Postgraduates

The Careers Service is experienced in helping postgraduates identify and act upon their most promising options, and is dedicated to offering a tailored and high-quality service to you, as a postgraduate, whether your requirements are precise or as yet uncertain. In practice, we find that most postgraduates benefit from a one-to-one discussion with a careers adviser about their current situation and future career plans.

Know what you want to do?

 

  • If you haven't done so already, research the career you have in mind on the Prospects website.
  • Search our vacancies and events database ABERcareers for relevant jobs. Whilst many employers, including small and medium-sized employers (SMEs), recruit on a year-round basis, some vacancies have closing dates as early as Christmas or Easter.
  • Make the most of the careers resources available to you - and make sure you get help on writing CVs, covering letters and application forms and preparing for interviews and assessment centres. We contribute workshops to the central Aberystwyth Researcher Programme and also run our own careers workshops and events.
  • Chat with a careers adviser about your career ideas and next steps. Appointments can be booked on ABERcareers or you can visit us at the Careers Hub, Hugh Owen Library.

Not sure what you want to do?

If you don't have any ideas, or are not sure, about what you want to do, don't panic; there's no absolutely right or wrong time to get started. The Careers Service is happy to help you.

  • Try out the on-line Prospects Planner for help in deciding what you might like to do. Have a look, too, at subject specific information for ideas of where your degree could take you.
  • Come and talk with a careers adviser as soon as possible so that you have plenty of time to think about your options and make a start on planning for your future.
  • Come along to our careers workshops and events, have a look at the events page on ABERcareers to see what is on offer.

See Contact Us for information on how to get in touch. Feel free to visit us or reach out to us at careers@aber.ac.uk