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Job Search Careers Research can fall into several categories and the aim of this guide is to pinpoint some of the top tools and key resource areas. You may wish to consult some of our industry specific research guides such as Energy, Property or Pharmaceuticals and the following general guides should also prove useful: Guide to Company Information, Guide to Market Research, Guide to Researching Business People Library Careers Collection There is a collection of careers titles in Taunton Library separate from the main book stock. These can be borrowed in the usual way and include books on: top employers, how to write winning resumes (CVs), interviewing techniques, assessment tests, and guides to jobs in various industries. These are listed in the Library catalogue and are clearly labelled “Careers Collection”. The Library catalogue is on Portal: Portal>Library>Top Search Tools Contacts The Careers Service offer comprehensive and detailed help on their Portal pages and have specialists in finance, industry and consulting who you can contact.

1 Career Choices & Personal Competencies Library Catalogue for careers books BestofBiz for career advice, personal development, and professional skills. Careers Services industry specialists Student Clubs for industries and sectors 2 Researching Job Roles/Functions & Skill Sets Vault (online) Wetfeet guides (print) 3 Salary & Benefits IDS Guides Various websites 4 Finding Vacancies Careers Services Bloomberg (Not just finance jobs) Newspapers Industry publications and websites (see Industry Section)

5 Networking & Researching People Executive Grapevine Capital IQ Student Clubs 6 Researching Industries & Markets. Following Library Research Guides: Energy, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Real Estate, Telecoms, Travel and Tourism 7 Researching Companies See Guide to Company Research for full list Top recommendations: Factiva Hoovers Capital IQ Vault Fame, Amadeus & Osiris 8 Applying,Testing and Interviewing Careers Service Portal Pages Careers Books in the Library

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1 Career Choices & Personal Competencies Developing your career strategy is the first stage in the career planning process. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is vital to the process of identifying those roles and positions that you will be both happy and successful in. Careers Services The Careers Services page on Portal offers detailed help with links to self assessment tools: Portal>Career Services>Career Planning Process>Career Strategy Library Catalogue We have a comprehensive collection of books on careers topics. The catalogue is available from the School’s web site or via Portal. Go to: Portal>Library>Top Search Tools Titles by Wetfeet and Vault are held and others may be purchased on request. Examples of books held in the Careers collection include: What Colour is my Parachute By Richard Bolles Careers Collection, Shelfmark NR Career change handbook: how to find out what you're good at and what you enjoy - then get someone to pay you for it. By Graham Green Careers Collection Shelfmark NR

BestofBiz for careers skills. A business and management website that contains articles, management current awareness and guides to best practice. Go to: Portal>Library>A-Z list of Databases>BestofBizGold As well as research guides on topics such as: Private Equity, Insurance and Property this website is useful for workplace and personal development skills such as: Personal Development: Are You in the Right Job? Personal Development: Making an Impact at Interviews Personal Development: Creating a Career Plan Personal Effectiveness: Taking Charge of Your Career

2 Researching Job Roles/Functions & Skill Sets Researching the different types of work people do within organisations and sectors you can start to understand what kind of jobs would best meet your objectives.

Careers Services Portal Careers Services>Researching Resources>Researching Roles>Researching Job Functions Use the careers pages on Portal where you can find suggestions on how to find out about what a job entails and further suggestions on how to carry out informal research such as through the Alumni network and student clubs.

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Vault - Key Resource Profile Portal>Library >A-Z List of Databases>Vault Vault is a specialised job search product and a key careers resource. It offers guidance on all aspects of job search: networking, interviewing and CV (resume) writing and also provides industry reviews and occupational profiles with guides to the top employers within and industry and finally specific company profiles. To take GE as an example: Vault Company Data Go to the home page and pick Company On this page browse the A-Z list or enter the name. You can get a company Gold Snapshot which tells you about the history and personality of the company. You can also link to Employer Surveys which are personal views (not verified or endorsed by Vault) Also here you will fund the Message Board where you can raise questions such as asking for an explanation of a company’s pay scales

Vault Industry data

Employers, Top Insurance Employers,

Go to the Industry Employer Guides These include sector studies: Top Internet Industry Top Energy Employers. There are a limited number of Employer Profiles on the big consultancy and finance companies listed individually. Or link to the downloads on the home page where you can access the meatier Vault Career Guides to Biotech, Consulting etc. (NB some are in print in the Library)

Vault Career Topics You can find the links from the Homepage. It includes links to short articles on MBA Internships and cover letter. Or go the Download section for their detailed guides on: Schmoozing, Guide to the Case Interview, Guide to starting your own Business etc.

Wetfeet guides (print) Check the Library catalogue. Includes such titles as: Careers in Management Consulting Limited content is available on the public website: http://www.wetfeet.com/ Prospects UK (some International) UK’s Official Graduate Careers Website http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/p!elmjX Useful sections which describe what a certain job roles entail. The business categories are rather broad and finance is not at the level of detail that a specialist might need. Offers RSS feeds for jobs in your selected category.

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3 Salary & Benefits There are a number of services which offer pay data. Some data will be available for free but for more comprehensive data you may have to pay. Some examples of pay sources have been listed below but if you find other useful sources please let us know: email: [email protected] IDS Executive Compensation Review UK This provides a monthly briefing on the salaries and benefits of managerial staff. Some interesting examples include: January 2007 311 – Salary Survey Review of: Top Executives February 2007 312 – Salary Survey Review of: Non-executive directors, top executives in smaller companies, personnel specialists, charity sector March 2007 Research File 76 - Pay and progression for graduates 2007 April 2007 317 – Salary Survey Review of: Property Professionals, Pension Specialists May 2007 315 – Salary survey review of European Executives July 2007 317 – Salary Survey Review of: Executives, Finance Specialists Held in print only in the serials section of the Library. IDS Pay Benchmark – Three issues per year UK Identifies pay and conditions packages applying to employees carrying our different types of jobs. It includes blue and white collar jobs but excludes certain professional groups such as lawyers. It sets out the pay, hours, holidays, shift allowances in named companies and organizations. ie a Marketing Officer at Rolls Royce. It also includes industry and Public sector agreements. Three issues per year. Held in print only in the serials section of the Library. PayWizard http://www.paywizard.co.uk/ UK & GLOBAL Check your salary in London or for other countries/cities around the world - look for the country links at the bottom of the page. Free web resource Reed UK http://www.reed.co.uk/CareerTools/SalaryCalculator.aspx Enter the industry and postcode and Reed’s salary calculator offers a summary of average salaries across the website. Free web resource SalaryExpert.com Global http://www.salaryexpert.com/ Has some free data from the Economics Research institute (www.erieri.co.uk) Can search for job title and country or major metropolitan area. Free web resource CareerJournal.com UK http://www.careerjournal.com/salaryhiring/ Part of the Wall Street Journal site. It has salary data and hiring trends for various industries. You can search for salaries by job title. Free web resource

Finance Salary Surveys

UK

http://www.totallyfinancial.com/content/home/career_centre/ss_home The website Totally Financial links to salary surveys from 10 different organisations: Badenoch & Clark, Holden Jones, Brightwater, Michael Page, Hays, Witan Jardine, Robert Walters, Joslin Rowe, ECHM

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4 Finding Vacancies The internet provides a huge number of possibilities to browse for jobs and a number of sites offer alerting services. The Library receives a selection of international quality daily newspapers which you can browse and many advertise their jobs online. Newspaper Job Sites: A few examples are given below: Daily Telegraph http://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/?CMP=KNC-umknc01_jo_78_ggl_JoG&HBX_PK=telegraph+jobs&HBX_OU=50

FT Jobs

UK & GLOBAL

http://recruitment.ft.com/texis/jobsearch

From the Financial Times. Guardian Jobs

UK

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/?CMP=KNC-Google&HBX_PK=guardian+jobs&HBX_OU=50

Good for public sector, education, media, graduate and permanent IT positions. Times and Sunday Times UK http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/ With links to the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for and the Top 100 Graduate Employers. Le Monde

France

http://www.talents.fr/web/sequence/0,2-3504,1-0,0.html

Wall Street Journal

USA

http://www.careerjournal.com/

Good website for all aspects of career planning and applying for jobs. It includes a current job search function. El Pais

Spain

http://empleo.elpais.com/

Times of India India http://www.timesjobs.com/timesJobWebApp/tj/HomeIndex.jsp

Finance: EfinancialCareers International http://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/ Covers accounting, finance and IT in Finance. Can post your CV, run a search for jobs or get RSS feeds on the job market and pay news. Careers in Finance USA http://www.careers-in-finance.com/ Run by jobsinthemoney this site describes briefly jobs in different industries and list a few top companies. You can search by firm, area of business (accounting, banking, corporate finance, wealth management) or post your CV or advertise a job - for a fee.

Totally Financial USA (UK and Australia) http://www.totallyfinancial.com/content/home/advertise Offers email alerts, job search advice and salary surveys.

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Bloomberg International Cover careers in all areas, not just finance. Type in JOBS

General Vacancies Websites: A few examples are listed here: http://www.executivesontheweb.com/uk/ International (good for UK) Offers detailed search and alerting services for executive jobs in the UK http://www.monster.co.uk/ UK (some International) Offers job search, newsfeeds and podcasts plus a range of other career tools. http://www.simplyhired.com/ USA Simply Hired is a US job search engine that searches over 5 million US job listings on job boards, classifieds and corporate sites. Subscribers can receive an RSS feed or e-mail alert when a job that meets their parameters occurs.

Recruitment Agencies A roundup of online recruitment agencies taken from the NORA (National Online Recruitment Awards) To find the full list of winners go to: http://www.alljobsuk.com/awards/awards2006/Norawinners.shtml

Best General Jobsite

Best Specialist Jobsite

Best Regional Jobsite

Best Online Recruitment Section by a Consumer Publication

Best Online Recruitment Section by a Trade Publication

Best Employment Advice Website

Jobsite Monster Reed Totaljobs JobCentreplus Jobsite Monster Fish4jobs Totaljobs Reed

Jobserve Jobsgopublic eFinancialCareers Jobs.ac.uk Executivesontheweb Jobs4Medical JustEngineers

YorkshireJobs LondonJobs s1jobs ManchesterOnline Gumtree

Prospects Graduate The Guardian TheTelegraph The Times Online The Scotsman

The Lawyer The Grocer The Engineer Personnel Today New Scientist Computer Weekly

Learn Direct Jobs.ac.uk The Fuller CV Inside Careers Monster Career Consultants CV Services Prospects.ac.uk

Executive Search and Interim Management: Executive Grapevine International This directory contains profiles of over 1,000 executive search firms operating in more than 67 countries worldwide. Current issue held in the Library in print at: 71 ABG/ACFB

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5 Networking & Researching People All careers experts agree that networking is the most important element in career planning and searching for a job and in reality it underpins the entire process. For further coverage of this topic go to: Portal> Career Services> Career Planning Process>Network

There are numerous books in the Library on this topic – check the catalogue and some useful overviews on BestofBiz Gold on Portal such as: Building a Fantastic Contact List How to Network and Market Yourself Test the Waters: Learn How to Network

Website by Richard Bolles author of What Colour is Your Parachute http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/contacts/index.php Has a detailed section on contacts and networking – rather American in bias. Book held in the library at: Careers NR

Capital IQ A Database that requires prior registration. Portal>Library> A-Z List of Databases>Capital IQ registration request Has good coverage of board members and executives. The scope of information includes: contact information, educational background, current and previous board affiliations, and speciality. It is possible to run a search to filter executives that match a given criteria. ie graduates from a particular university working in a specific job role in a certain region. You can also map the person’s web of professional relationships up to two degrees of separation by clicking on the Relationship Tree link. It is also excellent for detailed company financial data.

6 Researching Industries & Markets This is a huge area and you should consult the library guide to market research. Go to Portal>Library> Help and Advice>Research Resource Guides> Market Research There are also a number of industry research guides to: Energy, Pharmaceutical, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Real Estate, Telecoms, Travel and Tourism.

However you should also refer to the Researching Resources section in the Careers area of Portal and also the industry, finance and consulting sections. Also don’t forget: Vault gives a good brief overview of industry sectors. Student Clubs can offer helpful personal insights. Library – contact the information specialists: [email protected] for help with researching an industry.

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7 Researching Companies Once again this is a huge area and there is a detailed Library guide on this subject. Go to: Portal>Library> Help and Advice>Research Resource Guides>Company Information To pick out a few key databases: Factiva Good for comprehensive international news, professional and trade press coverage plus brief company profiles Hoovers Good for company history and overviews Fame (UK), Amadeus (Europe), Osiris, (International) For company financials. Also includes smaller private companies in UK and Europe. Good to filter companies that match your specific criteria and produce mailing lists. Vault If you are interested in the company as an employer and want to get an insider’s view.

8 Applying, Testing & Interviewing Look at the Careers Services section in Portal under Skills Development for detailed advice, useful links and detail of coaching offered. Most of the Career focused websites offer guidance such as: Vault, Wetfeet, and CareerJournal.com. There are numerous books in the Library on how to write winning CVs and about passing tests and succeeding at interview. Examples include: Ultimate CV: win senior managerial positions with an outstanding résumé Library Careers Collection FBGB How to pass selection tests Library Careers Collection FBGG Answering tough interview questions for dummies Library Careers Collection FBGD There are several types of interviews you will also need to be aware of, each of which requires a different approach and preparation, including: competency-based interviews, assessment centres, case study interviews, panel interviews and telephone interviews. Go to: Portal Careers Services Section > Career Planning Process> Interview. Here you can find an overview of these different interview methods. Also consult Vault which may tell you about the interviewing techniques employed by certain firms as well as offering plenty of advice on these subjects.

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