Support for Graduates

Careers support from University of Chester Careers and Employability, doesn't end when you leave university.

Careers Support for our graduates

We are here to help you explore, develop or review a career idea or path, discover what’s important to you and work out your next steps. One-to-one Career Advice Meetings, with our friendly and professionally qualified Career Consultants, are available remotely (via MS Teams), over the telephone or in-person. We also offer advice and guidance and have a range of resources on a variety of topics including CVs, applications, interviews, further study, entrepreneurship (starting a business or freelancing) and much more!

Services and support available include:

  • Career Advice Meetings
  • Graduate Traineeships
  • The Venture Programme
  • Our full range of electronic resources
  • Our vacancy search engine on CareerHub

* Some of our services are only open to graduates of up to two years*

Explore CareerHub to discover more

The Getting Hired Toolkit has been designed with you in mind. Its purpose is to help you become more confident and familiar with the common steps involved in applying for jobs. Through activities and information, you will strengthen your knowledge with key topics such as writing a strong CV, recognising your skills and strengths and how to ace your interviews, all helping to support you towards a successful transition to the world of work.

Getting Hired Toolkit

Graduate Traineeships are paid opportunities designed to help you become more employable. They are exclusively available to University of Chester graduates. There are many benefits to undertaking one of our internships. You'll gain real work experience whilst making a difference to a host employer. Some internships and placements have led to permanent job offers!. Our Chester Internships offer paid, flexible work across different sectors and industries whilst you make an impact and gain valuable experience.

Graduate Traineeship Opportunities usually open in October and close December.

You can view current internships here (external link to CareerHub)

Venture is an enterprise programme open to all graduates (up to 2 years). It helps you explore self-employment, freelancing or starting a business by building your skills, knowledge, confidence and connections.

For more information, visit the Venture Programme homepage (external link to CareerHub)

Get ready for graduate roles with our 'Get a Graduate Job' initiative. Our 'Get a Graduate Job' initiative connects you with graduate roles from various sectors, offered by employers that we partner with. 

To find out more about Get a Graduate Job, please visit our GGJ Information Page (external link to CareerHub) 

Graduates of the University of Chester can still access CareerHub.  How you log in as a graduate is slightly different from that as a student. This is all explained in the help sheet below.  If you have any problems logging in, please email careers@chester.ac.uk  

Logging into CareerHub help sheet (external link to CareerHub - login not required)

Graduate Outcomes (GO) survey: Use your graduate voice

Graduate Outcomes logo

The Graduate Outcomes survey is your chance to tell us what you have been doing since leaving the University, whether this is employment, further study, setting up your own business, or something totally different.  Even if you have come back on a new course, we would still like to hear from you. It’s also an opportunity to say how your course prepared you for what you’re doing and for your future career plans. 

You will receive an email roughly 15 months after the end of your course, with a link to complete the survey online.

It’s really important we get as many responses as possible. Your response will help the University and your department to evaluate the course you took, for the benefit of current and future students.  Think back to when you were first applying to university.  You may remember using the DiscoverUni website to help you choose your course.   It’s anonymised data from Graduate Outcomes, which is used here.  Completing Graduate Outcomes will help future students make informed decisions, just as past graduates helped you only a few years ago.

You will receive a secure link to the Graduate Outcomes survey by email.  If it’s not possible to get in touch with you by email, you may receive a phone call. The caller will introduce themselves as phoning from IFF Research on behalf of the University of Chester.  But it’s much quicker and easier to complete online.

If you have new contact details to help us with this, please let us know.  The way to update your details depends on whether you are a student or a graduate.

To make a difference and to shape the future of higher education, complete your Graduate Outcomes survey at your earliest convenience, once it lands in your inbox. We will let you know when you are due to be surveyed as the time approaches.  If you don’t receive the link when you would be expecting it, let us know via the above email address.  We don’t want you to miss your chance to let us know what you’re doing.

Further information about the Graduate Outcomes survey can be found at graduateoutcomes website.

NB: Please note that the contact details that you provide may be used for future communications from the University of Chester.

About the Graduate Outcomes survey

Support from our Development and Alumni Relations Office

The Development and Alumni Relations Office are also here to support you along your journey. More information about the programmes, events and networking opportunities available to you can be found online.