Advice For Your Year - Junior Soph

• Vacation Work/Summer Internships
• Newsletter - Options for Junior Sophs
• Plan your Career - Start Now!
• Postgraduate Study
• Job Search

 

Vacation Work/Summer Internships

Using vacations to your best advantage will ensure that you gain varied and interesting experience for inclusion on your CV. Explore the VACWORK Programme. Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Junior Sophs should also explore the SURE programme.

Newsletter - Options for Junior Sophs

Options Junior Soph is published bi-annually in hard copy and is also available on the web.

 

Plan your Career - Start Now!

No time like the present to start thinking about what you would like to do with your life and planning to make it happen!

• Attend the Getting Started seminar with your Careers Adviser in Hilary or Trinity Term. Generally a one hour session targeted at Junior Sophisters. Topics include identification of skills, what employers look for, issues surrounding postgraduate study and how to get the best out of the Careers Service.
• Attend the Careers Week in Michaelmas Term.
• Start planning your career using the SODA model in Plan Your Career. Included on this page we recommend you also use:
  • Destinations® (Only available to TCD students and graduates). An online sequence of activities and exercises that lead Senior Frensh to Postgraduate students through the self-assessment and career planning process.
  • Prospects Planner - which has a database of several hundred jobs and will generate more career options.

Bring a copy of your profiles, which you can print out when you complete the assessment, to your meeting with your Careers Adviser.

• Personal Development Programme (PDP) - Through a combination of seminars, online tools, a workbook (known as the PCDR), careers evening and in some schools a mentoring programme, the PDP supports you in your career exploration and planning. In collaboration with a number of disciplines, the PDP is provided where activities are tailored to your needs.
  
  Through participation in the programme, students:

• Develop a profile of their skills, values and interests
• Gain career research skills and explore opportunities available to them
• Enhance their decision making skills
• Gain practical skills in making applications and interviews
• Develop an action plan for their career.

More information is available on the PDP.

 

Postgraduate Study

• Thinking of studying in the USA?
  • You need to investigate the courses you are interested in applying to prior to your final year.
  • Apply for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) if you are applying to Graduate Schools in the US.
  • Apply for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) if you are applying to Graduate School of Management.
  • Applications need to be submitted to the US University in December before starting study.
• Apply for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) if you are applying to Graduate Schools of Management worldwide.
• Explore Postgraduate Study in general.

 

Job Search

• Get yourself that interview. Read the Job Search pages and attend the CV & Application Forms workshops.
• Now, get yourself that job at interview. Read the Interview pages and attend the Interview workshop
• Perform at your best at assessment centres and testing sessions, attend the Assessment Centre workshop and practice Testing.

In brief, read the Job Search pages and attend the workshop that suits your needs.