DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER IDEAS
Building your occupational awareness It can sometimes be useful to look at what other Oxford students have done after completing their degrees to get a better understanding of the breadth of choices open to you. To go beyond the outline provided here, use the Careers Service’s webpages on ‘The Graduate Outcomes Survey’ to see the early-career destinations for Oxford graduates from 2012 to 2018. Further study
Just under 20% of graduates choose further study and the Careers Service provides support and advice on this: From finding courses, to assisting with applications, and advising on potential funding sources or studying abroad. Turn to the Further Study advice for more information on options and planning for further study. Consider carefully what benefits you hope to gain from undertaking another degree, against the time and costs required. Although further study is a prerequisite for some careers, and highly desirable for others, for many careers it’s unnecessary and may make no difference to either your entry level or starting salary.
Further study
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19% Developing portfolio/ volunteering
61%
3%
www.careers.ox.ac.uk/further-study
Occupational sectors
Careers are often labelled according to their industry sector, and the latter section of this Guide provides short industry introductions and company listings covering over 21 major industry sectors that our leavers enter. There are many more – nearly 50 – detailed briefings on our website, covering all the sectors in this Guide and more. Briefings usually include sections such as: Types of job. Entry points. Skills and experience. Getting a job. External resources.
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www.careers.ox.ac.uk
9%
Unemployed and looking for work
Paid work for employer/ self-employment/ running own business
8% Not available (travel/ caring for someone/ retired/something else)
Source: Graduate Outcomes Survey 2017–2018 (data collected 15 months after graduation)
Students who go into work after graduation, work in a wide range of sectors such as: Education Health and social care IT and computing Government and public services Banking and investment
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