Careers Network
Your experienced Careers Network team works closely with academic schools and professional services to ensure that every student has access to outstanding careers advice, coaching, employability support and development opportunities.
Our services and opportunities include:
- One-to-one careers advice and guidance sessions.
- Presentations and workshops on career planning, networking, and job search.
- Self-help resources and individual advice on CVs and applications.
- Practice interviews and mock assessment centres.
- Online tools for career choice and job hunting.
- Help securing placements, internships, and part-time work.
- Access to placements and graduate opportunities.
- Skills masterclasses with leading employers.
- Dedicated enterprise experts to support students with new business ideas.
- Delivery of the Personal Best skills development programme.
- Skills for Academic Success to support you in your studies.
1:1 coaching provide opportunities to support students in an objective and non-judgemental way, explore their goals and enable them to reach their full potential. This includes:
- Careers Coaching: to explore career options and graduate opportunities.
- Academic Success Coaching: to facilitate goal setting and overcome challenges to enhance academic performance.
- Interview Coaching: to practise and improve interview technique, provide feedback, and build confidence.
- Business and Enterprise Coaching: to explore ideas, develop entrepreneurial skills and support launching a business or freelance career.
Meaningful work experience
All our undergraduate courses offer the option to experience a year in industry. Every year record numbers of employers, in the UK and abroad, recruit Loughborough students for placements, internships and graduate roles, attracted to their wide-ranging skills and determination to succeed.
Future Talent is designed to supercharge Black and Asian students’ career prospects and confidence through access to meaningful work experience (Placements and Internships) and employers with a genuine interest in recruiting diverse talent into their workforce.
Graduate careers and placement events
We hold one of the largest university careers fairs in the UK and sector-specific events, involving employers and Loughborough alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality roles.
Student Success Academy
Student Success Academy offers a wide range of personalised opportunities and tailored programmes designed to help you unlock your full potential during your time at university, with a particular focus on supporting students traditionally underrepresented in Higher Education.
Personal Best
Personal Best provides students with the opportunity to develop, recognise and better articulate their own skills and attributes, leading to greater self-awareness and success both academically and in their future careers.
Loughborough Enterprise Network
Loughborough Enterprise Network provides a range of support, funding and activities to help you develop your entrepreneurial skills and ideas, and kickstart a business or go self-employed. We help you transition into the world of entrepreneurship and innovation at whichever stage feels right for you.