Getting your graduate role
We offer a mix of in person and online workshops to give our scholars more skills and confidence when they’re looking for graduate roles.
These include CV building advice sessions with qualified employment and coaching professionals, online webinars on raising your profile with employers through different platforms, public speaking workshops, and tools and techniques for highlighting your strengths and showcasing your abilities.
Building your confidence with experience and tasters
There is no substitute for trying roles out.
Thanks to supporters, we can also offer a range of taster days in offices to smooth a transition into a work environment. We can help find work experience placements in different sectors, and paid internships with organisations specific to your studies. Recent scholars have worked in and for media organisations, with police and crime commissions, with charities and with sports companies. Talk to us about what kind of experience you are looking for to enhance your CV and your personal growth. Email Roxanne.
Have you met?
A single conversation with the right person can open doors.
Our trained, volunteer employment advisers work alongside our mentors to support scholars as they see the right graduate-level role for them. That can include linking people in with specialist training programmes to be job-ready, making connections with firms looking to recruit, suggesting volunteer, placement or internship opportunities, connecting people with organisations that can help with work clothing, a new laptop or specialist equipment for your new job. We also offer support around disclosure of convictions: what you have to disclose to an employer and what you need not.
‘The hardest part is not getting into university or getting the degree. Believe it or not the hardest part is going on, using that degree and living a life. Supporting someone through a degree is great – with mentoring and internships and whatnot. However, the most important part is once that person has a degree helping them to go and use that degree. Others may see it differently, but that’s my opinion.’
A former scholar, now an accountant, who advises us on employability