Research Career Options
Successful course, degree, course, career and course decisions begin with knowing who you are and what you can offer. Qualified Careers, Internships & Employment staff are here to help you, as are these resources:
Card Sorts
Use card sorts in the Careers, Internships & Employment Resource Area to identify your values, skills and job interest areas.
Online Career Planning Tools
Online career planning tools can be valuable for matching your most strongly preferred skills, interests and subjects to job options. The four online career planning tools below enable you to do this. We encourage you not to take the results of these tools as "the last word," rather to see them as a way to generate job ideas that you can research and futher evaluate.
You need to make an appointment with a Career Consultant to access:
Careers Internships & Employment also recommend these online tools that you can access independently:
If you would like to discuss the results of doing one of these online assessments please feel free to make an appointment with a Career Consultant.
Books and DVDs
A collection of books and DVD's on all aspects of careers and job hunting are available at Careers, Internships & Employment. Please produce your Canterbury card and loan books and DVD's will be signed out to you for 24 hours. Please note a small number of books are available for reference only.
Employer Information
Log on to UC CareerHub to find out more about the Student & Graduate Recruitment Programme, vacancies, Careers Fairs & events, and upcoming employer infomation sessions on campus. Use our Resource Area and read information on private and public companies and organisations. Browse through our archived Job Vacancy folders to get a fuller picture of the criteria sought by employers for a wide range of graduate positions.
Additional Career Infomation
To read about career information in relation to your subject major, degree or job interest areas visit:
- What can I do with a Degree in
- What can I do with my Degree
- Careers New Zealand
- Graduate Careers Australia
- Job Outlook, Australia
- My Future, Australia
- Prospects, UK
- Florida State University Careers Center, USA
- O*NET OnLine, USA