Continued support through CareerConnect
Register for an account on CareerConnect, and you will be able to:
- Search our job vacancy board on CareerConnect (most of the positions advertised are for immediate availability)
- Attend our careers fairs and most other events
- Sign up for our Monthly Alumni Careers Newsletter which is sent by e-mail. You can do this by editing your communication preferences in on your alumni office account.
Unfortunately some of our services are only available to current students (for example our exclusive internship programmes, the Student Consultancy, and other skill-development programmes). Please contact us if you would like clarification on eligibility.
Attend tailored events
As well as allowing alumni to attend our regular events we also have tailored events:
- Virtual Weekly Alumni Careers Workshops
- Monthly Career Management Strategy Masterclass Webinar
- Alumni @ the Fair
- MBTI personality assessments
You can find these events and book your place in the events calendar in CareerConnect, or by browsing our term planner.
Virtual Weekly Alumni Careers Workshops
These weekly workshops allow alumni to talk to the Alumni Careers Adviser Dr Mike Moss, share their concerns and needs and allow him to signpost resources.
There is a pattern to alumni careers appointment, most fall into one of these types:
- I am lost or at a crossroads, how do I figure out what to do?;
- I know what I want to do, but I am not getting interviews; and
- I am getting interviews but I am not getting offers.
Whether these resonate with you or you have another specific question, the weekly workshops are small open forum where you can ask your questions whether they fall into the above categories or not.
You can find these events and book your place in the events calendar in CareerConnect or by browsing the events feed at the bottom of this page.
Career Management Strategy Masterclass Webinar
The monthly Career Management Strategy Masterclass Webinar is a three hour webinar that covers:
- Overview of the job market and key oxonian destinations
- How we can make better decisions by thinking like an inventor or designer
- How we can think more creatively
- A research based approach to developing a career strategy
- Counter-intuitive tips and tricks for job applications
- How to prepare for an interview.
You can find these events and book your place in the events calendar in CareerConnect.
Alumni @ the Fair
Alumni are welcome at our Careers Fairs. Of course the recruiters attend fairs to promote graduate entry positions, so these events are mostly relevant to alumni in their twenties. The booklet for the fair will be released about one week before the fair, but the previous year’s booklet will be available in PDF form, so that you can plan roughly who to meet. Target 6 to 10 employers, do research on them, approach them at the fair enthusiastically, say what you like about them demonstrating your research and engage them in a well researched question.
Advice appointments for recent alumni
Recent alumni, which we define as normally those within two years of their course-end date, can access one-to-one careers advice appointments outside normal term-time (priority in weeks 0-9 of each term is given to current students).
Alumni appointments are held online using Teams. If you would like to request an alternative platform or phone call for your appointment please let us know when you book. To book an advice appointment, simply log into CareerConnect, select “Alumni Careers Appointment (within 2 years of completing)” and choose a session from the list available.
It is also possible to arrange to meet in-person, if you would like to explore potential availability for an in-person appointment please email hello@careers.ox.ac.uk.
MBTI personality assessments
We offer a number of assessments that can assist matriculated students and alumni with their career planning, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the DISC behavioural assessment tool. If in doubt contact alumni@careers.ox.ac.uk before purchase. If you are not a matriculated student or alumni nor a member research staff of Oxford University you should not apply.
A one-to-one feedback (1 hour) using an online questionnaire either face-to-face or over Teams costs £40 including VAT. Please select the Web MBTI option on the University online store.
A longer on-line-questionnaire which uses factor analysis to refine an individual profile 5 times more detailed than the web MBTI option above, followed by a one hour one-to-one feedback either face-to-face or over Teams costs £90 including VAT. Please select the Step2 MBTI option on the University online store.
The Myers-Briggs Company (TMBC) is the European provider of MBTI questionnaires, these fees cover TMBC prices plus related taxes and administration costs. The careers service provides the MBTI practitioner free of charge without any attempt to recoup practitioner nor training costs. Commercial MBTI charges normally range from £100 to £150.
Shortly after payment Dr. Mike Moss will be in touch by e-mail to agree a one-to-one meeting appointment, depending on your order. If he happens to be out of the office there may be a short delay, your patience is appreciated. Please book and pay online.
