New to the great graduate job-hunt? Where do you start?

New term, new academic year… time for some fresh thinking about your future graduate career. Whether you’re a newcomer to career planning or about to start your final year primed and ready to apply for graduate schemes, the advice on targetjobs.co.uk will help you get through to the next stage.

If you have no idea at all of what you’d like to do and don’t know where to begin, spend some time browsing our A-Z of careers, which has more than 300 job descriptions, from academic librarian to zookeeper, and explains the typical tasks, qualifications and training required, and key skills for each.

If you already have an idea of the career sector that interests you, turn to our in-depth careers sector advice sections for insight into everything from what it’s really like on the job to salaries, career progression prospects and tips on successful applications.

In a tough graduate jobs market, you’ll need work experience to give you an edge in your applications – and to make sure you’re on the right path. Use our work experience section to find out how to make yourself more employable while you study and to plan ahead for great internships that can lead directly onto employers’ graduate training schemes.

Make a plan to check in with your university careers service once you’re back on campus. Find out what workshops will be going on during your first term back and what personal attention you can get to help with your job hunt.

If you’ve put off thinking about graduate careers, feel down about your prospects because of the barrage of negative headlines about the graduate jobs market, and are now starting your final year… don’t panic! Our news blog will keep you posted about the graduate jobs market recovery in different sectors, and it’s never too late to get started.

Posted by Alison_TARGETjobs on 24 August 2010

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