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DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER IDEAS B It’s important to consider which functional roles you might be most interested in. For some people, the function becomes their primary goal, and so remember that the same functional role can frequently be found in many diverse industries: Charities need IT specialists, marketers and HR managers as well as front line volunteers, fundraisers and policy makers. In the HR and recruiting industries, more graduates will take on account management, training or web-developer roles than become HR managers. Data analysts are needed as much in the advertising and retail sectors as in academic research, opportunities which you’d be interested in taking on. If you do not limit yourself by exclusively targeting industries that seem to have the right label, you may be surprised at the years later. For example: ] Would be journalists can learn valuable skills in a PR role in any sector, and by blogging. ] Considering a career in IT? IT roles now existing in virtually IT professional work outside the computing and IT sector. ] Consider local government alongside the civil service (Fast Stream). Sam Stoll Balliol College, BA Mathematics and Philosophy, 2013 Software Engineer, Ensoft "Look for companies that are happy to invest heavily in your training and long-term career. It’s a fast moving industry with new tools and technologies coming out all the time, so it’s important to keep spending time experimenting and learning." CHANGES IN DIRECTION It is also true that careers develop over time. Whatever direction you start out in does not tie you to that industry or function for life. It is quite natural for your ideas to develop as new opportunities present themselves. A change of career doesn’t mean wasted time: most of your skills will be transferable to other careers. Some graduates choose to gain specialist expertise through a graduate scheme in general management say, or marketing or accountancy, and use this as a stepping stone into an industry where graduate experience that is highly valued but which tends to be hard to come by as a new graduate entering directly into the alternative sector. this Guide (pp.56-168) to see the reality that shifts in career direction are quite common, and that even a radical change of direction is possible. The Careers Service only tracks leavers’ initial career directions with any accuracy. However, we have surveyed alumni ten years after leaving and this revealed that: ] On average alumni had worked for three employers since leaving Oxford. ] The sector that alumni worked in after ten years could be very different from the sector they initially entered. Service provides access for alumni to the majority of our events and services for life. We also have a Careers Adviser and strategies for managing career change. WHY DO SOME SECTORS SEEM SO VISIBLE AT <strong>OXFORD</strong>? Whether it’s the advertised listings in this Guide, company presentations on our termly Events calendar or sector specific careers fairs, you will probably notice recruiting firms within the four ‘City’ sectors are highly visible in Oxford. So why do Accountancy, Banking & Investment, Consultancy and Law firms stand out so much if they each account for only 3% to 5% of all the destinations of leavers? There are a few reasons for this apparent imbalance. ] In some sectors, such as Media, Retail, FMCG, and Energy, a few big organisations dominate – and many are already household names - think BBC; Google; John Lewis; Shell and Unilever. These companies don’t need to advertise their names to become known, and students find their graduate opportunities unaided. In contrast, large City firms can have significant graduate programmes but aren’t well known outside their field, so need to promote themselves more. ] Smaller organisations – which account for perhaps 85% of all graduates level jobs - generally have less predictable recruitment needs, smaller recruitment budgets, and may not have a ‘graduate programme’ to promote. Instead they will hire into specific graduatelevel positions, advertising these individual jobs as and when positions arise. ] In some sectors – for example, Advertising, Arts & Heritage, Charities, International Development, Marketing & PR and Media & Journalism – only a limited number of ‘graduate schemes’ exist. A lot of recruitment is done from the network of people known to the company, often from people seeking relevant experience and visibility through volunteering (Charities), or being runners (TV) or field workers (Development). Paid and unpaid internships tend to be very important in these industries sectors and both direct approaches and speculative applications are often expected. www.careers.ox.ac.uk 23
B DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER IDEAS ROUTES INTO GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT ] ] ] 24 Hugh Lailey Careers Adviser “With nearly 500 organisations attending our career fairs and scores of company presentaitons, Michaelmas Term is the best time to meet people doing jobs that you might be considering. Many of them are recent alumni and they come especially to talk with you. Ask them for their personal perspective and to learn what they value most about their work and their organisation.” www.careers.ox.ac.uk GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMMES INDIVIDUAL GRADUATE ROLES
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