Support for graduates
Congratulations on completing your studies at Strathclyde. Whether you are looking for work, further study, self-employment, professional development or still considering your options, we are here to help.
Eligibility
All Strathclyde graduates are entitled to use the Careers Service for up to 5 years after graduation (where we are able to help, bearing in mind that our core expertise is with immediate graduate labour markets and further study options).
Graduate access to Careers Service online resources
Graduates eligible to use the Careers Service can access Careers Service online resources, including:
- MyCareer events/appointments system
- MyCareerHub Strathclyde vacancy portal
- Careers Toolkit
Find out more about graduate access to Careers Service online resources.
Key Resources
Careers Service Website
The Student and Graduates section of our website contains a vast range of helpful information to support you.
Our resources on Choosing Your Career and Making Applications are a great place to start.
Careers Toolkit
When using these pages you will find links to the Careers Toolkit. The Toolkit has a wide range of resources and programmes to help you with identifying your strengths, creating a CV (and gain instant feedback with CV360). and practising your interview technique. You will require a graduate account to access the Careers Online Toolkit.
**Updated for 2022 – My Graduate Career, an online programme for Graduates on our Careers Toolkit**
The Careers Service has developed a programme to support you and your career development as a graduate. It includes a range of activities for you to work through from exploring your options, reflecting on your skills and experience to date, to providing you with support with recruitment processes and starting work. There are 8 sections in total, you can either work through the whole programme or go straight to the sections that are most relevant to you.
Use the resources below to search for graduate jobs, create winning applications, prepare for interviews, gain work experience and much more.
One-to-One Support
We offer the same level and type of support to eligible Strathclyde graduates as we do to our current students, including face-to-face, email and Zoom/telephone appointments.
- Guidance appointment To book a guidance appointment with one of our Careers Consultants please email yourcareer@strath.ac.uk Appointments have to be made in advance. We will give you the earliest suitable appointment possible but please plan ahead. We make every effort to provide an appointment within 3 weeks but this will not always be possible at busy times of the year.
- CV/application check After you have read the advice on our CV pages and then used CV360 on our Careers Online Toolkit, you can book an appointment for a CV or application check online.
- Practice Interview if you have an upcoming interview or feel you could benefit from a practice interview please email yourcareer@strath.ac.uk
Scottish Graduate Fair
The Scottish Graduate Fair is the largest graduate recruitment event in Scotland and takes place in October each year.
What we expect from graduates
- To take responsibility for planning and managing your own career
- Honour any commitments that you have made with us such as a phone/Zoom or face to face appointment
- Have a realistic view of what we can discuss with you during the time available (30 minutes) and undertake any preparation suggested beforehand in order to get the most from your appointment