Careers Advice

Our team of Careers Advisors offer a client-centred service to students studying full-time or part-time courses at the College. Through 1-2-1 drop-in meetings, we offer confidential, impartial and accessible information, advice and guidance to help you decide your next steps. We support careers education and progression advice through group tutorials and students are also able to access advice online through Teams.

Students’ progress onto positive destinations, such as paid employment, apprenticeships or Higher or Further education.

How we help with your progression?

Applying to university: navigating UCAS
Apprenticeship advice
Finding work: including CV writing, job search, applications and interview tips
Student Finance: including Advanced Leaner Loan and Student Loan (soon to become the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).
Volunteering and gap year advice

What else do we offer?

We deliver Higher Education and Career Fairs each academic year here at the College, providing students with the chance to research many different progression opportunities. Masterclasses are also delivered from a range of external companies on topics such as volunteering, Apprenticeships, gap years and part-time jobs.

Partnerships

We have grown our links with both local and large corporate employers over many years, as well as working closely with initiatives such as ‘Inspiring the future’ and ‘Speakers for Schools’. These enable us to offer employer led activities including visits to companies, CV workshops, mentoring and career insight talks.

The College have also been proactive in being part of our local community and working with local community groups to improve access to jobs and training for our students.

Our success

We have been accredited by the Matrix quality standard for information, advice and guidance services.

Contact

careers@ucg.ac.uk

Location

You can find the careers team in the World of Work in the LRC at both Willesden and Paddington Campus.

What is Labour Market Information?

LMI tells you about current and forecast job opportunities in different sectors. For example, it can tell you what average salaries are for particular roles, whether industries are predicted to expand or contract, and about technological or training changes. It is very helpful in planning your career, and therefore in helping you decide what course to choose.

Click here for more info on LMI for All an online data portal, developed by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, which brings together existing national sources of LMI that can inform people’s choices about their careers.

Careers Education

The College is committed to helping students make informed choices about their career goals and aspirations.

We are actively working towards meeting the Benchmarks of good career guidance, developed by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

Careers Programme

We have a range of careers related events, activities and support on offer for our students. Please see below for more info.

A provider wishing to request access should contact the Careers Manager nizam.dinshah@cnwl.ac.uk