As a student or recent graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University, you may be interested in knowing what support you’re entitled to from the Careers Service. We are here to help you make the most of your time at University to enable you to use your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience in planning your future career direction.
What we offer We offer a range of services to prospective students, current students and graduates of the University, both face-to-face and online. We work with academic colleagues to provide appropriate career education in the curriculum where possible. Our main services are delivered centrally offering a range of services and information as outlined below.
Careers advice and guidance
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We have a team of fully qualified careers advisers who provide a confidential, impartial and professional service.
Career clinics
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We offer short 15-minute appointments via our clinics to allow you to have a short discussion with an adviser. This is enough time to ask a few questions or check one CV, cover letter, LinkedIn profile or application, so please do be realistic about what we can achieve in this time.
Careers appointments
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Careers appointments provide an opportunity for students and graduates to hold an in-depth discussion with a careers adviser. These can last up to 45 minutes and can be booked online.
Practice interviews
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These give you the chance to practice your interview skills and receive feedback to help you to prepare for any interviews. You will be asked to provide a copy of your application form or CV and job description at least three working days in advance. You can book a practice interview online. You will then receive an email with instructions on how to provide the details of the job and your application.
Note that at busy times, appointments do get added where we are able and a cancelled appointment will become available immediately online. Please keep looking for available times. We operate a fair use policy, where students and graduates are offered a maximum of four careers appointments and four clinic appointments in any 365 days.
Graduates
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If you graduated from GCU less than two years ago you can still access our services, and appointments with a Careers Adviser can be booked online . Please note we operate during normal office hours, but you can have access to the extensive information available via our free resource Career Planning Toolkit at any time. Questions can also be asked via the appointments/vacancy system “Ask a question” tab .
Careers information and communications
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The Careers Service aims to provide up-to-date resources enabling you to make informed decisions matching your skills, abilities and preferences with the opportunities available. A range of takeaway information is available in the Careers Center - find us at the Campus Life Lounge, level 1, George Moore building.
We provide comprehensive information on our website including free access to the online interactive learning resource called Career Planning Toolkit. If you are looking to keep in touch with the very latest Careers Service news you can do this via our blog , our X feed and our Facebook page . We will strive to keep all information up to date and accurate and may in the future add to our methods of communication.
Careers workshops, group sessions and courses
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We offer a range of online careers-related workshops, presentations and group sessions to all students throughout the year, for more information and to book please visit our events page . You can also follow our X feed, our Facebook page and our blog .
Employer events, presentations and mentoring
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Employer events occur throughout term time and are organised by the Careers Service, these may be offered centrally or via your course. We may ask you to sign up for these in advance. If this is the case, you should inform us in advance if you are unable to attend so that we can reallocate your place.
Information on any events offered by employers can be found on our events webpage and via our blog . We also offer students an opportunity to be mentored by a GCU alumni. For information on this, visit our mentoring page,
Vacancies
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We provide a quality vacancy system for all students and graduates of GCU. This contains part-time jobs both on and off campus, voluntary opportunities, work experience, internships and graduate jobs. Our team ensures that all opportunities are relevant for our students and graduates covering as many occupational areas as possible. This system is specifically for GCU, providing local, national and international opportunities.
This service is free for our students to use and for the employers who post on this site. We ensure that all vacancies comply with relevant laws and we follow the Code of Ethics by Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service (AGCAS) . We also comply with the published Code of Practice for Higher Education Student Employment Services , issued by the former National Association of Student Employment Service.
All GCU Glasgow and London students are automatically given full access to CareerHub@GCU. The system is single sign-on which means you can simply log in using your usual GCU username and password.
You will be eligible to use the service for up to 2 years after completion of your studies. Please note that your login method will change but not right away so please continue to login using your usual GCU username and password even after you complete your studies. When student records update your status to ‘graduate’ you will then receive an email to explain that your CareerHub login method has changed. That email will explain how to reset your password and login via the graduate login button moving forward.
You can login via the user login.
The Common Good Award
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The Common Good Award is a skills and personal development award offered to all students by the Careers Team. We offer students the opportunity to gain an award from GCU recognising informal learning gained through extra and co-curricular activities. Find out more about the Common Good Award .
Our commitment to you
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We will: Provide appropriate information, advice or guidance, or if necessary, refer you to an alternative agency Work with you where possible to support your career decision-making, opportunity awareness and applications beyond University Give you access to a careers appointment online or face-to-face within three weeks. If we fail to meet this target please contact our Head of Service Ellen.Gibson@gcu.ac.uk Respond to email enquiries within five working days Be professional, confidential and impartial when handling of your enquiry Keep your personal details in accordance with the University’s Data Protection Policy. Abide by the AGCAS Code of Ethics. You can also view Glasgow Caledonian University’s Equality and Diversity Policy .
What we expect from you
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That you are a current student or have graduated within the last two years from a senate-awarded course at Glasgow Caledonian University. Further details about eligibility to use our services. Awareness that the process of choosing, changing or developing your career can take time – results are not always immediate. That, if possible, in preparation for your appointment, you use our careers information resources to research your enquiry A personal commitment to work towards the goals that are defined. If you have booked an appointment or an event, that you cancel or notify us as soon as possible if you are unable to attend the activity through whichever system you used to book. In order that we can answer your careers enquiry fully, you provide us with relevant information in good time (such as job description and CV/application form three days before a practice interview). Take part in the national Graduate Outcomes Survey after you graduate and provide the University with accurate information.
Feedback
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We are committed to developing and continuously improving the quality of our services. We welcome any suggestions, comments or compliments you may have, and we carry out regular evaluations to find out how students and other users experience our service. If you have any concerns regarding our services please inform us as soon as possible in order that we can try to resolve them.
You can contact the Head of the Careers Service, Ellen Gibson, in writing, by email at: Ellen.Gibson@gcu.ac.uk . Any formal complaints are dealt with in accordance with the University complaints and grievance procedure for students .
If you graduated from GCU less than two years ago you can still access our services, and appointments with a Careers Adviser can be booked online . Please note we operate during normal office hours. Questions can also be asked via the appointments/vacancy system “Ask a question” tab .
