Careers advice and support

Aston's Award winning Careers & Employability Centre

Our outstanding record for graduate employment is supported by our well-equipped Careers & Employability Centre and its highly experienced team who will support you during your career planning as a student and for up to three years after you graduate. 

We have a dedicated department of around 50 professionals providing careers guidance and placement support aimed at enhancing the capability and employability of all of our students.  We are committed to ensuring that the time spent at Aston prepares our students well for the graduate job market enabling them to demonstrate competitive commercial awareness and to thrive in a global economy. Student satisfaction with the Careers Service was exceptionally high in the latest National Student Survey; it also shows that 89% of Aston students believe they have improved their career prospects as a result of their course.

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Our support includes:

• High quality careers guidance, education and information services delivered through individual appointments, group sessions and online education services
• Individual appointments with our Careers Consultants; professionals with industry experience and up to date knowledge of the careers pathways related to our degrees
• Careers specialists producing and sourcing the most current and relevant careers planning tools and tests to aid students career planning, preparation and exploration
• Emphasis and support for the development of self-awareness, key competencies and transferable skills such as communication, presentation, IT, leadership and team building
• Access to Aston Futures online system advertising graduate employment opportunities, placements and vacation work
• Arranging and publicising events on campus such as employer presentations, drop-ins and recruitment fairs so that our students can meet employers face-to-face
• Continuously forging new relationships and working closely with graduate recruiters and other opportunity providers in the UK and globally to ensure their high profile presence on campus and ability to input into the planning of our services and facilities
• Commitment to providing the latest technology and access to clear information channels enabling easy communication and interaction with relevant services and support

We can equip you for Success in the Global Market Place

At Aston, we recognise that graduates are a key part of a more dynamic and mobile global marketplace. Our students have the chance to gain the skills and confidence to be successful global citizens, and we can offer access to exciting work and study opportunities through our extensive network of world-wide partnerships with employers and Universities.

We encourage enterprise and entrepreneurship

There is a good reason why Aston is in the top ten Universities for producing millionaires – we educated 2.3% of UK millionaires based on recent research carried out by CoreData Research UK on behalf of Skandia; we encourage our students to develop an enterprising mind-set and support those who want to build their own business. We run innovation competitions offering financial incentives, we offer specialist advice and mentoring schemes and work with partners to fund start-ups and provide incubator space to encourage and enable enterprise and entrepreneurship