As a King's student or recent graduate, you have access to our range of online careers information, resources, interactive courses and digital tools.

Whatever phase of your career journey you are in, you can use our online careers resources to develop your skills, explore opportunities and reach your career goals.

Careers education on KEATS

On our KEATS pages, you'll find self-guided resources including:

• guidance for all stages of your career journey, from discovering where to start, to focusing your ideas and actioning your career plans
• up-to-date sector guides and support for job applications, interview practice and assessment centre preparation
• interactive courses to help you improve your employability skills
• careers and employer event recordings.

Event recordings

Throughout the year, we offer a wide range of careers events, covering various sectors and skills, including workshops, employer panels and skills events. If you're unable to attend a session, or have missed one of our events, you can find recordings of these on our KEATS pages for events.

King's CareerConnect

Career Discovery Feed and industry publications

The Career Discovery Feed on King's CareerConnect is your gateway to hundreds of articles written by employers, experts and our team. These articles cover career-related topics such as finding meaningful work experience, salary negotiation, technical interviews, volunteering and more.

You'll also be able to access digital copies of many of the leading graduate careers publications, including:

• The Times Top 100 Employers
• Inside Careers Guides
• The Guardian 300
• Chambers Student Guide
• GTI Guides.

Sector pathways

Sector pathways are self-paced, tailored streams of content organised by sector. Pathways are available on King's CareerConnect.

Our sector pathways include relevant articles, resources, events and activities that help you develop your commercial awareness and understand the key skills employers are looking for.

They also include bitesize videos, sector-specific events, employer sustainability credentials, assessment processes in each sector and key market intelligence.

Career Inspiration AI tool

Our new AI-driven Career Inspiration tool on King's CareerConnect allows you to answer a few quick questions about your skills, interests, and experience and be prompted on roles and sectors that might match your interests. 

Discover careers you hadn't considered and get real insight into what makes you a great fit.

King's Skills for the Future reflection tool

You'll also be able to undertake your King's Skills for the Future self-assessment tool and set of learning pathways on King's CareerConnect.

It is designed to help you evaluate, develop and expand your existing skill set. It focuses on 30 high-value skills that are particularly important for your employability.

CareerSet

CareerSet is a CV and cover letter checking tool available to all King's students and recent graduates. CareerSet:

• uses advanced AI to give personalised recommendations on how to improve your CV or cover letter
• scores your CV based on its overall impact, style and brevity
• provides suggestions on how to optimise and personalise your cover letter
• allows you to upload job descriptions of roles you are applying for and gives you tips on how to tailor your CV and cover letter to a specific role.

How to use CareerSet

Shortlist.Me

Shortlist.Me is an online tool that offers practice interviews at different levels and in various sectors to help you develop your interview skills. It allows you to:

• tailor your interview preparation to a specific career sector
• build your confidence and learn from any mistakes
• review how your interview went with the use of feedback prompts and guidance on how much of the answer time you used
• familiarise yourself with interviews before receiving further support from a careers advisor.

How to use Shortlist.Me

Graduates First

Graduates First is an online resource that helps students to prepare for job recruitment processes, including access to practice aptitude tests and digital assessments. Graduates First:

• provides practice aptitude tests and digital assessments used by leading employers.
• gives you access to 100,000+ UK job opportunities.
• benchmarks your scores against other candidates so you can track your performance.

How to use Graduates First

eCareersGrad

eCareersGrad is an online platform designed to help international students target the right UK sponsor for employment, while also supporting students with interview preparation and practice for commercial & consulting case scenarios. eCareersGrad:

• provides access to a database of 300+ UK employer profiles, including recent sponsorship history
• highlights ‘International Student-Friendly’ employers to support targeted applications
• features an ‘Interview Success’ section with 40+ candidate-led video examples of successful and unsuccessful interviews
• offers video-based example answers to common case scenarios and practice cases with model answers to help you prepare for success
• presents content in a structured, course-based format to help you build confidence step by step.

How to use eCareersGrad to target the right UK sponsor

Student Circus

Student Circus is a dedicated job portal for international students, offering visa-sponsored opportunities in the UK and roles in over 30 home countries. Student Circus:

• advertises UK Skilled Worker visa roles with trusted, visa-sponsoring employers
• features opportunities in more than 30 countries worldwide
• provides clear guidance on UK immigration routes, work visas and post-study options
• includes detailed country career guides to support applications outside the UK
• offers exclusive events and webinars designed for international students
• gives access to a CV builder tailored to employers in over 20 countries and global job market insights.

How to use Student Circus

Global Placements Hub on KEATS

The Global Placements Hub contains careers education to support your entire placement journey at King's. It includes handbooks, events, interactive content and pathways to help you find the right placement for you.

Our Global Placements Hub is available to students in King's Business School (KBS) and the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES).

Careers in Your Ears podcast

Careers in Your Ears is the careers podcast for PhD students and research staff at King’s. It inspires researchers to successfully navigate decisions about their futures through real-life case studies. .

Listen to Careers in Your Ears on Spotify.