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Careers & Employability

Our teams are dedicated to supporting students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, research staff and recent graduates as they navigate their career journeys, offering expert guidance, resources and opportunities to enhance their employability.

Academic and Professional Services colleagues are key to integrating career development into academic programmes and services, ensuring students are well-equipped for the world of work. Together, we can help empower the next generation of professionals.

How to share our support with students and researchers

King's Careers & Employability is here to support students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, research staff and recent graduates on their career journeys. Our services include:

Careers Essentials checklists to support students and research staff

While all of our services are available to all students and research staff at any time, we recommend prioritising specific activities based on your stage of career thinking (Discover, Focus or Action).

These activities are outlined in our Careers Essentials checklists, which have been created to support undergraduates (in their first, middle and final year), postgraduate taught students, doctoral researchers and research staff in making the most of their career journey.

Staff access to King's CareerConnect

Many of our services for students and researchers, including appointments, events and job adverts, are located on King's CareerConnect.

Staff can register to access the platform to view what's available and demonstrate to students how the platform works. After the initial account registration, staff access is single sign-on, to ease future use.

King's Staff Employability toolkit, careers data and advisory boards

The Employability Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to integrating employability at King’s. It covers how we work with you and support in areas such as:

  • integrating employability in and alongside the curriculum
  • work-related learning
  • the role of personal tutors
  • using and accessing careers data (including Graduate Outcomes and student career readiness)
  • presenting employability in quality reviews
  • constructing industry boards - and information on the King's Employer Advisory Board
  • highlighting employability in your programmes.

You can also download our guide to the core employer events and activities (pdf) running this academic year.

Understanding the graduate labour market and industry trends

Our Employer Engagement function are expert at understanding what's going on across the graduate labour market to inform, develop and support our students - and staff in being equipped with the latest intelligence.

A dedicated section of the King's Employability Toolkit is available to support staff in their own learning about the UK market and key industry sectors and recordings of sessions developed for students annually are available for staff review also.

This also covers areas such as the growth of artificial intelligence and its impact - and we've published a statement on the ethical use of AI in applications and job searching (pdf) to assist our audiences.

We also run an annual training session via SkillsForge (filter to "Careers & Employability"), specifically for staff looking to learn about the graduate labour market in the UK and other key international markets.

Access digital tools through King's Careers & Employability

Many of the digital tools we have procured for students are accessible by staff also, to support their own career journey.

Explore some of the systems on our website.

Support from King's Organisational Development

Organisational Development plays a vital role in empowering, developing and supporting our community of over 10,000 staff to thrive.

Review the staff intranet pages for information on their offering, including:

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