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Life After... Social Studies

A Practical Guide to Life After Your Degree

By Sally Longson

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• ISBN: 978-0-415-41247-6
• Binding: Paperback
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 7th June 2007
• Pages: 192

About the Book

Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfect detail – but for most, things are not nearly so simple. Armed with your hard-earned degree the possibilities and career paths lying before you are limitless, and the number of choices you suddenly have to make can seem bewildering.

Life After ... Social Studies has been written specifically to help students currently studying, or who have recently graduated, make informed choices about their future lives. It will be a source of invaluable advice and wisdom to business graduates (whether you wish to use your degree directly or not), covering such topics as:

• Identifying a career path that interests you
• Seeking out an opportunity that matches your skills and aspirations
• Staying motivated and pursuing your goals
• Networking and self-promotion
• Making the transition from scholar to worker

• Putting the skills you have developed at university to good use in life.

The Life After ... series of books are more than simple ‘career guides’. They are unique in taking a holistic approach to career advice - recognising the increasing view that, although a successful working life is vitally important, other factors can be just as essential to happiness and fulfilment. They are the indispensable handbooks for students considering their future direction.

Table of Contents

1. Decisions, decisions… 2. Creating your Career 3. Next Steps to Achieving Your Goals 4. Connecting with your Network 5. Hunting Out that Right Opportunity 6. Proving yourself: From Scholar to Worker 7. Applying Some Self-Promotion 8. What’s Stopping You? 9. Moving on…Your future 10. Here’s to Life!

About the Author(s)

Short....

Sally Longson is a life coach and a well-known writer and media commentator in the field of careers.

CV...

An enthusiastic individual and a self-starter, who likes to make things happen. Driven to helping people make the most of their lives and careers, to giving them a sense of control in a rapidly-changing world and to help them find their niche. Aiming to inspire them in a very human way and raise their awareness of what is possible.

2003 – 2004: Life and Career Coach, Speaker and Writer

Life and Career Coach:

Specific interests: career coaching, work/life balance, values and making a difference

Helping people make the most of their lives; to set goals and achieve them, overcoming barriers along the way.

Set up own practice.

Speaker:

Changing Roles, Institute for Qualified and Professional Secretaries, Scotland AGM, April 2004

Creating Change, at the Samaritans Conference in Jersey (November 2003);

Appeared on Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show to talk about Dead-End Jobs (August 2003) and other BBC local stations.

Writer for:

The Q & A section on The Times On-Line (February 2004)

Contributed to article on Student Finance (yet to be published) in Prima magzine

Careers page on www.deskdemon.com a web site for office professionals;

Cash and Careers Page, Sugar Magazine for teenagers;

1996–present: Author of these life and career changing books:

Returning to Work (3^rd edition, February 2004, How To Books Ltd)

Choosing Your Career, (2^nd edition, February 2004, Kogan Page Ltd in conjunction with The Times)

Changing Your Career (2nd edition, October 2003), Kogan