• Decisions about life after graduation
• Mapping out your career path
• Linking your choice of modules to you future career
• Changing or taking time out from your course
• Implications of exam results
• Preparing a CV, applying for jobs, and preparing for job interviews
• Deciding between options, e.g. job or course
• Preparing for a transition to year-out placements, graduate employment or postgraduate study
• Develop your employability and skills through tailored workshops and programmes

Services available to students in Careers, Employability and Skills include:

The services offered aim to help you with:

• one-to-one career guidance sessions via bookable guidance interviews
• drop-in quick query sessions with a duty adviser
• careers advice via email at www.qub.ac.uk/careers
• the latest information on placements and graduate opportunities from occupational and employer files, brochures and publications
• internet access with adaptive technology and multi-media equipment careers@qub.ac.uk or Phone: 028 9097 2727

The Careers, Employability and Skills Adviser for the Institute of Theology is Julie Gerrish.
Julie is based at the Student Guidance Centre. 

2.  Employability Skills Initiatives

The Careers Service offers programmes that are open to students of any degree discipline and support the development of employability and career management skills, prepare students for graduate recruitment and provide insight into the graduate labour market.  The programmes are:

• Skills to Succeed is a twelve week Certificate in Career Management and Employability Skills for final year students, meeting two hours per week.  Contact the Careers Service for further information.
• Module offered during both semesters in Career Management and Employability Skills (110ICE282 and 210ICE289).  This is a level two module, meeting for three hours per week.  Enrolment is made through advisers of studies.  Contact the Careers Service for further information.

3.  Information on Career Options 

•  Departmental careers programmes

Careers Advisers organise programmes of talks, workshops and information sessions in partnership with most academic departments.  These include sessions on, for example, career options with your degree subject.  You will be notified of these through posters displayed in your department and where available, by  e-mail.  The Faculty careers advisers run careers two afternoons in the first semester for final year students and taught postgraduates that focus on practical issues such as the graduate job market and effective applications and interviews.  In addition, events may be organised for specific subject areas.  Please look, regularly, at  careers notice boards within your school for details or contact the careers service for details.

•  Autumn and Spring Careers Programmes

These programmes comprise a variety of employer led skills workshops, talks and other
events designed to inform you about career options, international study and work opportunities.  Graduate employers are involved in the delivery of many of the workshops and talks.  The Autumn programme aimed at final and pre-final year students can be collected from the Careers Service at the start of the academic semester in September.  The Spring programme, aimed at pre-final and first year students is available for collection from the Careers Service at he beginning of the second semester.

4.  Access to Recruiters of Students and Graduates

Make the most of opportunities to meet recruiters on campus.  Discover the facts and gain insight into life in the graduate workplace,  how to be effective in selection and recruitment and career development opportunities in your chosen career area.  The Careers Service facilitates student/ employer networking through:

• Careers Fairs
Law
Postgraduate Study
General
IT& Engineering
Media
Work Experience

• Employer led skills workshops
• Company Presentations
• On-Campus recruitment interviews

5.  Quality Careers Information on:

The Careers Service has a well stocked reference library and maintains supplies of useful "take away" publications such as "The Top 100 Graduate Employers", "First Interviews -Sorted" and a wide range of career guides.  The Careers Service has a growing list of useful websites connecting students to on-line recruitment and occupational information.  During your time at Queen's regularly make use of information held on:

• Occupations
• Graduate employers
• Graduate recruitment
• Postgraduate study, funding and vocational training.

6. The Work Placement Centre and Student Jobshop

The Work Placement Centre, which is part of Queen’s Careers Service offers an excellent service to Queen’s students in helping you to become aware of, prepare for and apply to a wide range of work experience opportunities.  These include part-time jobs  both on and off campus, year out placements, vacation work, vacation courses, work shadowing, overseas programmes and voluntary work.

These are only some of the specialist programmes on offer at Queen’s:

BEI (Business Education Initiative - an optional year to study at a college in the USA)
WIP (Washington Ireland Programme summer placement in the USA)
AIESEC (world’s largest international student organisation offers work experience abroad in over 84 countries)
IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience)
Science Shop (opportunities to carry out a research project or work with community and voluntary groups)
Tutoring in schools (runs one half day per week over a semester you will be placed in a local school)
 
The Centre also holds a wide range of free literature including student publications and employer directories.  For more information please contact Deirdre Deery, Work Placement Development Officer on 028 9097 2727or e-mail at d.deery@qub.ac.uk or call to the Student Guidance Centre

7.  Important Notice

If you consider that you have special needs in relation to entering the graduate labour market please ensure that you make contact with the Careers Service at an early stage of your studies.