Postgraduate careers and employability

From career and skills development, international mobility to student enterprise, we are on hand to help with planning for future success.

Student Futures: your one-stop shop for careers advice

Throughout your degree, access our wide range of services including:

• employability workshops on a range of topics (including picking careers, preparing CVs and applications and preparing for interviews)
• one-to-one career advice   sessions with qualified careers advisers
• Cardiff Award professional development programme
• access to a range of work experience, internship and placement opportunities.
• tailored support for underrepresented groups and those requiring additional support
• careers fairs and employer-led events to enable networking with top graduate employers.
• opportunities to work, study or volunteer abroad
• business mentoring, start-up funds, office space and enterprise opportunities

Careers expertise that counts

At Student Futures we’re ready with all kinds of additional specialist support, including:

• bookable appointments with your School specific careers adviser
• Online resources and tools to support your employability at a time that suits you
• workshops (from choosing careers to application writing and interview preparation)
• professional networking events  (spotlighting teaching, museums, charities)
• professional guest speakers
• work experience placements and advice (from multi-nationals to the heritage sector)

Score high with our Employability Award

Our employability award offers you the chance to gain recognition for activities accumulated during your studies, be that work experience, mentoring, societies, volunteering or part-time work.

Going your own way: entrepreneur, freelancing, social enterprise champion

Whether you’re thinking of freelancing or starting a new venture, we have tailored support, from expert business mentoring to access to desk space and seed funding.

Taste for teaching?

Notch up valuable experience, put your degree subject into context for younger minds and deliver special activities designed by fellow postgraduates in our SHARE with Schools project or the Classroom Experience Project.

After graduation

Support continues at early of career stage, with access to careers advice and latest information – from graduate internships to careers fairs, latest careers and vacancy information – in the key first 3 years following graduation.

As careers evolve, our LinkedIn Alumni group opens up a supportive network (10,000+ alumni members), making it easy to access advice from fellow alumni, including career questions and job opportunities.

• 87% of our postgraduate taught graduates were in employment and/or further study, due to start a new job or course, or doing other activities such as travelling 15 months after the end of their course (Graduate Outcomes 2020/21).

Next steps

Our postgraduates embark on careers in an impressive range of sectors.

Our alumni make their mark in an impressive range of careers and sectors. From the public to the private sector, careers are forged in a range of professions, from banking and law to teaching and working in the media, as well as respected paths in the heritage sector, faith organisations and NGOs.

Every year our graduates take their skills into the world, with many becoming the next generation of archaeologists and conservators here in the UK and across the globe.

Contact us

Student Futures is located in the Centre for Student Life.