Author: Jill Jameson

IT Workshop:

 Career search: Planning for Life after Criminology. Where am I now and how to I get to where I want to be?

Looking at Mahara portfolios as a way of collating and storing your information and researching what graduates can do with a criminology degree (2 Hours).

 Task: Following on from the IT sessions, prepare a 5 minute presentation on Life after Criminology using 6 attractive power-point slides. This does not have to be a job in the criminal justice system. You can do the following:

• Concentrate on one particular career strand/post graduate course/training opportunity/travel opportunity in detail;
• Do a more general presentation and cover a number of different examples, if you are interested in lots different things (but remember that you only have 5 mins);
• If you don’t know what you want to do, you could identify where you might look for information to help your career planning eg detailing specific websites or even reflective exercises (career anchors/dots analysis);
• You could reflect about whether there are opportunities to start your own business.

 Criteria:

•  Presentations must be kept to exactly 5 minutes.
• Tutors will indicate when you have 30 seconds remaining, and will stop you at 5 minutes.
• You must use 6 power-point slides to illustrate your presentation.
• Presentations will be informally commented on by the tutor in the seminars.

 

Presentation Seminar 2 Hours:

Individual student presentations of your findings about your potential ‘Life after criminology’. All students will undertake a 5 minute presentation on how you see your future life after criminology using 6 attractive power-point slides.

• You can do the following:
• Concentrate on one particular career strand/post graduate course/training opportunity/travel opportunity in detail;
• Do a more general presentation and cover a number of different examples, if you are interested in lots different things (but remember that you only have 5 mins);
• If you don’t know what you want to do, you could identify where you might look for information to help your career planning eg detailing specific websites or even reflective exercises (career anchors/dots analysis);
• You could reflect about whether there are opportunities to start your own business.

 REMEMBER THIS IS ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND DOES NOT NEED TO BE A CRIME JOB!

 Task for next week:

• Look also at community volunteers at http://www.lincolnsu.com/volunteer
• Look in to the ‘Lincoln Award’. http://lincolnsu.com/lincolnaward

Seminar: Developing skills:

 The University provides opportunities for you to develop your employability skills both within and outside of your degree. This seminar identifies some of these opportunities and discusses how you can make the best use of what is available.

 The seminar will include:

•  DVD presentation of ‘Life after Criminology’.
• A discussion session with level 3 students and alumni that are taking part in the mentor and internship schemes (1 hour).

 Task for working group:

In your working groups, develop three questions to ask the Practitioner in next week’s lecture.

Click here for access to the  Community Volunteers site.

Click here for a link to UoL careers page on CV writing.