Graduate career readiness: Prepare

Position yourself for success

Even if you have a clear idea about your career interests, it's still important to ensure you have the right package of skills and experience that employers are looking for so that you can secure relevant opportunities. The following can help you position yourself for success in the graduate labour market:

• Use sites like Adzuna, Prospects Luminate and LinkedIn to build your knowledge of what is happening with different industries in the jobs market.
• Get a better understanding of the different types of job opportunities available to graduates, including graduate schemes.
• Consider whether Postgraduate study 2023 might be the right option for you.
• Check our Prospects Job Profiles which will tell you what skills, work experience and qualifications employers generally look for.
• Reflect on the skills you have already developed to date through your degree, previous job roles or extracurricular activities via our Huddersfield Graduate Attributes Audit.

Looking for ways to gain more experience?

• Find out more about the different types of work experience, including internships, work shadowing, volunteering and gap year opportunities.
• Use sites like Bright Network, Target Jobs and our JobShop to explore graduate internship opportunities.
• Consider whether volunteering could help you develop skills and experience by checking out the opportunities available in Kirklees, nationally and via the Propects website.

Graduate Outcomes

Graduate Outcomes is a national survey that captures the activities and perspectives of graduates 15 months after completing their studies. The responses to the survey are extremely valuable in helping the University of Huddersfield to learn more about where our graduates go after finishing university and how we can better support graduates, current and future students in their career journeys.

You should receive the Graduate Outcomes survey via phone or email from an external organisation 15 months after completing your degree. If you are contacted, please take the time to share your views on your current activity (e.g work, further study, self-employment, volunteering, travelling etc.) and graduate journey so far; the feedback you provide can make a huge difference to the support we provide to current and future generations of University of Huddersfield students and graduates. 

To support the survey, we are required to hold accurate contact details for you, including a personal email address, at least one telephone number, and a postal address (this can be a parental/guardian address). Please remember to update your details here. This will also enable us to continue to provide you with relevant careers advice, support and opportunities specially for Huddersfield graduates.

Find out more about the survey, as well as how your answers and data is used and processed, on the Graduate Outcomes Q&A page.