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Career enhancement
We equip our postgraduate students with more than just specialist academic skills - we offer support and training that will prepare you for your career.
A postgraduate qualification from Edinburgh will equip you with key qualities that employers are looking for and will give you advantages in the job market.
Careers Service
Our award-winning Careers Service provides information, advice and guidance to postgraduate students for their future career.
As well as offering one-to-one guidance and providing access to careers information, the service offers practical workshops and sessions throughout the year.
These can include information sessions on a range of career areas such as finance, management consultancy or the media.
They can also include CV writing, interview techniques, job-hunting, job applications, presentation skills and aptitude testing.
Transferable skills
Postgraduate research students benefit from support from our Institute for Academic Development (IAD), one of the most established university research and career skills training centres in the UK.
The IAD helps our postgraduate research students gain the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for undertaking a PhD, and to move on to a successful career.
In addition to subject-specific training, the IAD offers training such as:
- research management
- personal effectiveness
- writing and communication skills
- networking and team working
- career management
Developing these broader professional skills and qualities means that our postgraduate research students are in high demand.
Business and enterprise training
We also offer business and enterprise training through a programme of workshops designed to help participants develop their business and entrepreneurial skills.
These provide the opportunity to meet staff from the organisations that can help with establishing a business.
- Institute for Academic Development: business and enterprise training
- LAUNCH.ed: support for student entrepreneurs
Short courses
If you want to extend your education through part-time courses, you will be entitled to a significant discount as a full-time student.
This article was published on May 4, 2012