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Okay. Let's make a start. Hello to those of you.

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Have we met before? I'm Lucy. I'm one of the careers advisers and I'm your link with the history department.

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And you might see me as at talks like job hunting and arts and heritage or Arts Media Marketing Fair.

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Back in November.

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And I'm the person that you can book individual appointments with if you'd like to to talk about this kind of thing in more individual detail,

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if you would like to. I have a quick overview of what's going on today.

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So I'm going to start out with a little bit of a scene setting exercise, thinking about the bigger picture and what do our history of our students do.

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So when you leave us spring, you sadly leave us and you will get hounded to complete a survey saying, what did you go on to do?

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And the results of that survey. And I can share with you. What are some other tips for thinking about your.

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What next questions after Oxford. You've got four fantastic speakers today.

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Avi's ask them to talk about what they do, how they got to be able to do it.

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Tips for those of you who are thinking of doing something similar and what they wish they'd known when they were sitting where you are now.

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And they've each got around 15 to 20 minutes to talk. We'll have questions after each speaker.

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And there's a whole panel right at the end as well. So do jot downs questions as we go along.

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We'll have a break in the middle and around here to have some tea and coffee and maybe even biscuits if we're very good.

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I think you got Becka's. And so what what do what do you do?

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What do history of art students do? Well, reassuringly, you beat nearly any every other humanities department.

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So I think we should feel slightly proud. Little bit of arrival maybe with some of the others.

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Only three percent of us are still looking. Six months after finishing our course.

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So this stage was taken from the B. A's, but it's roughly comparable with the massive history of art.

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And so there's a few people combining work and study. But the vast majority do go into it and work initially.

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And this is what they do, which I don't know if people find that surprising. Did you expect that this segment would be bigger?

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Did you expect that maybe there's people from history of art that opposed the career in investment banking, an incredibly numerate discipline?

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You could argue I find that slightly reassuring in lots of ways, that in the UK in particular,

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our degrees don't really define who we are as people in the same ways that sometimes your major can do it.

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A U.S. university is a little bit more flexibility in market and actually history of artists going to do a huge range of different things.

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And part of your challenge, I guess, why you're here at Oxford is to figure out a bit about what makes you tick,

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what might make it add up to one of these things rather than something else.

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And it's not just the world that you work in. It's also the work that you do.

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So just like you did become the finance manager at the Tate, you could also do something entirely different.

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And so we break it down by sectors and also by roles of being in a frustratingly large category for lots of people doing communications type jobs,

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teachers, trainers, customer services, people front of house.

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There's lots people operational project roles, which could be anything from running and the layout of her exhibition,

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or saw a job up yesterday on our service for someone who's an eight eight day job to design the layout of an exhibition.

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Interesting. As well as I.T. and finance and law and all kinds of different areas as well.

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The average starting salary was seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty pounds to people thinking behind me is a few people optimistic.

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You thought it would be high.

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And realistically, I think given the sectors that we work in, if we go back, this large chunk isn't renowned for having the highest starting salaries.

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So there might well be something to think about if that's a really important factor for you,

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how it weighs into your career decisions that she can see,

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the breadth of people, of employers, that people go on to work for everyone from national government.

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And that's not just the UK national government. It's not even just working in culture related departments within national government.

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It's people who forged a career in foreign affairs and diplomacy.

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And if someone who was working in the Department of Work and Pensions, all kinds of different areas,

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people like an AP story arc who founded her own social enterprise to break the broken,

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spoke like co-op, getting a Tier one graduate visa as an American student to stay in that which is all the way one street away in Pembrook Street.

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And so really, really broad. LinkedIn is a fantastic resource.

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And if anyone is thinking this is quite interesting just for ideas,

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you can go into LinkedIn and on that top search bar, in that drop down menu as an option for universities.

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And you get to this page and you can click on the word explore careers of 100000 alumni.

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And then you can see. Fields have fields that are underneath that.

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You've got two screens worth of those and you can filter for people that have done history over.

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Although I think linked in with the art history in obstinate fashion.

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And you can see what just art history from the University of Oxford goes on to do.

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And given the fact that it's so broad, that might prove food for thought maybe as well as indeed he works in the sectors that you're interested in,

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from across the range of Oxford graduates and on the Chris Service website,

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that can reconnect a bit some of you might be familiar with to look on has a alumni database.

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So there's two thousand alumni who would like to be helpful.

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Occasionally they bring us up and say no one is no one has emailed us is what I do not call.

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I had done just this week. It's sticking in my mind.

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The writer director of White Oleander for ITV, Peter Kosminski, is half fantastic writing, producing career.

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And he sent me an email to say I never get asked is what I do not cool.

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So I ask people who make them feel warm and fluffy. And if that can be one way of deciding what to do next.

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So this is not a particularly sexy diagram, in my opinion.

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It's not that kind of exciting idea that you'll walk down the middle of Queen Street and suddenly a beam of light will shine upon you.

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Excellent. I know. Must go into curatorial work is suddenly I have a dawning realisation for most people

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is a little bit of a shuttling between figuring out a bit about what makes us tick.

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And that can be through first hand experience from events like this today and reading a little bit about those industries.

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So I have to guide to arts and heritage here. If anyone's not got a copy.

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Feel free to take one. They are genuinely better read online because I think I added up the links and there's

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over 150 different Web links in there to maybe the online version might be more suitable.

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But there's that.

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There's the Careers Creative Arts Briefing, which are about 45, about the different sectors to manage to download that for further thought.

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And if you're finding it hard to review, filter and decide deciding what next. That might be a time to book an appointment.

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So we do daily group discussions twice a day in our circle of chairs.

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Sometimes there are biscuits. If we've been very good, sometimes our biscuits.

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And anyone can ask the question or give an answer. So it's a democratic discussion around a given topic.

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We call those career lounges used to individual appointments, including Skype and the vacation.

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And you have us for life, which is a reassuring. So use this that if you need to.

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And I might suggest if someone's coming at this completely, not quite sure what makes fashion is a kind of example plan of action.

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It's not what you have to do, but you might start out by reading online.

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You might want to attend talks like this.

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And there's lots more that go on in their time at Oxford as well, and maybe start thinking about getting some first hand experience.

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I think staying right here a little bit about people's experience of getting that first hand experience and when you're ready to apply,

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it always particularly is your first application. Come and talk to us.

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We can have double cheque your applications and make sure that you're feeling happy with it.

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And one thing you could do if this is all filling baffling is I used to teach year seven and eight with year seven.

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We teach them smart targets, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time sensitive targets.

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Which means you're not going to say by the end of this term you're going to have the

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best ever internship lined up for the summer because that's not specific or measurable.

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But you might say by the end of next week,

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I want to have decided five websites that might be useful to help me find that data by the end of next month.

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When I've contacted three alumni through LinkedIn or through our system of just through

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the power of networking speculatively and who might prove helpful in helping me find.

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To give us a nice, easy targets, because this was already a bit of a maelstrom, I thought,

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and if you can give us a nice things to tick off, your list will make this whole process lovely.

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And so some conclusions. You're not pigeonholed. I think they're for good reasons to be positive.

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I really, really do. The media saying 85 percent of graduates are struggling to eat bread because they're so destitute.

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It's not the case. It genuinely isn't the case. Three percent of our students are unemployed.

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And the first, it doesn't define them. So it doesn't mean that you go into next has to be what you stay in for the rest of your life.

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Lots of people meander around. And unlike in things like law, for example, there isn't a path really.

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There isn't necessarily a you do this and then you do that kind of field and lots of jobs that relate exactly to your degree.

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So you have to kind of be okay with the fact that you make your own path that they might me, Andrew.