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Education and careers

A range of information for your learning and work needs.

Would you like to:

• Choose a school, college or university?
• Decide which subjects to study?
• Improve your skills?
• Gain qualifications?
• Investigate benefits, grants and sponsorship?
• Develop new hobbies or interests?
• Find or change a job?
• Return to work after a break?
• Write a CV?
• Improve interview skills?
• Live or work abroad?

Use our wide range of resources to help you make a decision.

These include:

• Hints - a reliable, complete careers information system for all age groups
• Prospectuses for all British Universities as well as local schools and colleges
• Ofsted reports and performance tables
• Directories to help you find the necessary funding
• Magazines and newspapers for job vacancy adverts
• Guides for applying for jobs, writing CVs, and preparing for interviews
• Maps and travel timetables to help you get to your interview
• Company information to help you with your pre-interview research
• Books about living and working abroad
• Access to the Internet and e-mail

You can also connect to LINK2LEARN, a website which provides information on training courses and qualifications, as well as contacts for careers guidance, obtaining employment, grants and business development

We accept enquiries in person at your local branch or by:

• Telephone: 023 9268 8045
• Fax: 023 9283 9855
• Email to reference.library@portsmouthcc.gov.uk