Using the Careers Service in person

You are very welcome to pop in to talk to Careers Service staff and/or browse our collections of resources. Many careers events take place in training rooms within the Careers Service.

Many services are available from the Careers Service website, notably:

You may find the How to... guides and the Careers Service introductory video useful starting points.

Welcome Desk & Resources Help Desk

Careers Service building interior

Talk to Welcome Desk staff in the first instance, including for requesting an appointment to talk to a Careers Adviser, to borrow loan items, to purchase Careers Service publications and for all other general queries. Welcome Desk staff will ask you questions about the reason(s) for your visit and may refer you to an information specialist at the Resources Help Desk or offer you an appointment to talk a careers adviser. Please note: The more prepared you are before you talk to an adviser, the more efficient use you can make of the appointment time.

For current Bristol staff and students with particular problems getting to and using the Service (such as part-time, distance & placement users), please contact the Welcome Desk:

The Resources Help Desk is staffed by Information Specialists who can help you locate and exploit resources. For more complex enquiries, we aim to reply to your query within five working days. Response times will vary depending on a number of variables including staff availability and the number of concurrent enquiries.

Contact the Resources Help Desk:

Information Services Team members manage and deliver Welcome Desk and Resources Help Desk services.

Print and electronic resources

Print stock, both reference-only materials and free publications, are on open access.

Subject resources - information about...

Many books and files are 'reference only', for use in the Careers Service only (except where we have loan copies, identified by a red dot on the spine, which can be borrowed for two days; loan items must be taken to the Welcome Desk for issuing). Disabled students may borrow reference items for an agreed time to use with the assistive technology in the Arts and Social Science Library such as print magnifier, text-to-speech reader, and scanner.

Full details of all print and electronic resources are available.

Free publications

Please visit the Careers Service to pick up free copies of a number of annual publications including:

We take the Guardian newspaper (Monday to Friday), the Bristol Evening Post (Wednesday only - jobs supplement) and the Times Higher Education. You may also want to explore journals.

Facilities

Guides

Recommend a purchase

Current Bristol staff and students can also contact the Resources Help Desk with suggestions for the purchase of careers related books and other materials; please include author/editor, title, publisher, date of publication, format and price details.

Requesting the Careers Service provides a hyperlink to your website?

The University of Bristol Careers Service receives a very high volume of web link requests on a frequent basis. Consequently, requests are unlikely to be considered unless they are either firmly based on recommendations from current University of Bristol students and staff or if they fill a gap in our resource collection.