Prospects Postgrad 1

4 Postgrad ADVICE AND GUIDANCE For love and money For many of us, the way to land our perfect job is to get as many skills as possible. Work experience is one way to get you there but you may be lacking that all important specialist knowledge. This is where postgraduate study comes in. A further qualification can make all the difference between having a job you loathe and a job you love. PERFECT BALANCE ‘Do I love my job? Put it satisfaction but to greater earnings too, especially for women. Female postgrads earned 34% more than female undergraduates. It’s no wonder then that Elouise sounds so enthusiastic, although she says that it took her a while to realise that she needed to do a course to perfect her career. ‘I did an undergraduate degree in psychology at Northumbria and worked for the NHS in a similar training function, but it started out as a more generic training role, working with managing the training needs of a smaller department. I realised that a postgraduate course was what I needed to take me from a more generic training role to really getting out there and finding the exact area that I wanted to be involved with and securing a role in that area.’ Consequently, after returning to Northumbria University, Elouise this way, there isn’t a day when I don’t want to come into work,’ says Elouise Leonard-Croft, who works in leadership and management development for Your Homes Newcastle. ‘For me this job has the perfect balance between helping people to develop and achieve fabulous things while at the same helping to get the most out of them. Perhaps best of all is that the organisation is so committed to developing people and working in an organisational culture like that is amazing. Helping to coach and develop people is definitely something I want to be doing at this stage of my career and it’s great that I get to specialise like this at my age.’ Elouise is currently completing a postgraduate course in psychology and, according to research, further study is not only a key to improved job realised that it wasn’t just a new job that her research was opening the doors to. After her research into the return on investment for work-based coaching received media coverage, she got an invitation to speak at the prestigious British Psychological Society. ‘Thanks to my course I got in contact with the person arranging the conference. She knew about my research and asked whether I would consider submitting it as a presentation. I also ended up speaking at the conference and now I’ve been approached to have it submitted to an international society.’

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Prospects Postgrad Autumn 2008 Contents: What’s Inside For Love and Money Cash for Qualifications A Tale of Two Students Meet the Postgrad People All Aboard The Postgraduate Environment Maths Market The Postgrad Programme Teacher Training Arts and Humanities Science and Engineering Business and Management Social Sciences

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