The following two sites include detailed profiles for a very wide range of job types with links to contacts and further resources.

Occupations section of the Graduate Prospects website – the key UK site for graduate careers information.  This offers in-depth profiles on a wide range of graduate job types and advice on how to get into them.

Jobs4u:  This database gives profiles of occupations including ones that do not necessarily require graduate level entry qualifications.  It is part of the Connexions Service in England that helps young people with advice on getting where they want to be in life.

TotalProfessions.com :  This site brings together information that Professional Bodies provide on professional careers, routes of entry, internships, graduate schemes and professional qualifications as well as available funding to gain professional qualifications.

Using your degree:  Most graduate employers are interested in the broad range of skills you have gained during your time at university, not just your subject.  So you will most probably find there are many more options open to you than you may have imagined.

 

Some further sites to help you get started:

http://targetjobs.co.uk/graduate-jobs/ - TARGET Jobs
http://www.get.hobsons.co.uk - Hobsons 
http://www.insidecareers.co.uk - Inside Careers 

Job matching and career management software:  online services that enable you to:

• build a profile of your interests, skills, qualifications and work values,
• match your profile with possible career options that you could explore further,
• develop your career  ideas.

Ethical careers:  Information to help you explore the types of careers and organisations that relate to your work values.

While you are exploring different types of work, you may wish to think about how  you want to work - e.g.

Flexible working:  Options to help fit your work around other commitments and create a better work/life balance - see information on the Graduate Prospects website.

Self employment:  If you are interested in working for yourself, see the Entrepreneurship section of this site.

Gap year:  Find out how to use time out for personal and career development.

 As you explore different career options, start to think about them in  the context of:

• Understanding the graduate job market
  
• Developing commercial awareness.

Frequently asked questions:  Some pages on certain career options that we get asked about a lot.