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Career Discovery
Career Discovery provides you with information and resources for every stage of your career search. You will find loads of really helpful articles written by UCL Careers, including industry sector guides and tips on popular topics such as finding opportunities, applications and interviews. You will also have access to a broad range of articles from TARGETjobs, including job profiles, sector overviews, employee case studies, popular employers and more.
Our top tips
- Personalise your feed
Add your sector interests to view the most relevant content on your homepage and receive article suggestions. - Look out for UCL Careers content
You'll find a range of 'UCL Guides' specifically written for UCL students, researchers and graduates. These will appear in your searches or can all be viewed in the ‘Latest from UCL Careers’ section on the homepage. The information pages on the different sections of this site will also provide direct links to the most relevant UCL articles for that topic. Our sector articles will help you to discover the roles available, employer directories, key job sites, sample internships and graduate schemes, opportunities for under-represented groups, professional bodies, industry insights, and how UCL can support you. UCL Careers has also written a series of articles on equality, diversity and inclusion, including support for disabled students and recent graduates, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. - Experiment with your searches
Search the platform by key words to discover a range of articles from UCL Careers and TARGET jobs. Examples include ‘CVs’, ‘interviews’, ‘further study’, ‘teaching’, and ‘law’. In some cases, more detailed searches can be helpful, such as ‘banking interviews’, or ‘charity jobs’. - Save and share articles
Use the heart icon to save articles that you wish to come back to. You can also use the arrow icon to share any article that might be of interest your friends at UCL.
Article index for specific content from the UCL Careers Team
- Industry sectors
- Advertising, Marketing & PR
- Academia
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Arts
- Banking & Finance
- Banking & Finance in China
- Broadcast Media
- Built Environment
- Business Analytics
- Charities & NGOs
- Clinical Trials
- Commercial Clinical Lab Diagnostics & Forensics
- Cosmetics Research
- Data Science
- Economics
- Education Technology (EdTech)
- Engineering
- Fashion Management
- Fintech
- Food & Drink Technology
- Government & Policy
- Health (see also Skills Development section for articles on Work experience with patient contact, and Medical school applications, personal statements and interviews)
- Heritage
- International Development
- IT & Technology
- Journalism
- Languages
- Law (see also Skills Development section for the SQE exam)
- Life & Health Sciences
- Management Consultancy (see also Skills Development section for Case Interview Preparation)
- Market & Social Research
- Medical school
- Museums & Archives
- Professional Careers in Universities
- Publishing
- Science Communication
- Science Writing
- Security and Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Think Tanks
- Skills development
- 10 ways to find a job
- Academic CV guide
- Alternatives to graduate schemes
- Application forms
- Applying for a PhD
- Assessment centres
- Career change
- Changing or leaving your course
- Commercial awareness
- Consulting case interview preparation
- Convention de Stage
- Cover letters
- CVs
- Demonstrating your skills and competencies
- Disabled students
- EcareersGrad resource
- Entrepreneurial skills for the workplace and business start-up
- GoinGlobal resource
- Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
- Graduates First resource
- Information Interviewing
- International students
- Internships and work experience
- Interviews
- LinkedIn and social media
- LinkedIn - avoiding overwhelm and comparison
- Market your Masters
- Media careers - top tips and skills to starting your career from those in the know
- Medical school applications
- Medical school interviews
- Networking
- Options for PhDs and early career researchers outside of academia
- Part-time work while studying
- Personal statements for postgraduate study
- Postgraduate study and funding
- Practice Aptitude Tests resource
- Psychometric tests
- Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) - understanding the exam, training courses and more
- Speculative applications: how to apply for unadvertised jobs and work experience
- Starting a business
- Studying abroad
- Technical interviews
- VMock resource
- What's next after graduation
- Work experience with patient contact
- Working with teaching supply or recruitment agencies
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Disabled students
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: disclosure - telling future employers about non-visible health conditions
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: employability support from UCL
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: key job sites
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: mental health and starting work
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: mentoring opportunities
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: organisations providing support, funding and legal advice
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: reasonable adjustments at interview and in the workplace
- Disabilities & long-term health conditions: sample graduate schemes, internships and work placements
- Neurodiversity: asking for reasonable adjustments
- Neurodiversity: discussing your strengths with employers
- Inclusive job boards
- LGBTQ+: opportunities for underrepresented groups
- Opportunities for students from low socio-economic backgrounds
- Race and ethnicity: opportunities for underrepresented groups
- Race and ethnicity: employability support from UCL
- Under-represented groups: accessing postgraduate study
- Resources for researchers
- Alumni / employer case studies
- Banking & Finance: Working at HSBC in China (alumni profile)
- Banking & Finance: Abundance Investment (employer profile)
- Banking & Finance: City of London - Open Spaces (employer profile)
- Business Analytics: sector recruitment overview (employer profile)
- Business Analytics: Analytical Consultant, Tech sector (alumni profile)
- Business Analytics: Director of Customer Success & NFT Project Lead, AKIVA Metaverse, & Sales Executive at Eligible.ai (alumni profile)
- Business Analytics: Business Analyst, EY (alumni profile)
- Business Analytics: Relationship Manager, BlackRock (alumni profile)
- Business Analytics: Technology Consulting Analyst, Accenture (alumni profile)
- Business Analytics: Anaplan (employer profile)
- Charities: Head of Business Development, the Association of Volunteer Managers (alumni profile)
- Clinical Trials: Clinical Trials Practitioner, Barts Health NHS Trust (alumni profile)
- Clinical Trials: Clinical Research Associate 1 (CRA-1), IQVIA (alumni profile)
- Clinical Trials: Clinical Research Associate 2 (CRA-2), Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) (alumni profile)
- Commercial Clinical Laboratories: Medical Laboratory Assistant at TDL & Independent Researcher at UCL Cancer Institute (alumni profile)
- Commercial Clinical Laboratories: Trainee Clinical Scientist (Biochemistry), NHS Scientist Training Programme (alumni profile)
- Data Science: Head of Insight and Data Science, The Economist (alumni profile)
- Data Science: Data Science Associate, The Financial Conduct Authority (alumni profile)
- Data Science: Senior Data Science Specialist, Syneos Health (alumni profile)
- Data Science: Data Sciencist, Curve (alumni profile)
- Entrepreneurship: Parham Rakhshanfar, Huzzle (alumni profile)
- Entrepreneurship: Head of Entrepreneurship, UCL Innovation & Enterprise (alumni profile)
- Food and Drink Technology: Product Manager, allplants (alumni profile)
- Forensic Science: Forensic Scientist, Luxembourg Police (alumni profile)
- Government and Policy/Social Research: Civil Service Fast Stream - Government Social Research Scheme (employer profile)
- Market & Social Research: Research Manager at Ipsos MORI (alumni profile)
- Market & Social Research: National Foundation for Educational Research (employer profile)
- Marketing: Marketing Executive, The Economist Group (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Head of Marketing, The Marketing Store (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Marketing Executive, Boodle Hatfield (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Digital Marketing Manager, Agatha Christie Ltd (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Account Director (Communications) with FleishmanHillard Fishburn (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Account Manager at AMV BBDO (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Press Manager for Young Vic Theatre (alumni profile)
- Marketing: Strategist (Marketing/Branding) at Freemavens (alumni profile)
- Media: Advice for careers in Television, CEO of Together TV (employer profile)
- Media: Line Producer for Lime Pictures (alumni profile)
- Media: Deputy Social Media Editor for The Independent (alumni profile)
- Media: Correspondent for BBC Newsnight (alumni profile)
- Media: Reporter for Guardian News & Media (alumni profile)
- Media: Journalist for PBS NewsHour (alumni profile)
- Media: Director at Intraspectrum Studios (alumni profile)
- Media: Freelance TV Director with Purple Purple Productions (alumni profile)
- Media: Senior Vice President: Non-Scripted Content for All3media International (alumni profile)
- Media: International Film Reporter for Deadline Hollywood (alumni profile)
- Media/Charities: Content Producer at World Wide Fund for Nature (alumni profile)
- Property: Savills (employer profile)
- Publishing: Editorial Director at Academic Studies Press (alumni profile)
- Publishing: Editor for Bloomsbury Business (University of London alumni profile)
- Publishing: International Publishing and Licensing Executive at Dorling Kindersley (alumni profile)
- Publishing: Managing Editor at Phaidon Press (alumni profile)
- Publishing: Rights Assistant at Penguin Random House UK (alumni profile)
- Publishing: Senior Publishing Editor for Royal Society Open Science (alumni profile)
- Science Writing: Freelance Science Editor and Writer (alumni profile)
- Science Writing: Freelance Science Writer (alumni profile)
- Science Writing: Science writer, First Create the Media (alumni profile)
- Science Writing: Costello Medical (employer profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Senior Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Engineer at Ultra Maritime (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Co-founder of the technology startup, Superflows (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Machine Learning Scientist at Relation Therapeutics (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Accenture (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Geopolitical Intelligence Analyst at Barclays / Dragonfly Intelligence (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Senior Digital Investigations Analyst at Protection Group International (alumni profile)
- Security & Intelligence: Conatix (employer profile)
- Sustainability: Head of Commercial Partnerships, Fairtrade Foundation (alumni profile)
- Sustainability: Lead Revenue Manager, Orsted (alumni profile)
- Sustainability: Education, Communication & Outreach Officer, Veolia (alumni profile)
Sustainability: Sustainable UCL (employer profile)
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Loan books
The IOE Library holds several careers books that you can borrow to read in your own time. Books available cover CVs, interview and case interview tips, preparing for assessment centres, and psychometric tests including commonly used tests such as numerical/verbal reasoning plus a wide range of other professional level selection tests.
Loans are available for 1 week.
Visit the library catalogue to view titles available.