Advice For Your Year - Postgraduate Students
Market Trends
- Get the inside track on What Employers Want.
- Get a feel for what TCD graduates did after leaving College - What TCD Graduates Do.
- Keep up to date with what is happening in the Labour Market.
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 Careers Week in Michaelmas Term
- Use the suggested "Starting Points" leaflet to direct you towards the resources relevant to your situation.
- 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.
- The Postgraduate Advisory Service is a unique and confidential service available to all registered postgraduate students at Trinity College. It offers a comprehensive range of academic, pastoral and professional supports dedicated to enhancing your student experience.
Newsletter - Options Finalist
Options newsletter published annually for finalists and postgrads with informaiton being mailed weekly during the academic year.
They include information on vacancies, closing dates, presentations, workshops and other relevant information of interest to postgraduate students.
Job Search
- Sell yourself to get that interview. Read the Job Search pages and attend the CV & Application Form workshops.
- Sell yourself in person at the interview. Read the Interview pages and attend the Interview workshop. Book yourself in for a Video Mock Interview
- Perform at your best at assessment centres and testing sessions, attend the Assessment Centre workshop. Use the numerical, verbal and conceptual reasoning tests at Profiling for Success.
- Participate in the Employer Events on and off campus.
In brief, read the Job Search pages and attend the workshops that suit your needs.
