Careers and placements
Careers and Placements
The Careers and Placements Team are here to inspire you and help you make the right choices about your future.
Careers
Whether you're in your first year or your last, it's never too early to start thinking about your career. We have friendly, specialist careers consultants who can give you valuable insights and work closely with you on your career planning and job seeking. We have a centre on all three campuses where you can drop-in for a quick interview or make an appointment.
Find out more about:
- career ideas, starting your career planning
- job seeking, vacancies and opportunities
- the application process, CVs and interview techniques
- our extensive employer events and wide range of careers workshops
- our employability programmes and services, including the Acceler8 employability award, the Institute of Directors and mentoring
Visit the Careers website and get your career on track.
Placements
Exciting, challenging and incredibly beneficial to your career, placements give you the valuable experience you need to put everything you learn in the classroom into real-life practice.
We offer as many students as possible the opportunity to gain relevant work experience as part of their course. Any work experience is beneficial to your employment prospects and, increasingly, having experience and applied skills is the critical factor employers are looking for and could make all the difference to your employment prospects after you leave us.
Many NTU courses offer a placement, lasting anything from two weeks to a whole academic year and they are usually salaried. Often students who take a placement as part of their degree are offered a chance to work for the company after they graduate.
Find out more about:
- the benefits of a placement
- where you can do a placement, including opportunities abroad
- finding a placement
- setting up and running your own business in The Hive (instead of a standard placement)
- opportunities here with Nottingham Trent University’s own professional placement scheme
It’s really competitive out there and so you need to be well prepared to give yourself the best chance of securing a great placement. Remember that you're not alone; we can offer you a lot of support.
Visit the Placements webpage to find out more
Useful employability services here at Nottingham Trent University:
