Supporting your success
On completing your studies you joined a community of University of Exeter alumni, a supportive global network willing to help you achieve your full potential. The careers support you received whilst studying also continues after you graduate ensuring that your employability needs are met no matter where your career takes you. Take a look below at all that’s on offer and visit the website for more information.
Supporting your success
On completing your studies you joined a community of University of Exeter alumni, a supportive global network willing to help you achieve your full potential. The careers support you received whilst studying also continues after you graduate ensuring that your employability needs are met no matter where your career takes you. Take a look below at all that’s on offer and visit the website for more information.
Ask An Alum
Ask An Alum is a simple and reliable way to connect you with fellow alumni, to gain answers to your careers questions, via a short email exchange. More than 4,500 alumni are signed up to the Ask An Alum scheme, undertaking a variety of job roles and from a huge range of organisations, sectors, and countries. You can find out more information about how to apply, suggestions of what you could ask alumni and what happens after you apply, on the website.
Career Zone
You can continue to access the Career Zone in exactly the same way now that you have graduated, with all the resources, support and latest jobs that you were used to accessing whilst studying. You will be supported post-graduation, whatever stage you are at in your career journey. Careers support for graduates includes careers advice and guidance via 1:1 appointments with trained careers consultants, interview and CV support, access to Handshake jobs listings, careers research and events. You can read more about the support on offer on our webpage.
Career mentor scheme
The Career Mentor Scheme is open to recent alumni who have graduated within the last three years!
We have hundreds of experienced professionals offering one-to-one careers advice, support and guidance, to help develop your career. Participants of the scheme are 7% more likely to be in graduate employment after six months than their peers. Even if you have undertaken the scheme before, you can use the scheme again. You can find out more information, including details on how to apply, online.
Access to internships
Access to Internships (A2I) is available to help recent alumni arrange your own paid graduate role in the UK. The Career Zone can help you:
- Identify potential employers
- Make an effective approach to request employment
- Provide employer subsidies to offset the cost of your graduate role
Enterprise and entrepreneurship support
Are you thinking about starting up your own business or improving your entrepreneurial skills? You can access Enterprise & Entrepreneurship careers support as a member of the Exeter alumni community. This includes 1:1 appointments, webinars, skills sessions and much more. Find out more on the website.
Events and webinars
As an alum you will receive invites to a variety of events that take place both in person and virtually related to careers and employability both in the UK and internationally. Previous topics have included ‘building your personal brand’, ‘lessons from alumni in business’ and ‘Job hunting in a difficult economic climate’. A full listing of upcoming events can be found online: where you can also catch up on recordings of some of our virtual events.
Graduate Business Partnerships
The Graduate Business Partnership scheme helps recent graduates secure full-time graduate roles, with supportive employers in the South West. So, if you are missing Devon or Cornwall and you would like to start your career in the South West read more about the scheme on the GBP webpage and sign up for the weekly vacancy bulletin to see all the great opportunities you can apply for.
Networks
As mentioned on the previous page there is a range of alumni networks to support you through your life and career which also run a series of events. Do take a look both in the magazine and online.
Postgraduate/Further study
Postgraduate study, both research and taught, is a popular choice for Exeter graduate and alumni can benefit from alumni scholarships. If you’re considering further study we have information on our website to help with your research and about the options that are available to you. Take a look.
You can find all of this and more summarised on our Careers Support for Graduates webpage.