Occupational Information

We suggest you begin your research with the Use your Subject section of the Graduate Prospects website.

Occupational profiles give occupational information on these and other careers.

Another useful career ideas generator is to look at what previous graduates have done.

The following resources are particularly relevant to your degree.

• 'What can I do with a Law Degree?', M McAlpine. Publ Trotmans. For reference in Careers Library
• AGCAS Legal Sector Briefing (paper copies in Careers Library)
• Hobsons Graduate Careers Guide to Law
• Focus on Law. In KH Library.
• Target Law. In KH Library
• The Training Contract and Pupillage Handbook (Copies in Careers Library- while stocks last)
• Occupational files in Careers Library

Remember to also consider careers which use the wider skills and aptitudes developed over the course of your degree.

• AGCAS occupational profiles
• AGCAS sector briefings
• GTI Careerscape
• Inside Careers
• Gradunet
• Career guides such as Hobsons Guides and Target series include case studies of people working in a variety of major sectors. Available in Careers Service (while stocks last)

Occupational information will explain what a career usually involves, the skills and interests needed and the qualifications and entry routes. It provides an objective overview of the key characteristics of a particular occupation, for the purpose of helping the reader arrive at a careers decision. Thus it is quite different from recruitment literature which promotes specific jobs with particular companies.

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