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Books on career planning

The Graduate Jobs Formula

This book explains how you can succeed in finding a graduate job in the current competitive labour market. It aims to give you a headstart on your competitors and an insight into how graduate recruiters think and behave.

  • Author: Paul Redmond

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

The Graduate Career Guidebook

This book divides the career journey into manageable steps and helps you navigate each stage, from deciding what you want to do, to gaining work experience, networking effectively, conducting a job hunt, writing a knock-out CV, impressing at interview and getting the job.

  • Author: Steve Rook

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

Let Go of my Leg!

Information for working mothers who are planning on returning to work.

  • Author: Lees, Kirsten

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

Moving On In Your Career

A career planning and professional development guide for academic researchers and postgraduates.

  • Author: Lynda Ali and Barbara Graham

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

Brilliant Employability Skills

This book aims to help you to identify and develop the employability skills that will give you the edge in the job market.

  • Author: Frances Trought

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

How to Get a Job You'll Love

This book aims to help you to identify the career you really want. It contains exercises to focus on your skills and potential as well as advice on job-search strategies.

  • Author: Lees. John

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

Stand Out from the Crowd: Key Skills for Study, Work and Life

This book highlights skills that employers are looking for and explains how you can provide evidence of them in your job applications.

  • Author: Laura Dorian and Eleanor Loughlin

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

Fifty Ways to Boost your Employability

This book contains 50 tips and activities that will help you think about career options and enhance your career prospects.

  • Author: Stella Cottrell
  • Published: 2019

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.

You're Hired - Graduate Career Handbook

This book offers wide-ranging advice on planning your career, including strategies for identifying job types that would suit you, tips on making the most of your time at university and recommendations for finding and applying for jobs.

  • Author: Tristam Hooley and Korin Grant

This book is available to borrow from the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Please check the library catalogue for details.