- Book a 1-2-1 careers meeting (either in-person at a Careers Zone or online via Teams) with a Careers and Employability Adviser to evaluate your options, identify careers that suit your strengths, skills and values, find relevant opportunities, and develop an action plan to help you achieve your career ambitions. You can also get CVs, application forms and personal statements reviewed by our expert advisers and get help with the interview process.
- Get support from the Start-up Hub team to explore a business idea, start or grow a business or become a freelancer. Whatever you need from the Hub, a meeting with our friendly Business Adviser is the place to start. They will ask about your ideas and aims, and suggest a plan to move forward. Book a 30-minute meeting, which will take place either in person at the Student Life Building or online via Teams. If the times listed don’t work for you, please provide us with your details to arrange a phone or video call at another time. The Start-up Hub has also launched the new Bathgate Boost Award which gives final year students and 2023 LJMU graduates the chance to access a £500 award designed to support students to launch or grow their fledgling business.
- As well as accessing part-time, temporary or flexible jobs during your final semester, you can also work for Unitemps at LJMU for up to two years after graduating. Unitemps offers graduate opportunities as well as short-term options that could bridge the gap over the summer before you start a graduate-level role, or to earn some spending cash for travelling or a gap year. Call into Unitemps at the Student Life Building to speak to one of the team about the options available to you.
Graduate Advice: "I went to the Start-up Hub to get some support and advice to help launch my coaching business.
The team are really approachable and practical and helped me work through all the things I needed to do. The pitch preparation and access to funding really helped me. They have really helpful training sessions and webinars and a great network to refer you to. I recommend you pay them a visit!"
Jack Jenkins, MSc Sports Psychology, 2023 Graduate
We are currently in the planning stages for a number of large-scale events that will be taking place during the upcoming 2024/25 academic year where final year students can meet and network with a range of employers and organisations to discuss graduate roles and opportunities. Here's a taster of what is to come:
- Part-time Jobs Fair - Tuesday 24 September 2024, 12-2pm, Student Life Building
- Graduate and Placement Jobs Fair (for Faculty of Engineering and Technology students) - Thursday 10 October 2024. For more information email the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Placement Unit
- Graduate Jobs Fair - Wednesday 23 October, 11am-2pm, Student Life Building
- Law and Criminal Justice Fair Employer Fair - 20 November 2024, 12-2pm
- Volunteering Fair - 12 February 2025 (time TBC). This event is managed by John Moores Students Union.
- Grad Academy - May 2025 and July 2025 - details will be available in 2025 on the Grad Academy webpage.
As well as these large-scale events, there will also be regular employer events and our usual programme of careers, employability and start-up sessions, as well our twice weekly CV Café and weekly Careers drop-ins for quick careers enquiries. You can also attend our twice weekly virtual reality drop-ins where you can practice interview and employability skills.
View current Student Futures events
Graduate Advice:
"My advice going into your final semester is to stay calm, breathe and remember there are so many amazing services at LJMU to support you as you embark on the transition from student to new graduate. Student Futures can offer advice and knowledge and help you to choose the career path that best suits you. You don’t have to have it all worked out straight away, explore different opportunities and most importantly chase your dreams".
Sam Scragg, International Relations and Politics, 2023 Graduate
- Final year students can apply for a paid Discovery Internship during your final semester. Internships will be advertised in February/March 2024 for a start in May after final assessments. You must be registered with Unitemps at LJMU to apply so sign up to receive notifications about the opportunities.
- LJMU students or new graduates have exclusive access to opportunities for flexible, part-time, paid work through Unitemps at LJMU - our very own on-campus recruitment agency. As well as boosting your finances, assignments strengthen LJMU graduates’ CVs, their employability skills and their organisational awareness.
- Search for graduate-level roles on our jobs board in Careers Zone 24/7 and access opportunities from local, national and international employers. The jobs board pulls in opportunities from across the internet, plus our employer partners post opportunities specifically for LJMU students and graduates.
- Check out the most popular websites that post graduate-level jobs, graduate schemes and (in some cases) information about postgraduate study, including Prospects, Target Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs, Milkround, Guardian Graduate Jobs, Reed Graduate Board, GraduateJobs.com.
- Over 47% of employed LJMU graduates go on to work in the Liverpool City Region so if you are considering working locally, check out the jobs board and other resources on the Liverpool City Region Be More website.
- The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is another handy resource, as it the 'What can I do with my degree' on Prospects.
Graduate Advice:
"In my view, the best way to align yourself with the values of an employer is to evidence how you share those values or why those values are important to you. It is easy to say an employer’s values are important to you, I think it is evidencing why they are important to you that makes you stand out. When applying to the CPS, I used both work experience and personal experiences to evidence that."
Emily Thorbjornsen, LLB Law, 2021 Graduate
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