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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.
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- 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
- Audio
- Banking & Finance
- Banking & Finance in China
- Broadcast Media - TV, Film, Radio & Digital
- Built Environment
- Business Analytics
- Business Ethnography
- Charities & NGOs
- Clinical Trials
- Commercial Clinical Lab Diagnostics & Forensics
- Conservation
- Cosmetics Research
- Data Science
- Economics
- Education Consultancy
- Education Technology (EdTech)
- Energy
- Engineering
- Fashion Management
- Filmmaking and High-End Television
- Fintech
- Food & Drink Technology
- Government & Policy (see also guides on careers in Policy Development and Think Tanks, and Skills Development section for Civil Service Fast Stream: Insights from UCL Alumni)
- 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
- Internet of Things
- 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
- Plant, Animal & Marine Resources
- Policy Development
- Professional Careers in Universities
- Publishing
- Public Policy in China
- Science Communication
- Science Writing
- Security and Intelligence
- Social Prescribing
- Sports and Fitness
- Sustainability
- Think Tanks
- Urban Planning and Development
- United Nations (UN)
- Career planning, next steps and skills development
- 10 ways to find a job
- Academic CV guide
- AI - How to effectively use generative AI in your job hunt and A student's perspective on using ChatGPT in exploring careers and applications
- Alternatives to graduate schemes
- Application forms
- Applying for a PhD
- Assessment centres
- Career change
- Career Essentials events and resources
- Career planning: steps to take each year you're at university
- Changing or leaving your course
- China - job hunting resources
- China - returning home to start your career: alumni advice
- Civil Service Fast Stream: Insights into Applications and Work Experiences from a UCL Alumni
- Choosing between multiple job offers
- Commercial awareness
- Consulting case interview preparation
- Cover letters
- CVs
- Degree result disappointment
- Demonstrating your skills and competencies
- Disabled students
- Education: working with teaching supply or recruitment agencies
- Employment rights
- Entrepreneurial skills for the workplace and business start-up
- Equality Act - How the 2010 Equality Act affects you
- Fairs at UCL - How to prepare
- Fairs - everything you need to know (a guide to UCL resources)
- Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
- Graduate recruitment - how to find the big names
- Information Interviewing
- International students
- Internship agreements / Convention de Stage
- Internships and work experience
- Internships - Legal things to consider before accepting
- Interviews
- Job scams
- Leaving university without a degree: What next?
- LinkedIn and social media
- LinkedIn - avoiding overwhelm and comparison
- Making the best of a degree you don't enjoy
- 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
- Psychometric tests
- Psychometric tests – a UCL guide for disabled and neurodivergent applicants
- References for a job or course
- Returning to work after a career break
- Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) - understanding the exam, training courses and more
- Speculative applications: how to apply for unadvertised jobs and work experience
- Skills employers are really looking for
- Sport - forming a career plan when leaving elite sport
- Summer internships - what to do if you haven't secured one
- Starting a business
- Startups
- Studying abroad
- Technical interviews
- What's next after graduation
- Work experience with patient contact
- Online Tools and Subscriptions
- Resources for researchers
- 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
- Equality Act - How the 2010 Equality Act affects you
- 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
- Psychometric tests – a UCL guide for disabled and neurodivergent applicants
- Race and ethnicity: opportunities for underrepresented groups
- Race and ethnicity: employability support from UCL
- Under-represented groups: accessing postgraduate study
Alumni / Employer case studies
- Banking and Finance
- City of London - Open Spaces (employer profile)
- Working at HSBC in China (alumni profile)
- Abundance Investment (employer profile)
- Business Analytics
- Business Analytics: sector recruitment overview (employer profile)
- Anaplan (employer profile)
- Analytical Consultant, Tech sector (alumni profile)
- Director of Customer Success & NFT Project Lead, AKIVA Metaverse, & Sales Executive at Eligible.ai (alumni profile)
- Business Analyst, EY (alumni profile)
- Relationship Manager, BlackRock (alumni profile)
- Technology Consulting Analyst, Accenture (alumni profile)
- Business Ethnography
- Research Manager (Ethnography Centre of Excellence) at Ipsos UK (alumni profile)
- Charities
- Head of Business Development, the Association of Volunteer Managers (alumni profile)
- Content Producer at World Wide Fund for Nature (alumni profile)
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials Practitioner, Barts Health NHS Trust (alumni profile)
- Clinical Research Associate 1 (CRA-1), IQVIA (alumni profile)
- Clinical Research Associate 2 (CRA-2), Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) (alumni profile)
- Commercial Clinical Laboratories
- Cybersecurity
- FACT (employer profile)
- Crowdstrike (employer profile)
- Data Science
- Head of Insight and Data Science, The Economist (alumni profile)
- Data Science Associate, The Financial Conduct Authority (alumni profile)
- Senior Data Science Specialist, Syneos Health (alumni profile)
- Data Sciencist, Curve (alumni profile)
- EdTech
- E-Learning Designer and Content Developer at EmpathyMindCare (alumni profile)
- Designer at CABI (alumni profile)
- Learning Technologist at St George's, University of London (alumni profile)
- Learning Technologies Specialist at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (alumni profile)
- Senior Operations Specialist at Coursera (alumni profile)
- Education Consultancy
- Education consultant at Sixth Formula (alumni profile)
- Education consultant at Team Educate (alumni profile)
- Self-employed education consultant (alumni profile)
- Education consultant at AcceptU (alumni profile)
- Energy
- Carbon Analyst at Drax Group (alumni profile)
- Entrepreneurship
- Parham Rakhshanfar, Huzzle (alumni profile)
- 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 Public Policy/Social Research
- Project Assistant at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) (alumni profile)
- Extended Reality (XR) professional at a Chinese tech firm (alumni profile)
- Associate Consultant with APCO (alumni profile)
- Chief Strategy Officer at BRILINK/Research Fellow at the Grandview Institution (alumni profile)
- Policy Advisor at Green Alliance (alumni profile)
- Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations (UN) (alumni profile)
- Senior Partnerships Officer at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) (alumni profile)
- Public Information Specialist and Youth Engagement Lead at the United Nations (UN) (alumni profile)
- Civil Service Fast Stream - Government Social Research Scheme (employer profile)
- Deloitte China (employer profile)
- Asian Video Industry Association (employer profile)
- Law
- Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations (UN) (alumni profile)
- Market and Social Research
- National Foundation for Educational Research (employer profile)
- Research Manager at Ipsos MORI (alumni profile)
- Marketing
- Marketing Executive, The Economist Group (alumni profile)
- Head of Marketing, The Marketing Store (alumni profile)
- Marketing Executive, Boodle Hatfield (alumni profile)
- Digital Marketing Manager, Agatha Christie Ltd (alumni profile)
- Account Director (Communications) with FleishmanHillard Fishburn (alumni profile)
- Account Manager at AMV BBDO (alumni profile)
- Press Manager for Young Vic Theatre (alumni profile)
- Strategist (Marketing/Branding) at Freemavens (alumni profile)
- Media
- Advice for careers in Television, CEO of Together TV (employer profile)
- Film Distributors’ Association (employer profile)
- Trainee Journalist for the BBC (alumni profile)
- Line Producer for Lime Pictures (alumni profile)
- Deputy Social Media Editor for The Independent (alumni profile)
- Correspondent for BBC Newsnight (alumni profile)
- Reporter for Guardian News & Media (alumni profile)
- Journalist for PBS NewsHour (alumni profile)
- Director at Intraspectrum Studios (alumni profile)
- Freelance camera trainee and freelance translator, Pulse Films (alumni profile)
- Freelance Art Department Assistant (alumni profile)
- Documentary filmmaker (freelance) (alumni profile)
- Freelance TV Director with Purple Purple Productions (alumni profile)
- Particle 6 Productions (employer profile)
- Senior Vice President: Non-Scripted Content for All3media International (alumni profile)
- International Film Reporter for Deadline Hollywood (alumni profile)
- Content Producer at World Wide Fund for Nature (alumni profile)
- Property
- Savills (employer profile)
- Publishing
- Editorial Director at Academic Studies Press (alumni profile)
- Editor for Bloomsbury Business (University of London alumni profile)
- International Publishing and Licensing Executive at Dorling Kindersley (alumni profile)
- Managing Editor at Phaidon Press (alumni profile)
- Rights Assistant at Penguin Random House UK (alumni profile)
- Senior Publishing Editor for Royal Society Open Science (alumni profile)
- Science Writing
- Costello Medical (employer profile)
- Freelance Science Editor and Writer (alumni profile)
- Freelance Science Writer (alumni profile)
- Science writer, First Create the Media (alumni profile)
- Security and Intelligence
- Conatix (employer profile)
- Senior Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Engineer at Ultra Maritime (alumni profile)
- Co-founder of the technology startup, Superflows (alumni profile)
- Machine Learning Scientist at Relation Therapeutics (alumni profile)
- Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Accenture (alumni profile)
- Geopolitical Intelligence Analyst at Barclays / Dragonfly Intelligence (alumni profile)
- Senior Digital Investigations Analyst at Protection Group International (alumni profile)
- Sports and Fitness
- GP trainee at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (alumni profile)
- Self-Employed Physiotherapist via Physio Restart (alumni profile)
- Self-Employed Physiotherapist via Flexibility Matters Physiotherapy (alumni profile)
- Sports and Exercise Medicine Consultant at MoD, private practice and elite sport (alumni profile)
- Sports Medicine professional at NHS, Arsenal FC, the FA (alumni profile)
- Sports Development Coordinator at Team UCL (UCL staff member profile)
- Sustainability
- Sustainable UCL (employer profile)
- Head of Commercial Partnerships, Fairtrade Foundation (alumni profile)
- Lead Revenue Manager, Orsted (alumni profile)
- Education, Communication & Outreach Officer, Veolia (alumni profile)
- Urban Planning
- Urban planner at Arup (alumni profile)
- Graduate planning officer at Southwark Council (alumni profile)
- Urban design advisor at Transport for London (alumni profile)
- Assistant transport planner at AtkinsRealis (alumni profile)
- Pegasus Group (employer profile)
- WSP (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.