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Succeeding with Applications and Interviews

Provides sources of advice on planning and reviewing the career route, - the applications, interviews, tests and preparation.

Careers Advice - CVs - Application Forms - Interviews - Tests - Portfolios

There are several key websites that provide direct advice or links to advice on planning, preparing and managing your career. Your current or former college or university should also be able to give careers advice, by meetings, phone, email or online, for up to a year or two after leaving.

The AGCAS web pages on Career Management skills provide links to websites dealing with self-assessment, career decision-making, application forms, CV writing and interviews.

Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services is the professional association of careers professionals in Higher Education. AGCAS has web pages on career advice, universities, sector briefings, vocational courses, employability, and career management skills - by client group, self assessment, decision-making, opportunity awareness, application forms CV writing, interviews, and reports.

The Prospects web pages on Test Yourself offer free self-assessment tools for aptitude, personality and career development. Prospects also free personalised advice services for European Community nationals who've graduated from University within the last 5 years and are seeking advice on work and study in the UK. Graduates can Email a careers consultant or Have their Prospects CV checked. Graduates and students can Talk to graduates online, join a Careers chat live, have Regional graduate services in the UK and Eire.

Prospects is the UK’s official graduate career website. Prospects offers information on employers, jobs, work experience and career choice. Useful features include: Quick Match – identifying similarities between your own skills, motivations and preferences and those of hundreds of occupations, and Occupational Profiles which cross-references to similar occupations. Although primarily aimed at undergraduates, much of the information is of direct relevance to graduates.

The OU web pages have an online and interactive Learners Guide to Career Planning.

Open University Careers Advisory Service provides advice to students and graduates about careers. OU publishes the online Learners Guide to Career Planning which includes About you (Helping you assess your present situation and working environment). Finding job ideas (Helping you structure your career search), Applying for jobs (Giving up-to-date approaches to CVs, advice on coping with interviews and more), OU study and your career (Information about the Career Service and the value of OU study), Career toolkit (Activities that you can use offline).

The Hobsons web pages provide a range of career management advice, using directories and guides.

Hobsons Graduate Careers publishes online education and employment information for graduates. Hobsons provides web pages including Gap years, writing job applications, graduate job vacancies, graduate jobs and careers advice, Employer search-over 300 graduate employers and recruitment schemes, A–Z employers, Placement search to find a work experience placement or internship, Career areas - Info on 19 industry sectors, including advice and employer searches, Equality advice - Info on equal opportunities at work, Education and training - Postgraduate and professional study options in the UK and overseas.

There is a Jobcentre Plus, Jobcentre or Connexions office in most towns and cities which can offer face-to-face careers advice.

Jobcentre Plus is part of the Department of Work and Pensions, through its Jobcentres helps people get a job and employment advice. JCP provides advice at every stage of the job search, advice on career direction and advice on training, as well as information about learning new skills, starting your own business, and job opportunities.

Connexions has 47 Connexions services in England that provide information, advice, guidance and support to young people aged 13 to 19. Connexions offers Career Development Loans for vocational education or learning, the Connexions Direct service via phone, text messaging, web chat and email, and a limited advice service to 19 to 24 year olds.

Worktrain provides jobs and careers information from Jobcentre Plus. Worktrain provides online searches for jobs, training, voluntary work and careers information, with links to websites with information on Skills and careers, Applying for jobs, Employment, Support services.

Support 4 Learning is an independent and impartial free source of information for students, graduates and other learners, funded by HERO, providing information, advice and links to a host of career resources. S4L provides Help to choose, finance and support your education, training, lifelong learning, career planning and job search and Information, advice and the best resources online to support learning, careers and job search.

Alec provides a range of free and charged career advice services. ALEC contains information and advice relating to interview tips, Job search advice, psychometric tests and CV advice, application letters, psychometric tests, and interviews.

DoctorJob is a graduate career website. DJ provides job vacancies for graduates, includes work experience, careers advice, post graduate courses and contains a life page on how to live and work post graduation, registration online to receive job emails.

Workthing provides information on job opportunities, career paths and life at work. WT has web pages with advice on Graduate Career Paths.

FullerCV provides a complimentary telephone assessment of your CV and identifies common mistakes that fail to secure interviews and lose jobs.