Welcome to Generation Essex
Generation Essex is the career support package for final year undergraduate
students who are due to graduate at the end of the academic year. If you have no
idea what you would like to do after Graduation, or if you are already well on
the way to securing your next step, we can help. Join
Generation Essex
and give yourself a fighting chance.
Generation Essex will help you prepare you for life beyond Essex, wherever it
takes you. Once you have signed up we’ll keep you updated about Generation Essex
events throughout the rest of 2018 (including after you graduate) which are
geared to help you develop your CV.
We’ll also keep you in the know about any funding opportunities, internships,
careers support and application support so that you enter the graduate job
market with a jam packed CV that’s ready to take on the world.
What are you waiting for?
Join Generation
Essex or email essexgrad@essex.ac.uk
for more information. You can also call the Employability and Careers Centre on
01206 872494 to book a careers advice appointment.
What happens when you graduate
Lots of things is the short answer! You’ll have your graduation ceremony and
be presented with your degree. You’ll celebrate with your friends and family,
and you’ll take your first step into the working world (or further study).
That last bit is why
joining Generation Essex can mean the difference between getting on the
career ladder for your dream job and just missing out.
The career support package has come about from years of Essex’s Employability
and Careers team helping our graduating students find jobs, plan their careers
and develop key skills that will see our graduates climb that career ladder and
achieve their career goals.
What do you want to do when you graduate?
Considering a Masters?
Look no further than your very own Employability and Careers team who can
help you find the perfect course here at Essex (you get a discount for this!) or
elsewhere. We’ll even help you through your application and help you find
information on funding.
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Masters Support - Find Out More
Starting your job search?
Giving you a fighting chance really is our forte. You’ll have extended access
to CareerHub for three years after
you graduate to help you apply for graduate schemes, jobs and internships.
We can also point you in the direction of
Essex Interns. Heard of them? You should have done, they’re magicians. They
create real and paid internships for all Essex students but they also create
incredible paid graduate internship opportunities just for Essex 2018 graduates
to help you get your foot on the start of your career ladder. A graduate
internship can go a long way to building your CV.
Talking of CVs, you’ll continue to be able to access our careers team for CV
reviews, Application reviews, interview support and one-to-one career
consultations.
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Job Search - Find Out More
Already found your dream job or internship?
Awesome. You’re awesome. Well done! Don’t forget though, you can still access
the Employability and Careers team for all of the extended careers support or
even help you with some development workshops or top-up professional
qualifications in your desired field to make you even better at your job.
Setting up on your own?
Planning to start freelancing? Want to be your own boss? Setting up a new
business? Are you the next Mark Zuckerberg? Or a budding entrepreneur? Yes? Oh,
we have got SO much for you!
A grant to help with your initial business set up costs? Yours.
Thinking of setting up a Theatre Company (this one’s exclusively for East 15
students)? You’ve got funding for that!
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Setting up on your own - Find Out More
Want to teach?
Great decision! Whether you’ve already secured your route into teaching or
not, we are here for you. We have teaching careers experts to help with your
UCAS teacher training application and after that, we can help you secure
work experience, alternative accreditations if you don’t want to take formal
teacher training options and even help you research grants and bursaries to
support your training!
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Want to teach? - Find Out More
To teach in England and Wales you need to gain Qualified Teacher Status
(QTS). This can be obtained by completing a one year Initial Teacher Training
(ITT) programme through either a school-led or university-based route.
You will then have achieved newly qualified teacher (NQT) status and will be
ready to undertake your induction year.
Applications for most teacher training programmes in England and Wales are
made through
UCAS Teacher Training, in the autumn prior to starting training. To find out
more, see routes into teaching. Financial support is available including
bursaries for some subjects depending on degree grade.
You will need to amass at least 2 weeks work experience in schools at the age
range you wish to teach. You will need to contact schools to see what work
experience they can offer you. For a list of schools in England and Wales, check
EduBase.
For more information about how to become a teacher and the different routes
into teaching,
download the Teaching as a Career information sheet.
Want to develop your professional skills?
We’re running career development workshops all the way through your final
year and we'll keep running them after you graduate.
You will benefit from Alumni
professional development and networking events for
life. Look out for your monthly Alumni newsletter, this
will keep you in touch with every single offer we launch
for Essex grads.
For skills development events and workshops, keep your eye on
CareerHub – both
before and after you graduate.