Careers Centre
The Careers Centre helps our students while they are studying with us and for three years after they have graduated. We work with students whatever stage they are at in their career planning – whether they want to talk over specific career ideas or they are not sure where to start!
We provide free advice and guidance on all aspects of career planning, to help ensure a smooth transition from undergraduate study into further study or the world of work. We work closely with Student Helpzones and with academic departments where our staff provide an input in to lecture programmes.
As one of our students or recent graduates, you will be able to book individual appointments for one-to-one advice and get help with CVs, job applications and interview technique. You can use the Careers Centre Information Room and our range of web- based careers resources to research graduate careers, further study and employment.
Our team of careers consultants encourage students to come and make use of the Careers Centre at any stage of their studies and appointments are available daily (Mon - Fri) at the Careers Centre and on a regular basis at all campuses. We also offer a very popular online guidance service where students can email a careers adviser.
Destinations of Leavers from the University of Gloucestershire
If you would like to know more about what students from the University of Gloucestershire go on to do after their university course, there are several sources of information available.
The government asks all universities to collect data about what their students are doing six months after graduation – in a national survey called ‘Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education’ (DLHE). This data can be viewed at http://unistats.direct.gov.uk , a government site which enables you to compare employability data from different universities.
The Prospects website publishes ‘What Do Graduates Do’ which provides a national picture of graduate destinations from specific subject areas at http://www.prospects.ac.uk/what_do_graduates_do.htm.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency also make destination data available to prospective students at http://www.hesa.ac.uk. If you would like more specific information about destinations from University of Gloucestershire academic programmes, please e-mail us at careers@glos.ac.uk.
Work Placements
Many of our courses require you to undertake a supervised work placement, which can be paid or unpaid. This allows you to put the skills you learn in your course into practice and prepares you for life in the workplace after you graduate.
You may find yourself working with high-profile companies such as IBM, British Airways, Motorola and Disney. Our Placements Office will help you find the best business or organisations for your work placement. A large number of our placement providers subsequently offer these students graduate positions.
More about the Placements Office
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
The university has an excellent record in completing successful Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). These are two year projects that allow graduates to work in industry on projects of strategic value to a company. KTPs are funded by the UK government and industry partners. Typical projects are development of new products or marketing strategy or the introduction of new information systems.
The university has completed over 25 of these projects in the past three years, and received above average gradings from the UK government on project outcomes.
Jobshop
While studying with us, you may want to take on a part time job. The Students’ Unions has its own 'Jobshop' to help you find part-time or temporary work, as well as employing over 60 regular student staff members to help run our services.
Lifepilot
Lifepilot is a website providing one-stop, information, tools and stories, to help adults take the first step to higher education level study, in the South West – even without formal qualifications.
Some of the useful features of the site include:
- Information about a range of issues e.g. ‘Money matters’, ‘What are the benefits?’, ‘What, when are where?’, etc
- A ‘Get Started’ tool which will match what users want to know to the information that best meets their needs
- Access to 40+ videos showing how other adults in the South West region have taken the first step to higher education
- Access to online impartial advice and guidance
- A link to all colleges and universities in the South West region
- A ‘Your Profile’ tool which will enable users to build and save their own Profile and use this to help decision-making and applications – including for CVs.
If you would like more information about Lifepilot please contact lifepilot@bath.ac.uk