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- What Next?
  What Next?
  - User forum
    To start the course, use this forum to tell us a bit about yourself and get to know other participants. Ideas for your first post:
    Your name
    The University you graduated from
    The degree you studied
    What you're hoping to gain from taking part
    This forum is also available to all course participants to start discussions, ask for help, and support each other throughout the course. Please come back to it throughout if you'd like support or to chat to other course participants.
Course learning outcomes
Throughout this course, you will take steps to:
- Understand and articulate your key skills, attributes, and unique selling points
- Reflect on the experiences which have shaped you so far in your life and career and learn how to articulate them
- Identify relevant sources of labour market information and intelligence, and learn tools and techniques which can help you to match what you have to offer with these opportunities
- Begin or continue career planning activities, which you will continue to use and develop throughout your career
- Engage in discussion with your peers to share experiences
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What Next?
ExpandWhat Next?
- Contents
  What Next? – Transitioning from being a student
  Acknowledging where you are
  Using/developing career resilience
  Career planning
- What Next? Book
- Implications of COVID-19 Book
- Developing Career Resilience Book
- Career Planning Book
- Activities
- Share Your Challenges Forum
- Developing self-awareness Book
- Opportunities Awareness - Activities Page
Self-promotion
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- Contents
  Self-promotion
  What are graduate skills and attributes?
  CVs/Applications
  Interviews/Assessment centres
  Networking including social media
- Self-Promotion Book
- CV advice Book
- Successful applications Page
- Interview advice Book
- Assessment Activities at Interview/Assessment Centre Page
- Job offers Page
- Networking online Book
- Activities and resources
- Selling a brand Forum
  
  “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person”: Jeff Bezos - CEO and Founder of Amazon
- Your graduate skills and attributes Quiz
- CV top tips File
Finding Opportunities
ExpandFinding Opportunities
- Contents
  Identifying opportunities
  Business and sector strategic awareness
  Navigating job search
  Job description jargon busting/glossary of common recruitment terms
- Opportunities to work Book
- Self-employment Book
- Further study opportunities Book
- Something else Book
- Employer Research Checklist Book
- Navigating job search Book
- Activities and Resources
- AGCAS self-employment guide File
- Business Model Canvas Book
- Business Model Canvas template: create your own File
- Job description jargon busting/glossary of common recruitment terms
In the Workplace
ExpandIn the Workplace
- Contents
  Transitioning away from education
  Your rights in the workplace
  Your first day: what to expect
  Reasonable employer expectations and your approach to work
  Office/Technology etiquette
  Managing up
  Developing workplace resilience and strategies to deal with challenges
  Dealing with difficult colleagues
  Adapting to working from home
- In the Workplace Book
- Adapting to working from home Book
- Activities
- Your rights Quiz
- Reasonable employer expectations and your approach to work Quiz
- Developing workplace resilience and strategies to deal with challenges Forum
Unhappy with your current situation?
ExpandUnhappy with your current situation?
- Contents
  Are you unhappy with your current situation?
  Making the most of current opportunities
  Using your network
  Fitting in development activities
- Are you unhappy with your current situation? File
- Top Tips to make the most of current opportunities Book
Transcripts of video content
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- What Next? Book
- Self-promotion Book
- Finding Opportunities Book
- In the Workplace Book
- Unhappy with your current situation Book
- What are graduate skills and attributes? Glossary
  Please select "all" to view a range of graduate skills and attributes.
Acknowledgements and References
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- Acknowledgements Page
- References Page

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