Careers Tutor Web Page

Work in progress - the stuff here is accurate, but the presentation and quantity of material should continue to get better!
Some of the details here are out of date. An update will come by the start of autumn 2010 Upcoming event
Alumni Career Day
December 11
We'll have a panel of recent alumni talk about their jobs and the job search process. Food will be provided to encourage attendance.
General information
This web page will be used to keep a set of links with careers information for Southampton Physics and Astronomy students and recent alumni. My goals as careers tutor is to help students find information about options after graduation -- both academic and non-academic, and to help students to make sure that they are doing what they should be doing in order to have a good chance to take advantage of their opportunites.
A big part of having the best postgraduate opportunities (either for work or for further studies) involves learning physics while here. My responsibilities for that are rather limited unless you are a student in one of my courses, or I am your personal tutor. However, some of how successful you are will depend on other things you might do. I do consider it part of my responsibility to help make sure that you are aware of summer job and/or internship opportunities, so that your curriculum vitae will be as strong as possible, and so that you'll have had a chance to explore what options might be of interest to you. I'll also try to compile web links to companies that have expressed strong interest in Southampton Physics graduates in the past, and help to organize career information events, and direct you to sources of information about how to go about writing your resume, how to go through a job interview and other such things.
For postgraduate studies, your personal tutor will normally be your best resource. However, we will still have some events and I will still compile some information, about general tips for postgraduate studies.
I am new in the role of careers tutor, and that we only briefly had Christian Kaiser in the role in the past, before which the job didn't exist. I am therefore very receptive to suggestions from students about what you want from me.
Finally, we have some important additional resources. Physoc have done a wonderful job with careers events in the recent past. SEPNET has an employability coordinator, Linda Stone, who is working to help students in the six SEPNET institutions (Southampton, Surrey, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kent, and Sussex). Linda is based in our building, and is definitely willing to help with some of this stuff, but we must also remember that her responsibility is to all the SEPNET institutions, and not just Southampton. SEPNET is also new, and its web pages are also, in some cases, works in progress.
The current web pages, which are already useful, and should continue to be more useful over time can be found here. You may also find the Physoc careers and events pages to contain useful information.
Slides from talk about grad schools

Summer opportunities


Contact information:
Office 5061, Physics and Astronomy Building, University of Southampton
Phone from outside the UK:
International calling prefix + 44 23 8059 7548
From inside the UK:
023 8059 7548
From on campus:
27548

Email: tjm-at-(please.no.spam-)astro.soton.ac.uk