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Occupational information
A series of profiles of individual occupations have been created for this new resource to specifically focus on information for doctoral graduates but are based on the occupational profiles created by the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) for prospects.ac.uk. These profiles examine many of the most common jobs for early career doctoral graduates.
Each profile contains a brief explanation of what the role entails, the kinds of duties someone taking up each job might expect, entry requirements, typical salaries and useful links. In addition, there is also data on the number of doctoral graduates entering each occupation in recent years, their subject backgrounds and the industries that they entered when they took on their roles.
Some of the commonest groups of jobs do not have a specific occupational profile. There is no generic ‘researcher' profile, as this is an extremely diverse role for doctoral graduates, and many occupations contain elements of research. Similarly, another common job, that of ‘project manager', has no specific profile as many doctoral graduates will manage projects as part of their day to day duties. Instead, there are more specialised profiles for specific areas of research.
Vitae's 'What do researchers do? Doctoral graduate destinations and impacts three years on' describes how labour market outcomes for doctoral graduates have been categorised into six occupational clusters. The sixty occupational profiles illustrated in this resource are presented within these occupational clusters.
