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Industrial Experience
at CUED

Current Undergraduates

Databases

You will find all the different types of database listed alpahabetically below. At the top of the list is our own CUED database CHOICE which is a collection of companies that have some contact or connection in terms of co-operating with CUED in the past in respect of Industrial Experience.

• C U E D Employers Database "CHOICE"
  We have over 2000 organisations. Start here first to activate your campaign, then build up the numbers using the other databases to augment the range of your contacts.

• Our colleagues in Cambridge University Careers Service have a Vacation Work database, just log on and you can look at current vacancies and they will also forward future jobs that match your search criteria.

• There are a couple of web sites that carry a lot of Graduate full time jobs plus some summer vacation work. Prospects which is the AGCAS ( national Careers Service organistion) Official site. and also Target Jobs .

• Another way to find jobs is to contact companies that are actively looking for full time workers, which means that they probably expanding and need more staff to cope. The Cambridge Region is accessible to all students as you can normally stay in College for the summer, but there will be similar types of databases which serve your home region. Local Newspapers can be another good source

• For certain types of job the Yellow Pages

are as good a place to find companies especially in the construction sector.

• Below is a list of Industry Sector databases which group together organisations operaing in the same industry

1. Aerospace
2. Automotive Industry
   
3. Civil & Structural
4. Electrical/Electronic Engineering
5. Environmental
6. Marine and Naval Industry.
   
7. Multi-sector and Search by Name Databases
8. Railway Industry
   

9. Stage, Performing Arts & Sport Engineering.

For the Stage struck and sports obsessives.

10. Technology & Product Design Consultancies

Once yyour list of comapnies starts to build up, it's essential that you keep track by using a grid to make a note of who you have been in touch with, when, what the result was and what the next step might be. Download The GRID