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Careers and Employability
Careers Centre The Careers Centre provides a range of facilities to help students make well-informed and timely decisions about their futures. Career options can be explored on a one-to-one basis with Careers Advisers who are available for consultation throughout the year, including vacations.
From first year onwards, students are encouraged to use the Centre’s resources to guide them through career choices and on to detailed information about the whole range of options and occupations. The information available covers vacation placements, internships and sponsorship opportunities, graduate employers and their vacancies, postgraduate study and funding, professional training, self employment, gap year activities and voluntary work in the UK and overseas. Enterprise activities and support for a possible entrepreneurial career are also offered through the Careers Centre. At all stages, we aim to help students identify and achieve their career goals. The Careers Centre also offers a variety of workshops designed to help students develop the skills they need in order to have the best possible chance of getting into their chosen career.
Facilities are complemented by the Careers IT Room and the Careers Centre web pages, which contains a wealth of information and advice, together with searchable vacancy listings and useful links. See:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers
Finally, the Careers Centre offers a Job Shop to assist students seeking part-time or casual employment during their studies.
Employability and University Initiatives Graduate employers contribute annually to an extensive programme of careers fairs, presentations, seminars and workshops, giving career insights, skills training and practical advice about career planning and job hunting.
To provide students with the opportunity to work with young people, the University has developed a number of programmes in association with local schools including Space School, Science Camp and the First Chances and Summer School programmes.
Robert (MA(Hons) French with Linguistics) Senior Producer Five News
“Getting a job in TV journalism is notoriously difficult, so you need to stand out from the crowd. You won’t be taken seriously if you haven’t got loads of work experience under your belt. Use the Careers Centre as they really are excellent. Don’t ever be afraid to phone or write to people to ask for help and advice. No particular degree subject rules you in or out of a career in journalism. English is an obvious choice of subject, but languages are good too – they’re all about communicating, which is essentially what you do as a journalist.”
Ewan (BSc Marine and Environmental Biology) Fieldwork Assistant/Biologist, British Antarctic Survey
“I decided to follow a lifelong interest, and pursue a career in the exciting area of marine mammal science. I work as a seal fieldwork assistant/biologist on Bird Island, to the western end of South Georgia, about 1,200 miles to the southeast of the South American continent. It is home to 65,000 Antarctic fur seals. The job is action-packed and absolutely captivating. The wildlife on Bird Island is unbelievable and I feel extremely fortunate to be here. I never envisaged myself working long hours in an office, and here I am in the sub-Antarctic, where my ‘office’ is a seal breeding beach.”
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