Employability
Key facts
turn your Higher Education experiences to your career advantage
enhance and hone your skills via a range of opportunities delivered through our Employability and Career Accelerator Programme
plan your personal development and review your learning
understand and communicate your skills and activities
gain the skills – leadership, personal initiative, commercial awareness and team working – employers increasingly look for when recruiting graduates
- Study Success at Sussex
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Study Success at Sussex (S3) is an interactive online resource especially designed to help you develop your academic/study skills. S3 includes online tutorials and video guides from students and staff. For more information about online learning support, refer to Learning resources.
- Professional placements
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Our newly expanded range of opportunities to undertake one-year or half-year placements enables you to broaden and enrich your studies. For more information, refer to Professional placements.
- Sussex Plus
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Sussex Plus encourages you to develop your confidence and recognise your skills by getting involved in extracurricular, academic and student development activities, parttime work and volunteering through Project V. It helps you to reflect on your experiences, documenting what you’ve learned in an attractive multimedia webfolio – like an online CV but with so much more. You can also take part in opportunities such as the Learning to Lead intensive leadership programme with affiliation to the Institute of Leadership and Management, or be active in student media.
- Startup Sussex
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If you are a budding entrepreneur interested in starting your own business or social enterprise and have ideas to solve a commerical or social problem, Startup Sussex is perfect for you. You can bid for a £2,000 prize to spend on developing your idea, get the support from entrepreneurial experts in the Sussex Innovation Centre on campus and attend creativity workshops and network with successful entrepreneurs.
- First-Generation Scholars scheme
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As a First-Generation Scholar, you will be invited to attend a bespoke work-study programme of developmental workshops to build your confidence, academic study skills and employability to help you:
- develop career awareness about entering professional and career pathways
- find part-time paid work while studying
- access funded work experience/ placements and internships to help you try out your options
- explore further professional training pathways.
Careers and Employability Centre
Key facts
help finding part-time work while you study
help with CV preparation, job-hunting and professional placement preparation
information about career pathways, employers and further training
careers events, skill and personal development workshops and fairs delivered through our Employability Accelerator Programme
test out your entrepreneurship ideas, win £2,000 prizes and get business coaching
- What the Careers and Employability Centre can offer you
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The University’s Careers and Employability Centre complements your academic training during your time at Sussex. Our team of career professionals can help you to enrich your student experience and develop career strategies to enhance your employability. We help you to find opportunities suited to your skills, knowledge and interests:
- help with job hunting – individual discussion and group sessions to hone your strategies for starting your career
- CV preparation and advice, and help with researching potential employers
- information on different types of work, career pathways, employers, vacancies, further training/study, reference books and various takeaway publications
- career events designed to put you in touch with employers, Sussex alumni and professionals: from workshops to help you secure that first interview, to fairs and employer talks about graduate opportunities
- skills workshops
- a range of fairs focusing on different aspects of graduate recruitment
- web pages featuring information on building experience, part-time jobs, finalist and graduate vacancies.
- Part-time work opportunities
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Many students work part time and in vacations to earn extra money. The Careers and Employability Centre advertises details of a wide range of temporary and part-time jobs each year. You can access these via Careers and Employbility Centre: Jobs.
With thriving tourism and creative digital media industries, Brighton is a good place to look for part-time work. Our students apply for jobs in shops, hotels, bars, restaurants and offices, as well as on campus.