Career advice and guidance

We offer impartial career advice and guidance services via drop-ins, booked appointments, telephone and email.

Our highly experienced and qualified team will provide comprehensive and up-to-date career information. The service has a dedicated suite for 1:1 meetings and group enrichment/projects that will look fantastic on any supporting statement to university, an apprenticeship or employment.

We have qualified advisors on hand to give you impartial advice and information about the pathways to your future career. This includes help with doing further study or training with us or another provider, finding the right part-time or full-time job and preparing for interviews, or choosing and applying for a place at university.

Every year we run high-quality enrichment programmes such as the Lloyds Junior Scholars with Lloyds Banking Group, Legal Action including Herbert Smith Freehills and UCL Ambassadors, and Get Ahead in TV with Curve Media. We also run projects such as the Games Design Challenge bringing together a panel of game design experts.

We have a yearly plan of careers and employability activities so that you can get the most from your time with us. The services and activities are planned to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks of good career guidance and we also take your feedback on services to continuously improve our service to you. Our advisers will be here with you through every step of your journey with us, from application to results day.

We can help you if you are:

• Unsure or confused about your career or course choices
• At the risk of leaving your course early
• Worried that you will not succeed in your course
• Unsure whether you are on the right course
• Confused about your future choices and opportunities

Whether you’re applying for university, an apprenticeship or other employment, we can help you build the perfect CV, application and personal statement to help your ’employment pack’ stand out from the crowd.

What we offer

Impartial careers advice

We offer individual advice about your specific career options and next steps.

Career information

We can talk to you about university, apprenticeships, other training routes and how to apply (including UCAS, CUKAS, GTTR and PA), as well as give you access to online databases such as Kudos, Adult Directions and Exodus.

Career programmes

We have an established careers programme with a specialist team of staff and many resources to help and support students in making decisions about their next steps. Weekly tutorial programmes and events are planned throughout the year to show students the full range of options open to them after completing their study programme. Click here to see our career programmes.

Employability skills

We help you learn transferrable and industry-specific skills for the workplace, as well as how to create job applications that will make you stand out.

Opportunities to network

We run workshops, events, and one-to-one meetings, through your course or by connecting with you directly.

Work experience

We also support many work experience placements, from finding you a placement and preparing you before you go to supporting you on the placement and helping you identify the skills you’re gaining along the way.

Higher Education fairs

Each year we run campus and cross-college Higher Education fairs with over 40 universities in attendance, as well as other national events throughout the year such as Science Week, Apprenticeship Week, Careers Week, ongoing talks with Creative Mentor Network for our creative students, all supported by employers, universities, and other organisations. Much of our events throughout the year support is also recorded on our Careers YouTube channel so that you can get a taste of the vast offer we have for our student population no matter what course they are on.

We advise teaching staff on developing career education and planning activities in their courses to help enhance employability and confidence with career planning. We also actively source and advertise mentoring schemes to support disadvantaged students seeking progression into employment, training or education. We are also part of the National Career Ready programme where students are mentored by leading business figures. Our students have had some outstanding summer internships at prestigious companies such as Citi Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Marsh LTD.

We provide many Mentoring opportunities to stretch and support such as Zero Gravity, Realizing Opportunities, Brightside, Social Mobility Foundation and the Local Village Network. We will be able to match up any learner with an opportunity, all they need to do is visit careers for more details.

Universities we work with

Contact us

If you require some career advice and guidance, simply phone, email or attend a drop-in session using the details below.