Careers, Employability and Enterprise Centre

  • Exploring your options

    • How we can help

      The Careers Centre provides a wide range of services and resources to students and graduates. This section provides more information on the services we provide including how to make an appointment with a careers adviser.

    • Getting started - career options

      Exploring your career options can seem a daunting task. The resources available to you at the Careers Centre will help you to begin researching options linked to your interests, skills, academic study and professional aspirations.

    • Career research - sector information

      If you are still trying to decide what to do after graduation or if you want to find out more about a couple of career areas that are currently of interest to you, you should take a look at the following sector-specfic information.

    • What do graduates do?

      Durham graduates progress into an incredibly diverse range of professions. This is reflected in the current destination of leavers information that can be accessed in this section of the website.

    • Further study

      The variety of study options available is incredibly broad which is why it is very important to consider your reasons for pursuing further study and to research the most appropriate options.

    • Timetable for action

      This timetable will help you plan and prepare during your penultimate and final year.

  • Employability Skills

    • What is employability?

    • Discover your skills

      Find out more about the different ways in which you can develop your skills.

    • Be enterprising

      Enterprise is not just about self-employment but being innovative, creative and flexible in a wide range of circumstances. Find out more about how we can support entrepreneurial activity and develop enterprise skills.

    • Explore work experience

      Any kind of work experience is valuable and there are lots of opportunities available to you.

  • Events and fairs

    • Events service

      Find out more about the exciting range of employer, careers and skills events that we provide.

    • Career fairs

      The Careers Centre hosts four major career fairs every year. Find out more about when these events take place and how to make the most of them.

    • Discover your skills

      Take advantage of the opportunities that we provide to develop the key transferable skills that graduate employers look for.

    • ChatLive

      ChatLive is a online resource enabling you to chat with a range of experts (careers centre staff, employers, professionals, academics and students) on a variety of career and employment related topics throughout the course of the academic year.

  • CVs, applications and interviews

  • Finding opportunities

    • Vacancy search

      Search for future vacancies, gap year opportunities, immediate vacancies, placements, internships and local part time work in a variety of sectors

    • Graduate jobs

      Information relating to researching graduate jobs

    • Working outside the UK

      A wide variety of resources to help your research into careers and jobs outside of the UK

    • Diversity and employment

      The Careers, Employability and Enterprise Centre is committed to equality of career opportunity for all Durham University students. This section of our website The following sections contain useful links supporting, advising and informing within the context of diversity and career development.

    • Part time and vacation work

      Information about finding part time work to carry out alongside your studies

    • Postgraduate study

      Information and advice relating to finding postgraduate study opportunities

    • Enterprise

      Enterprise is not just about self-employment but being innovative, creative and flexible in a wide range of circumstances. Find out more about how we can support entrepreneurial activity and develop enterprise skills.

The Careers Centre is here to support you in researching your career ideas, developing skills for employment, applying for jobs and further study and meeting potential employers. We provide a number of key services:

  • Careers guidance, advice and information
  • Vacancies and work experience opportunities
  • Skills and enterprise workshops
  • Employer events and fairs

Information on all of the services and resources that we provide is available through the navigation menu above. Keep up to date with the very latest events and opportunities via our dedicated Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Photograph competition - Memories of Durham Yearbook

Do you want to be represented in a publication which is picked up by all graduates at summer/winter congregation and also have the chance to win a Kindle? If the answer is 'yes' then participate in our photograph competition in support of the Memories of Durham publication.

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