Your Careers Service

When you come to study with us, you receive in-depth advice and assistance with your career development. We want you to achieve your ambitions, make the most out of your experiences, develop your skills and to help you manage your future career.

What can you expect from your Careers Service?

Our Careers Service offers a wide range of support to help you throughout every step of your journey. We will ensure you are exposed to the best possible options for work-experience and career opportunities from your first year right through to graduation.

Many of our services can be tailored to suit your career path of choice. You can expect to receive bespoke support from our team, that reflects the style of interview and CV that is required for your route of choice.

This short video explains how the Careers Team can support you throughout your studies:

The Careers Service offers the following services:

1-2-1 Appointments

Our Career Consultants are here to offer you career guidance face-to-face and virtually. These flexible appointments can take place throughout the day or in the evenings and are designed to fit around your studies. Each appointment is completely bespoke, to suit your needs and the sector you are interested in.

Appointments can cover the following:

• Career planning
• CV writing
• Cover letter and application reviews
• Mock interviews
• Enterprise activities
• Psychometric test practices

Career Development Resources

Whilst you are studying with us, you will receive unlimited access to our online Careers Portal, QA Higher Education Careers Online, full of helpful resources including employer videos and practice psychometric tests.

We also put together a weekly newsletter, highlighting current job opportunities as well as on-campus workshops and events in your local area. Find out more about networking opportunities and employed-led events, alongside upcoming recruitment simulations, to help you prepare for assessment centres.

Internship and Placement Service

The Internship and Placement Service help you obtain industry-related work-experience, as well as paid work (subject to visa restrictions). Whether this is part of your Advance Practice Masters or to develop your employability skills outside of your studies, our team are on hand to offer you support and guidance with finding placements.

How to access the online career portal

You can now access your online careers portal from any computer, tablet or via our new app!

Careers Online gives you 1-click access to all of your career resources, so you can develop your employability skills on the go. You can also use the app to book appointments, sign-up to events and receive work experience opportunities. Getting online is easy, just follow the steps below:

On your smartphone:
Download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

On your computer or tablet:
Type the URL: qahecareersonline.careercentre.me into your browser and click “my profile” to generate your code. Enter the code along with your username (email address) on the login page to access the content.

Meet the Team

Your Careers Team are on hand to help you throughout your career development journey, find out more about the team below.

Juliette Chase – Head of Careers

Anuja Basra – Senior Careers Manager

Petya Karaivanova – Careers Campus Manager

Humera Aftab – Senior Careers and Employability Specialist

Marija Rupcic – Employer Engagement and Internship Manager

Marcus Palmer – Employer Engagement and Internship Advisor

Harry Stamp – Career Advisor

Contact the team

Want to know more about the careers support available to you? Email the team on yourcareers@qa.com to book an appointment or drop into the Careers Service office when you are next on campus.

More information is available via Careers Online .