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You are here:  Personal Development Planning
Lucy Cavendish College offers all its students the best facilities and advice to enable them to make use of the available help, both from the College and from the University central services, in planning their academic and personal development during their studies and research, and towards their further career. The central University Careers Service provides a wealth of careers information and guidance, many of it specifically aimed at graduate students. It also offers Interview Practice sessions coaching and workshops throughout the year, and provides invaluable help with placement in jobs. Their services are still available to students after they leave. In the College, students receive of course individual support from their personal tutor. Tutors are also always willing to provide references, and advise on others who could do so, and continue to offer this after a student leaves. The College arranges graduate programmes every term on topics related to career planning, in response to demand from the student body. These might cover possible employment options, or job-search skills such as CV writing. During your time at Cambridge you will be given various opportunities both in your Department and in College, in your academic work and in other activities, to develop skills that will be transferable to situations outside academic work and study. The University has a website on transferable skills for undergraduates. You are encouraged to identify and develop those skills that you might need for different aspects of your course or your career, and to keep a record of this. An interactive guide to transferable skills for undergraduates is provided on the same website. Although the site is designed for undergraduates, it can be a useful for graduates as well. For them, though, a college webpage on transferable skills for graduates is also available. You are encouraged to make use of it to keep a record of your own progress and training. A range of useful resources are documented here. As you might expect, Lucy Cavendish graduates go on to many different kinds of work after they graduate. Some have studied topics here such as Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Law or Education, and move on into careers that build on those qualifications. Others use their degrees to combine with the skills and expertise they had before they came here, getting better jobs in the same field or moving into free-lance work as consultants. Some go on to take higher degrees, either at Cambridge or elsewhere, or continue academic research with (post-doc) positions in the UK or overseas. Others find sides of themselves during their time here that they never guessed - and with the help of careers advisers they go on into quite new fields. |
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