• Human Resource Management
• Key function of all organisations but
  particularly large, multi-national and
  inter-cultural businesses
• Specific opportunities linked to diversity

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Career options...

• Education
• Academia research based career linked to
  Anthropology (PhD followed by contract research
  posts and hopefully a lectureship!)
• Teaching FE sector but also TEFL and community
  education
• Culture, Heritage and Tourism
• Museums/Exhibitions Education/Exhibition
  Officer, Press Officer
• Arts Regional Development Agencies, Arts
  Council
• Ethical tourism operators, GAP Year projects,
  Visit Britain, Conservation Groups, Environmental
  Organisations
• Town Planning/Regeneration
• Local Authorities
• English Partnerships
• Housing Associations e.g. Housing Corporation
• Ethical Careers
• Difficult to define anything from Fair-trade to
  CSR in a large corporate organisation. Good
  starting point www.ethicalcareers.org

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Career options...

• The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
  www.therai.org.uk
• www.jobs.ac.uk (academic positions)
• www.h-net.org/jobs (academic positions)
• The Society for Applied Anthropology
  (www.sfaa.net)
• www.earthworks-jobs.com
• American Anthropological Association
  (http//careercenter.aaanet.org)
• European Association of Social Anthropologists
  (www.easaonline.org)
• Association of Social Anthropologist of the UK
  and Commonwealth (www.theasa.org)
• Your Degree in Anthropology (www.prospects.ac.uk)
  
• Society for Medical Anthropology
  (www.medanthro.net/)
• Academic jobs (www.jobs.ac.uk)

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Employers always look for graduates from specific
degree subjects

• Over two third of all vacancies advertised are
  open to graduates from ANY degree subject

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Even More PossibilitiesCareers linked to
interests and strengths?

• Retail Management
• Sales
• Community Youth Services
• Management Consultancy
• PR, Marketing Advertising
• Administration
• HR Recruitment
• Finance/Accountancy
• Law
• Property
• Project Management
• NGOs/Voluntary Sector
• Teaching
• Logistics Supply Chain Management
• IT/Telecommunications
• Prospects Website excellent career resources
  (job profiles, sector profiles)
• (www.prospects.ac.uk)
• Career Employer folders, recruitment/sector
  directories, alumni employer contacts

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Postgraduate Study

• Opportunity to advance subject knowledge in
  specialist area PhD, MPhil, Masters (taught or
  research)
• Opportunity to study something unrelated to
  degree subject conversion course, vocational
  graduate degree
• Apply to more than one institution. No central
  application system with a few exceptions (law
  conversion, accelerated medicine, teaching)
• Apply in final year (some courses have set
  closing dates)
• Funding major issue research councils main
  source but funding occasionally available through
  departments and institutions e.g. Durham
  Fellowship
• KTP (www.dur.ac.uk/ktp/graduates/)

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Postgraduate Study...

• Academic study
• If you are considering a research based career
• Medical, Forensic, Evolutionary, Socio-cultural,
  Environmental, Ethnobotany, Visual
• Relevant vocational study
• Environmental Management, Social Work,
  International Development, Heritage Management,
  Medicine, Health Communication, Journalism
• Unrelated vocational study
• Law, Human Resource Management, Teaching,
  Marketing, Publishing, Business Finance, IT

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Generating Ideas!

• My Potential
• Windmills Virtual Career Coach
• Prospects Planner
• Careers Advisory Service website
• Career Choice Self-Awareness
• Employment, work experience, volunteering and
  internships excellent means of researching
  careers and improving self awareness!

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Generating Ideas

• Academic interests - relating modules to career
  ideas
• Personal qualities/skills leadership,
  communication, organisation, languages
• Personal values and motivation salary, work
  life balance, making a difference, travel
• Working environment size of organisation,
  remit, location, employers values (CSR)
• Employment sector environment, property,
  public, voluntary etc
• Professional development quality of training,
  rotational scheme, professional qualifications
• First career choice not your last!!
• Not necessarily just one perfect job career
  choice also concerns other factors!

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Generating Ideas

• Durham destination data
• Collected 6 months after graduation
• Useful way to research careers and employers
• Information on further study
• Prospects What can I do with

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What is an Internship?

• a structured programme of work experience
• often salaried but not always!
• normally lasting between four and twelve weeks
• usually offered by companies which take on large
  numbers of graduates (e.g. retailers, FMCG,
  investment banks, accountants, professional
  services, IT firms)
• Available in a range of career areas (commerce,
  finance, marketing, HR, supply chain etc)
• Opportunities also available in specialist areas
  less likely to be salaried (advertising, PR,
  publishing, journalism, health care)

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What is an Internship?

• employers offer internships as part of their
  overall graduate recruitment strategy.
• primarily for penultimate year students
• the application process is normally the same as
  for a graduate position and they are highly
  competitive.
• generally advertised from November until March
  although some have closing dates as early as
  November/December.

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Why Should I consider an Internship?

• A degree is not enough
• Overcrowded graduate job market need to stand
  out
• Evidence of transferable skills
• Specific career experience
• Commercial experience
• Insight/Career research
• Opportunity to do something different
• References
• Networking/Contacts
• Confidence Personal Development Self
  Awareness
• Route to a graduate job
• NecessaryBanking?

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Skills Related to Anthropology

• Subject-specific
• Grasp, analyse, evaluate and deploy
  subject-specific concepts and arguments
• Locate, understand, assess and utilise pertinent
  sources
• Interpret and criticise relevant texts
• Employ effective research techniques and
  methodology
• General Skills
• Clear and succinct self-expression
• Comprehend complex ideas and theories
• Use reasoned argument to support opinion
• Logical approach to problem solving
• Effective use of evidence and information
• Intellectual Flexibility/Adaptability/time
  management
• Leading participating in discussions
• Strong presentation skills
• Support your academic based transferable skills
  with that which you have gained from employment,
  internships, voluntary work, societal
  opportunities, interests and travel.

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Alternatives to Internships

• Shell STEP programme (http//www.step.org.uk/)
• 8 week project based employment with a small or
  medium sized company. Training salary in region
  of 200 per week
• Social Science Workplace Experience programme
  (www.stepenterprise.co.uk)
• Informal work experience
• Speculatively approach organisations identify
  appropriate person
• Networking
• Speaking to professionals about their job role
• Volunteering
• Doesnt have to be career relevant to be useful
  evidence of transferable skills. In some career
  areas (e.g. health social care professions,
  third sector, teaching, conservation, broadcast
  media) volunteering essential.
• Part-time employment
• www.durham.ac.uk/careers-advice/vacancies

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Useful Websites Work Experience

• www.work-experience.org
• http//www.e4s.co.uk/
• www.talentladder.com  
• www.internjobs.com
• www.step.org.uk  
• www.get.hobsons.co.uk/advice/work-experience
• http//targetjobs.co.uk/graduate-jobs/
• www.insidecareers.co.uk
• www.gradjobs.co.uk  
• Please also refer to the excellent opportunities
  posted on the CAS website
• www.dur.ac.uk/careers-advice/vacancies   
• Dont forget the speculative approach not
  all job sectors will offer structured work
  experience!

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Timetable for action

• Penultimate Year
• Michaelmas
• Career research
• Self-awareness (personality type, strengths,
  qualities, interests)
• Fine tuning CV/building up evidence of key
  competencies
• Attending career events (fairs, employer
  presentations, skills events)
• http//www.dur.ac.uk/careers-advice/forthcomingcar
  eerevents/
• Applying for internships
• Researching work experience opportunities
• Epiphany
• Applying for internships
• Discovery fair

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Timetable for action

• Final Year
• Michaelmas
• Applying for graduate schemes (some closing dates
  as early as October/November!)
• Employer Information Fair
• Researching postgraduate courses
• Epiphany
• Continued application to graduate schemes
• Interviews and assessment centres
• Applying for postgraduate study
• Easter
• Graduate jobs with SMEs
• Non-graduate jobs/speculative job
  applications/recruitment agencies

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A degree guarantees a good job

• A degree alone is not enough. Employers are
  looking for more than just technical skills and
  knowledge of a degree subject. They particularly
  value skills such as communication, teamworking
  and problem solving. Job applicants who can
  demonstrate they have developed these skills will
  have a real advantage
• Digby Jones Director General, Confederation of
  British Industry

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How Can CAS Help

• Individual appointments with a Careers
• Adviser can be booked online
• Quick Queries 20 mins
• Applications, CVs, Interviews 30 mins
• Guidance Appointments 45 mins (referral
  required)

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How Can CAS Help

• Resources - Information Room (Careers, further
  study, employers, vol work, vacancies, opps
  abroad)
• Employer and graduate contacts
• GATs (Graduate Aptitude Tests)
• Practice Assessment Centre
• Presentations CVs, Application Form, Interview
  Techniques etc www.durham.ac.uk/careers-advice
• Employer led presentations
• Employment Fair/Work Experience Fair/Law Fair
• Skills workshops

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Careers Service Website
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Careers Advisory Service

• 49 New Elvet
• Open 10am 5pm
• Tel [phone]
• www.durham.ac.uk/careers-advice

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Your turn...Questions?

• ?

Thank you! d.m.henderson_at_durham.ac.uk