Employability

Your Career

Your career and life after University are important to think about now - research and preparation before you graduate will help you to find a job that you love. The University offers a lot of resources to help you with your employability, and this page should help you to understand what's available.

This semester we're working on creating an employability strategy that highlights how we can best support, educate and advocate for students regarding employability, and electing a new employability officer to the SRC. We've also formalised the School Presidents Advisory Group (Careers), which which feeds directly into the Careers Centre to provide student input.

What the Uni offers

Student Run Events

Careers Week Resources

Further Links

What the University Offers

There are two University Units to help you with your employability, and they both are there to help you in different ways.

The Careers Centre exists to help students make decisions about what they will do after graduation. The Careers Centre offers services to all full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students; graduates within three years of graduation and graduate-level staff members of the university. They can offer advice on any employability matters.

You can book an appointment with a Careers Adviser throughout the Semester to for a number of services including careers advice, CV help, and practise interviews. There's a wealth of resources to help you excel in the application process available on online. Throughout the year there are many events, workshops and fairs available. Finally, you can find vacancies and job opportunities through CareerConnect

Look Local

The Careers Centre runs Look Local, a service for finding part-time work and volunteering opportunities in the St Andrews and surrounding areas that will fit alongside your studies.

CareerConnect

CareerConnect is the Careers Centre's portal that matriculated students can access using their University account. It is used to access all Careers Centre services such as apointments, events, and vacancies.

The Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development (CEED) provides learning and teaching support to staff and students, combining educational development, workshops, technology-enhanced learning and IT skills, and academic support.

CEED offers personal coaching to develop leadership skills, one-to-one appointments to help you build your study skills, and mentoring schemes for new students. They also run the Summer Team Enterprise Programme (STEP), as well as workshops for the Professional Skills Curriculum (PSC).

Link to Careers

The Students' Association is working in partnership with the Careers Centre to provide the support and events that you want. Throughout the year School Presidents and societies run careers-based events for students. The Link to Careers partnership encourages collaboration with between these student groups and the Careers Centre to provide the highest quality events. Check back soon for more information on events that will be running throughout the Semester.

Looking to run an event? Get in contact with the Opportunities Team (Careers) at employers@st-andrews.ac.uk!

Upcoming Events

Calendar coming soon

Careers Week

We've worked with the Careers Centre to gather videos and tasks for you to do using the resources available for all University students.

Check out the videos below to work on your CV, interview skills, and LinkedIn page.

Click the image to watch the video and then complete the tasks below:

CV Tasks

Check out our Careers Centre CV examples and guidance.
Get familiar with Action Words and the CAR approach to CV writing.
Put together a Master CV.
Book an appointment with a Careers adviser (or during the semester a CV adviser) to receive feedback on your CV.

Click the image to watch the video and then complete the tasks below:

Interview Tasks

Research the Career Centre Interview web page.
Prepare an inventory of scenario examples using the STAR technique.
Make use of the Interview Simulator to practise and record back your performance.
Use the Graduate First platform to practise video interviews.
Book a 45 minute Practice Interview appointment on Career Connect with a Careers Adviser.

Click the image to watch the video and then complete the tasks below:

LinkedIn Tasks

Check out our Careers Centre online advice on LinkedIn.
Set up your LinkedIn profile.
Start to build your network using the St Andrews LinkedIn Alumni Tool.
Research alumni profiles of interest to you and check out their career journeys.
Book an appointment with a Careers adviser (or during the semester a CV adviser) to receive LinkedIn advice and feedback.

Further links

Graduate attributes relate to the knowledge, skills and capabilities that the University seeks to give allstudents the opportunity to develop throughout their time at St Andrews.

The Professional Skills Curriculum (PSC) is the University's way of equipping you with essential skills to boost your employability through a programme of workshops.

A Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) is an ongoing research project led by an academic supervisor and made up of a team of students from any level of study. The scheme demonstates a number of positive values to employers.

The University provides a number of resources and events to help you engage your entrepreneurial mindset.

The University offers prestigious internships to all penultimate year undergraduate students through the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme.

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