If you start thinking about your future from the first year at University, you’ll find that when it comes to your final year, you’ll be in a great position to secure a role that interests and excites you. We’re here to help you by giving support and advice when you need it and we guide you in putting a plan in place to reach your goals.
Getting involved in student life
It’s really important to make the most from your time here at university. The more connections you make the more you’ll gain from your experience. Make sure to take the time to look around and see what opportunities you want to take advantage of.
Join societies, there’s something for everyone, sports clubs, represent your course mates as a student representative, attend extra curricular activities or perhaps become a student ambassador. We want you to gain the skills and experience that employers are looking for and will help you to stand out from the crowd when you leave.
Visit the Student’s Union to find out more about all the activities and opportunities available.
What you can do next
Kick start your future by engaging in the careers and employability activity and support available to you as a student at Sheffield University Management School.
Don’t miss a thing by visiting Career Connect today. Career Connect is the university’s dedicated platform for booking onto a range of events, finding paid opportunities, and getting advice on the next step in your career.
Explore
If you are unsure about how to start or what to do next, you are not alone. Find out about how we can help you and how to start thinking about your career. You do not need to plan the rest of your life right now, just the next step. Here are some useful resources to help in Getting Started.
Futures First: Professional Self-Management
The First Year Futures First core module provides you with a structured and supported process to critically reflect upon your own learning, performance and achievements, and to plan for your personal, educational and career development.
The module is underpinned by a critical-thinking tool, the Career Development Plan, which encourages you to identify roles within organisations that can help you achieve both your career and life goals.
The module is assessed using written and verbal forms of communication designed to give you an opportunity to share your ideas with others in formats which are useful for recruitment purposes.
Check out the Futures First pages on the management school website for lots more information including the module overview, testimonials and associated Sheffield Graduate Attributes.
What can I do with my degree?
There’s lots of help and support for choosing a career path to suit you. As a starting point take a look at these resources and explore your options.
If you would like to use your subject knowledge from your degree in your career, or in thinking of further study, check out the possible career paths by sector and function. The more you know about careers the more confident you will feel about identifying those that interest you and match your skills and abilities as a graduate of the management school.
Exploring a placement year
As a home or international undergraduate student, you have the option to add a placement year to your degree. In simple terms, you can add a 38+ weeks placement to your degree and graduate on a four year degree recognising your placement as an integrated part of your degree programme.
You may have already decided you want to add a placement year to your degree. You may have only just started thinking about this as a possibility. Whatever stage you are at with exploring placement year options, the employability team are here to support you at every stage. As a first year student you will be invited to various information sessions throughout the year. Keep an eye out for Employability Hub Headlines emails.
Can’t wait to find out more? You can access a lot of useful information aimed at first year students, including case studies from previous students, in the placements handbook.
Careers Mentoring
If you want to find out more about what a particular job involves day to day and the best route in, a mentor can be a great sounding board for your ideas, and help you to gain a better understanding of the job market. Find out more here about the benefits of mentoring and how it works.
Know yourself
All management school students have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and attributes throughout their academic studies, work experiences and extra curricular activities.
mySkills is an online tool to help you identify, develop and record reflections (development experiences) on your skills and attributes that you can then use in conversations with tutors, a careers advisor, for interview preparation and even for reflective assignments.
You can access mySkills through Career Connect and you can find out more information about mySkills here.
By monitoring your progress against the Sheffield Graduate Attributes you will graduate as a self aware reflective practitioner.
Team Focus
Another good place to start would be to complete some personality tests on Team Focus, which would allow you to understand how you work and what your career preferences are based on your personality profile.
Work Experience
