GCU Employability Award

The GCU Employability Award is GCU’s employability and skills award run by the Careers Service, which aims to encourage, support and reward students engaged in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Completing this award will help students develop key employability skills that employers now increasingly expect in addition to a university degree. Students can also use this award to demonstrate to employers key examples of where they have put skills into action, which will be crucial for future job applications.

The GCU Employability Award has two stages.

Stage one

The completion of the individual certificates. There are three certificates students can apply for:

• The Work Experience and Development Certificate
• The Common Good Certificate
• The Global Engagement Certificate.

Stage 2

The completion of the full GCU Employability Award. You'll find full details of the process of applying for the full award online.

The award is designed to be flexible, allowing completion alongside academic studies. You potentially have up to five years to complete the award  - four years at undergraduate and one year at taught postgraduate - or you can use our Recognition of Prior Learning system if you joined Glasgow Caledonian after first year.

The GCU Employability Award is open to all students registered on taught programmes at Glasgow Caledonian University at the time of application.

You can find out more in the GCU Employability Award Student Handbook.

To apply, register on Career Hub.