Careers and Employability Centre

For staff

Our mission

To work closely with the University (Schools and professional services) students and employers to enable all students (undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates) to enhance their personal skill development, professional identity, employability and career awareness.

We are now called the Careers and Employability Centre (not CDEC any longer!).

Our strap line for students is:  Develop your full potential with US

Liaison with Schools

Arts

Social Sciences

Science

Advice, employability & career awareness

Advice & guidance

  • Individual, impartial and confidential careers education, information, advice and guidance for all students and an aftercare service of 3 years after graduation
  • Individual appointments can be made by emailing careers@sussex.ac.uk, telephoning: 01273 678429 or by calling in to the Careers & Employability Centre

Employability, personal development planning & career awareness

  • Sussex Plus enables students to develop a webfolio to showcase skills and evidence of reflection in academic, work & personal life. Double click the image below to view our stall leaflet online, or download a copy Sussex Plus staff leaflet or visit www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexplus
 
  • Career Development Course (6 credits) for undergraduates in the sciences and technology level 2. Delivered until 2010/2011 in its present form
  • Working with the Doctoral School on its Professional Development for Researchers programme.

Employment & Events

Vacancies and Recruiting students

Employer liaison and events

  • We offer over 80 career workshops, seminars and fairs each year. More than 300 employers come to campus for a variety of events
  • Check our database of employers
  • Find out what employer events we are holding
  • Promote your own career-related events through us
  • Main contact - Jocelyn Owen E: Jocelyn.Owen@sussex.ac.uk

Careers Information & Graduate Destinations

Careers Information

  • Resources to help students with postgraduate study/training, employment, starting their own business or workng freelance
  • Check out our using your degree pages for subject-specific careers information
  • See researching careers for sectoral information, general careers links and reference books
  • Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter
  • Main contact - Darren Jones E: D.M.Jones@sussex.ac.uk

Graduate destinations

  • See what our graduates do for our annual destination survey of leavers, including a full annual report 
  • Find out what recent leavers are doing, by department or school of study
  • Surveys are taken 6 months after graduation and do not represent long-term career paths; only UK and EU graduates are surveyed
  • This contributes to National League Tables
  • Main contact - Dave Gillman E: D.W.Gillman@sussex.ac.uk

See also

Latest reports

More labour market reports

Working with you

We work with all students from the moment they come to the University. We rely on academic colleagues to refer students to the services we offer to enhance their employability and career awareness

We also work with research members of staff (funded through the Roberts initiative 2010/2011). We do not offer a service to other staff (unless, they are also part-time students)

Quality assurance

We work within the Matrix Quality Standard for Information, Advice and Guidance and the QAA Code, Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (2010).  Contact Linda Buckham E: L.G.buckham@sussex.ac.uk if you have any comments or feedback about the service