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Employability and Student Success

Enabling all students to fulfil their potential, graduating with the skills, experience and confidence to achieve career success and lifelong employability.

Use My Employability Profile to develop your employability skills.

Putting employability at the heart of the student experience

Our Employability Strategy embeds employability and skill development into the student lifecycle. It facilitates access to professional learning for all students and provides a wide portfolio of opportunities for everyone studying at the university.

Our employability experts

We have teams of Employability experts, based centrally within Professional Services and embedded within the Faculties/School, to ensure all students have access to a wide range of employability support and expertise.

Skills Centre

Group of students participating in an academic skills tutorial.

Drop-ins, courses, online resources and 1:1 tutorials to help you succeed in your studies and beyond.

Careers

We offer information, advice and guidance to students and graduates. We also work with employers to connect them with our students and recent graduates.

Innovation: For students

A group photo of the networking lunch at Enterprise Day 2023

Enterprise 蘑菇传媒 can help you achieve your entrepreneurial ambitions and support you on your enterprising journey whilst at university.

The 蘑菇传媒 Award

Registrations for the 蘑菇传媒 Award 2026-27 are now open, enabling you to identify the skills you have acquired during your time at 蘑菇传媒, and empowering you to take action and develop skills that support your success.

My Employability Profile

Accessible by all students, including undergraduates, postgraduate taught students, remote learners and students on placement, this online dashboard will sit alongside MyFuture (our Careers platform) and My Academic Success (our skills platform) and support you to access the information, resources, and events you need to build a comprehensive employability profile that employers will recognise and value.

It will help you articulate and demonstrate the skills you have developed in 13 key employability capabilities, identifying gaps you may have and suggesting resources to fill those gaps.

You can add to your dashboard at any time, and progress at your own pace. There is no deadline or limit on what you can submit to build your profile.

Find out more about My Employability Profile

Mapping your employability journey

Career planning can feel overwhelming and it helps to break it down into small manageable steps. There are plenty of opportunities here at 蘑菇传媒 for you to enhance your skills, gain experience and build your confidence but you may be unsure where to start or what to do. The employability map can help.

Find out more about our Employability Maps

蘑菇传媒 Insights internships

Finding work experience can be a real challenge for students in years one and two as organisations often ask for prior experience and skills they may not have had a chance to develop. 蘑菇传媒 Insights gives students in their first or second year the opportunity to gain work experience in a safe, supportive environment through working as an intern in one of a variety of departments on the university campus.

Find out more about the 蘑菇传媒 Insights Internship Programme

The Pop-Up Shop Programme

The goal of the Pop-Up Shop programme is to give all students the chance to run a shop in the city centre for a day. It doesn鈥檛 matter what course you鈥檙e studying, or what stage of study you鈥檙e at, the programme is open to everyone and is a fun way to get new experiences and make new friends.

Find out more about the Pop-Up Shop Programme
Team Lemme, the Pop-Up Shop Programme winners in 2025.

More Employability initiatives

Employability is woven into so much of what we do, here are some more ways you can build your employability and ensure your success while you're a student 蘑菇传媒.

Student success stories

Celebrating the achievements, journeys, and insights of 蘑菇传媒 students. Discover real stories, learn from peers, and share your own experiences to grow your network.

For The SU, the single most important thing an intern could bring was the student perspective itself.

When I arrived at 蘑菇传媒 for my MSc, I hoped to earn a great degree and gain a few skills. Those skills became one of the most valuable parts of my time here.

This summer, we hosted Natalie, a Physics student, as a 蘑菇传媒 Insights Intern within the Careers Service.

MSc student Rajveena shares how the 蘑菇传媒 Award helped her build confidence, develop key skills, grow her network and secure an unexpected role.

From Team 蘑菇传媒 Zero and a Nissan placement to Engineer Your Fit, Sudar shares how varied experiences build skills, confidence and career direction.

We met up with Parakram Bakiwala, an international MSc Finance student, to learn more about his experience of completing the 蘑菇传媒 Award.

Upcoming events

Browse events where you can meet the team and find out more about our work.

10 Nov 2026 5.15pm Online

Explore what makes an email effective, how to write appropriately for different audiences, and how to manage your inbox so it works for you, not against you.

17 Nov 2026 5.15pm Online

Understand how meetings work, how to contribute confidently, and how to handle common challenges so you can make your voice heard and your time count.

24 Nov 2026 6.30pm Online

Hear from a mixture of employers and 蘑菇传媒 alumni sharing their experiences of how language skills enhanced their careers and opened doors to new opportunities.

30 Nov 2026 5.15pm Online

In this session, you鈥檒l uncover the secrets behind high-context and low-context communication styles and learn how they shape the way we share ideas.

Employablity articles

News and articles from across the university and beyond to help you build your employability.

In order to help get you more comfortable with using Excel, we鈥檝e created the Excel Puzzle Blog series.

Learning to adapt to this uncertainty is an important part of becoming professionally effective.

Developing your digital skills is part of getting settled into university and becoming more confident in managing your studies.

蘑菇传媒 Us

As Director of Employability and Student Success, Helen Stringer heads up Employability at the university. Careers, the Skills Centre, faculty and School placement teams and Enterprise collaborate with colleagues across the institution to deliver a broad range of employability opportunities for students.

Contact us

If you'd like to find out more about Employability and Student Success at the university, please get in touch.