Guides, articles and information resources
Our online careers resources library offers a wide range of information to help you explore options and find practical tips on networking, CVs and applications, and interview preparation.
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
- 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
- HR & Strategic People Management
- Human Rights
- International Development
- Internet of Things
- Journalism
- Languages
- Law (see also Skills Development section for the SQE exam)
- Learning & Development
- Life Sciences
- Localization
- Management Consultancy (see also Skills Development section for Case Interview Preparation)
- Market & Social Research
- Marketing Science
- Medical school
- Museums & Archives
- Plant, Animal & Marine Resources
- Policy Development
- Professional Careers in Universities
- Publishing
- Public Policy in China
- Robotics, Sensing and Interaction
- Science Communication
- Science Writing
- Security and Intelligence
- Social Prescribing
- Sports and Fitness
- Sustainability
- Teaching
- Tech
- Think Tanks
- Urban Planning and Development
- United Nations (UN)
Job hunting, work experience and internships:
- 10 ways to find a job
- 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
- China - job hunting resources
- Choosing between multiple job offers
- Gain experience and networks pathway
- Gig economy
- Graduate recruitment - how to find the big names
- International students - job hunting
- Internship agreements / Convention de Stage
- Internships and work experience
- Internships - Legal things to consider before accepting
- LinkedIn and social media
- Part-time work while studying
- Simulated work experience
- Starting a business
- Startups
- Summer internships - what to do if you haven't secured one
- What's next after graduation
- Work experience with patient contact
- 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
- Application forms
- Civil Service Fast Stream: Insights into Applications and Work Experiences from a UCL Alumni
- Cover letters
- CVs
- CVs, cover letters and applications pathway
- CVs for career changers
- Demonstrating your skills and competencies
- Market your Masters
- Medical school applications
- References (getting a reference for a job or course)
- References (writing a reference - a guide for UCL staff / personal tutors)
- Speculative applications: how to apply for unadvertised jobs and work experience
- AI - How to effectively use generative AI in your job hunt and A student's perspective on using ChatGPT in exploring careers and applications
- Assessment centres
- Consulting case interview preparation
- Demonstrating your skills and competencies
- Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
- Information Interviewing
- Interviews
- Market your Masters
- Medical school interviews
- Psychometric tests
- Psychometric tests – a UCL guide for disabled and neurodivergent applicants
- References (getting a reference for a job or course)
- References (writing a reference - a guide for UCL staff / personal tutors)
- Technical interviews
- Career Essentials events and resources
- Fairs at UCL - How to prepare
- Fairs - everything you need to know (a guide to UCL resources)
- Gain experience and networks pathway
- Information Interviewing
- LinkedIn and social media
- LinkedIn - avoiding overwhelm and comparison
- Networking
- Speculative applications: how to apply for unadvertised jobs and work experience
- Market your Masters
- Options for PhDs and early career researchers outside of academia
- Personal statements for postgraduate study
- PhD applications and interviews
- Postgraduate study and funding
- References (getting a reference for a job or course)
- References (writing a reference - a guide for UCL staff / personal tutors)
- Studying abroad
- What's next after graduation
- Adaptability
- Analytical and critical thinking skills and Analytical skills pathway
- Commercial awareness
- Creativity
- Decision making
- Deepen your knowledge pathway
- Demonstrating your skills and competencies
- Digital skills
- Entrepreneurial skills for the workplace and business start-up
- Explore your values pathway
- Gain experience and networks pathway
- Innovate and create pathway
- Interpersonal skills
- Leadership
- Make a social and global impact pathway
- Personal skills pathway
- Plan your future pathway
- Problem solving
- Relational skills pathway
- Resilience and drive
- Skills employers are really looking for
- Skills assessment and pathways
- Teamwork
- Technical skills pathway
- Transferable skills
- Written and verbal communication
- China - job hunting resources
- China - returning home to start your career: alumni advice
- Exploring your career options
- Gaining UK work experience during your studies
- GoinGlobal (a key resource for anyone considering working outside the UK)
- Internship agreements / Convention de Stage
- Job hunting (for international students)
- Studying abroad
- UK work visas and sponsorship
- Understanding the UK graduate jobs market
- Career change: navigating your way
- Career planning: steps to take each year you're at university
- Changing or leaving your course
- Degree result disappointment
- Leaving university without a degree: What next?
- LinkedIn - avoiding overwhelm and comparison
- Making the best of a degree you don't enjoy
- Plan your future pathway
- Returning to work after a career break
- Summer internships - what to do if you haven't secured one
- Transition from university to work
- What's next after graduation
- Disabled and neurodiverse students
- Employment rights
- Equality Act - How the 2010 Equality Act affects you
- Gig economy
- Internship agreements / Convention de Stage
- Internships - Legal things to consider before accepting
- Job scams
- Civil Service Fast Stream: Insights into Applications and Work Experiences from a UCL Alumni
- Education: working with teaching supply or recruitment agencies
- Media careers - top tips and skills to starting your career from those in the know
- Medical school applications
- Medical school interviews
- Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) - understanding the exam, training courses and more
- Sport - forming a career plan when leaving elite sport
- Teaching - a guide to key resources
- Work experience with patient contact
UCL / UCL Careers partners with / subscribes to a number of software and platform providers to give you free access to specific tools / resources so that you don't have to pay for these.
- eCareersGrad resource (Interview simulation platform plus International Student support)
- GoinGlobal resource (Country specific guides / labour market information and job search engines)
- Graduates First resource (Online aptitude / selection tests, AI interview simulator and more)
- Graduate recruitment - how to find the big names (link to resources)
- Lockin U (Jobs board for vacancies in China)
- Practice Aptitude Tests resource (Online aptitude / selection tests)
- VMock resource (AI tool for reviewing CVs and / or LinkedIn profiles)
- LinkedIn Learning (Online short courses covering a wide range of topics - licence provided for students by UCL ISD)
- China - job hunting resources
- China - returning home to start your career: alumni advice
- Exploring your career options
- Gaining UK work experience during your studies
- GoinGlobal (a key resource for anyone considering working outside the UK)
- Job hunting (for international students)
- Studying abroad
- UK work visas and sponsorship
- Understanding the UK graduate jobs market
- Disabled and neurodiverse 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
- City of London - Open Spaces (employer profile)
- Working at HSBC in China (alumni profile)
- Abundance Investment (employer profile)
- 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)
- Research Manager (Ethnography Centre of Excellence) at Ipsos UK (alumni profile)
- Head of Business Development, the Association of Volunteer Managers (alumni profile)
- Content Producer at World Wide Fund for Nature (alumni profile)
- Political Campaigner at Greenpeace EU (alumni profile)
- Research, Campaigns and Communications Assistant at Amnesty International (alumni profile)
- 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)
- FACT (employer profile)
- Crowdstrike (employer profile)
- 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 Scientist, Curve (alumni profile)
- From teaching to Educational Mental Health Practitioner (alumni profile)
- 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 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)
- Carbon Analyst at Drax Group (alumni profile)
- Parham Rakhshanfar, Huzzle (alumni profile)
- Head of Entrepreneurship, UCL Innovation & Enterprise (alumni profile)
- Product Manager, allplants (alumni profile)
Forensic Scientist, Luxembourg Police (alumni profile)
- 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)
- Consultant at UNHCR (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)
- Head of People & Culture at Arethia (alumni profile)
- HR Graduate at a Financial Services company (alumni profile)
- Learning Experience Manager at Investec (alumni profile)
- Learning & Development Business Partner at Capsticks (alumni profile)
- Learning & Development Advisor at the National Foundation for Education Research (alumni profile)
- Learning & Development Coordinator at Banking Circle (alumni profile)
- Organisational Development Partner at Google DeepMind (alumni profile)
- Organisational Development Specialist at Staffbase (alumni profile)
- Strategic Reward and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant at PwC (alumni profile)
- Workforce Development Programmes and Training Lead at the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (alumni profile)
- Duke Corporate Education (employer profile)
- Early Career Manager at Kepak Group (employer profile)
- Head of People & Culture at Arethia (employer profile)
- Senior Legal Officer at the United Nations (UN) (alumni profile)
- Political Campaigner at Greenpeace EU (alumni profile)
- Consultant at UNHCR (alumni profile)
- Senior Project Manager at the International AIDS Society (alumni profile)
- Research, Campaigns and Communications Assistant at Amnesty International (alumni profile)
Sustainability Consultant & Project Management Officer at Deloitte (alumni profile)
- National Foundation for Educational Research (employer profile)
- Research Manager at Ipsos MORI (alumni profile)
- 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)
- Performance Marketing freelancer (alumni profile)
- Growth Marketing Specialist at Market Groups (alumni profile)
- Digital Marketing Specialist at Mintel (alumni profile)
- 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)
- Localization Consultant at SHL (alumni profile)
- Senior Localization Project Manager at Fresha (alumni profile)
- Assistant Localization Producer at Square Enix (alumni profile)
- Development Manager at Audley Property (alumni profile)
- Savills (employer profile)
- 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)
- Virtual Tools Development Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover (alumni profile)
- Autonomy Scientist at Auriga AI (alumni profile)
- Research associate in medical robotics at Imperial College London (alumni profile)
- Robotics software engineer at Amentum (alumni profile)
- The Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and AI for NetZero (employer profile)
- Costello Medical (employer profile)
- Freelance Science Editor and Writer (alumni profile)
- Freelance Science Writer (alumni profile)
- Science writer, First Create the Media (alumni profile)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Sustainability Consultant & Project Management Officer at Deloitte (alumni profile)
- 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.