Y3 Summer Break

Whether you have plans for life after graduation or not, you can use this final summer break to reflect and answer some questions about your future. These questions are there to support your thinking and make the future feel less overwhelming.

Look back through this site and remind yourself of your exploration of the support and services, reflection of yourself and your degree, and your planning of your employability basics. Fill in any gaps in your knowledge, find answers to your questions, and access the support that is still available!

Remember that you can still access Career Connect and the Careers and Employability Service after you graduate. Answering these questions and exploring these links, can help you plan your next steps.

Checklist:

• Complete the mySkills assessment

• Explore Career Connect 

• Familiarise yourself with the Sheffield Graduate Attributes

• Decide what you might want to try next semester 

• Explore part-time jobs/volunteering opportunities on Career Connect 

• Explore jobs and graduate jobs on both Career Connect and other sites

• See which events you might want to attend 

• Access any support and services that you need to 

• Ask questions you have about your employability and future career choices

• Update access to Career Connect as a graduate 

• Use the activities, guides, and question prompts below to explore and reflect on your employability

PLAN: 

As your degree experience is coming to an end, you are in the best position to create an Action Plan to help you visualise your life after your degree. You can also explore the web pages dedicated to graduates to understand what support is available to you from the university even after you graduate. 

• Your Action Plan

Write yourself an ‘Action Plan’ where you identify which skills you want to develop the most. These might be the skills that you feel will benefit you the most in the future or skills that you haven’t yet had the opportunity to develop. 

Once you have your list of skills, think of ways that you could develop these skills. This might include:

• • Finding work experience 

  • Doing an online course or workshop 

  • Actively developing these skills during your summer studies 

  • University Resources

  • Attending Conferences and Seminars

  • Online Communities (like LinkedIn groups)

  • Volunteering

  • Researching other ways you could develop these skills

• Resources and websites that can be helpful in deciding what careers you could do and which might suit you best:

  • • https://www.prospects.ac.uk/ - This site has job profiles that break down what qualifications/experiences you need. It also has a quiz to help you find the right career for you. 

    • https://targetjobs.co.uk/ - This site advertises jobs, internships, career guides and advice. 

    • https://online.goinglobal.com/ - This site shows you global job opportunities. 

    • https://www.milkround.com/  - This site advertises jobs, internships, career guides and advice. 

    • Higher Education career websites

    • Companies own websites

    • General job sites, such as Indeed

    • Job sites that specialise in particular careers or specific countries, cities or regions

    • Recruitment agencies

    • Social media, including LinkedIn and X (Twitter) What did you enjoy the most?

    • The Arts and Humanities Careers Hub also has a page dedicated to 'Where to find graduate jobs as an A&H Student'

• Useful Links:

• https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/graduate/use-subject  

• https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/graduate 

• https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/graduate 

• https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/careers/support/services/graduates  

• https://careerconnect.sheffield.ac.uk/student/home.html