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Search skills in the workplace

Apply the skills developed on your degree course after you graduate.

The information skills you have developed during your degree will be invaluable in your professional life, from gathering information for decision-making, to interacting with information on the web, to maintaining current awareness.

Transferable skills

The information skills you have developed on your course are transferable. You will have:

  • Planned and executed effective searches for information.
  • Critically appraised or evaluated the information you found.
  • Interpreted, compiled, and reported information in coursework.

The resources below explore the relevance of these skills to the workplace. They identify some professional frameworks and guidelines to support your interactions with information, and further introduce you to freely available resources to source information after you have graduated.

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Career planning

Your information skills will also be useful in finding information about prospective employers.

Support with this process is available from the Careers and Employability Service.

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Subject resource: Researching employers

 

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