Getting some career ideas
If you are not sure what you want to do after you graduate then this is the section for you.
Although some of you may know what you want to do after you graduate, if you are not sure then don’t worry, you are not alone. The working world is complex and although some of you may have a relatively straightforward career that you go into after graduation and stay there for the rest of your working life you will be in the minority. In fact it is not at all uncommon for new graduates to take several years to work their way into a graduate level profession, take a range of jobs in short succession, to manage multiple careers (a portfolio career), to choose a lifestyle career or to take an alternative career path like starting up in business or taking a gap year.
Whatever you choose to do will depend on who you are, what motivates you and what you want to get out of work as well as the skills and work experience you have to offer an employer.
Next steps
Getting an understanding of where you want to go with your career depends on three things: knowing yourself, knowing what opportunities are out there, and taking action! You will find the following pages on this site a useful way to work through these areas:
If you are just looking for some inspiration, or taking the first steps to thinking about careers you might find our 'get inspired' pages useful.
Other useful websites
The Prospects and Skills Development Scotland databases of jobs and careers – where you can look up key information about different jobs and training routes
The ‘What do UHI Graduates do?’ pages on this website that give you some ideas of things you could do with your degree
The ‘Graduate jobs’ section on this website for details of current graduate vacancies
The voluntary work, further study and taking a year out pages on this website for details about these alternative options.
Career matching programmes which can suggest different careers that might suit you that are available include the prospects planner or, if you fancy something a bit different you could try the visual career-matching tool from Skills Development Scotland.
