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Upgrade Your Future Path

Designed for current LCC students and recent graduates, ‘Upgrade Your Future Path’ offers a range of opportunities to connect with the creative industries, receive invaluable advice, and scope out your future career.

What do we offer?

The programme provides support through 3 key activities:

Industry Mentoring Programme (online/in-person)

You’ll be paired with your own industry mentor working across the design, media or screen industries. You'll receive mentoring training, attend a launch event and then, meet up regularly with your mentor over the course of 5 months to explore your career objectives and goals. Mentoring can take place in-person, or online (for those outside of London).

Rapid Review Sessions (online)

In these 25-minute online sessions, an industry advisor will review content such as your CV, website or reel, and discuss career and industry focused questions.

Speed Networking (in-person)

Discuss career-focused topics with industry professionals through a speed dating-style networking session, where you’ll be able to access advice while practising your networking skills.

When does Upgrade Your Future Path take place?

The programme has 2 cycles:

Undergraduate (Summer)

  • Open to current Year 3 undergraduate students and recent BA graduates of LCC
  • June-October: Mentoring (applications have now closed)
  • July: Rapid Review Sessions
  • July: Speed Networking

Postgraduate (Autumn/Winter)

  • Open to current postgraduate students and recent MA graduates of LCC
  • Call for applications opens in November
  • January-May: Mentoring
  • March-April: Rapid Review Sessions
  • March: Speed Networking
Are you a final-year BA student or recent BA graduate interested in the Summer programme?

Applications for the Industry Mentoring Programme have now closed, but you're still able to book for Rapid Review Sessions and Speed Networking. Join our mailing list to receive updates and information on booking  for these.

Are you an MA student or recent MA graduate interested in the Autumn programme?

Applications open in November. Sign up to our mailing list to receive a notification when they open.

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Further information

For further information about the programme please read the Guidelines for potential mentees.

Contact

If you have any questions, or if you'd like to request further details on the programme, contact us: graduates@lcc.arts.ac.uk


Additionally, if you believe that there are any barriers to your participation in this opportunity, or if you have any access requirements that you wish to discuss, we’ll be happy to talk to you – simply get in touch via email on the address above.

The programme stripped away the unsettling fears and insecurities of entering the creative industries.

— Sydney Luntz MA Media, Communications and Critical Practice graduate and LCC mentee
My mentor has been absolutely fantastic! From allowing me to shadow him at work and through meetings, to offering me summer employment – I have gained invaluable professional advice and experience that I never would have imagined beforehand.

— Annie Croll MA PR graduate and LCC mentee

LCC Stories

  • Mentoring Spotlight: Lucie Chambeau x Katrina Young
    Image credit: Lucie Chambeau, MA Media, Communications and Critical Practice 2021.

    Mentoring Spotlight: Lucie Chambeau x Katrina Young

    Recent graduate Lucie Chambeau and her mentor, digital marketing and technology consultant Katrina Young, discuss their experiences of taking part in LCC's Industry Mentoring Programme.

  • Mentoring Spotlight: Preeti Buljhoo x Jonathan Paterson
    Image taken from 'Bridging the Gaps', a publication on research and public engagement in the Media School developed by students on MA Publishing at London College of Communication.

    Mentoring Spotlight: Preeti Buljhoo x Jonathan Paterson

    MA Publishing graduate Preeti Buljhoo and her mentor, editor and journalist Jonathan Paterson, discuss their experiences of taking part in LCC's Industry Mentoring Programme.

  • Mentoring Spotlight: Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste x Melissa Quashie
    Examples of work from Karl-Lydie's MA portfolio. Image credit: Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste.

    Mentoring Spotlight: Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste x Melissa Quashie

    We chat to MA Public Relations graduate Karl-Lydie Jean-Baptiste and her mentor, publicity manager Melissa Quashie, about their experiences of taking part in the LCC Industry Mentoring Programme.

  • Mentoring Spotlight: Sheida Kiran x Aileen McCracken
    Image credit: Still taken from ‘Harvesting Our Tea’, 2021 - Sheida Kiran.

    Mentoring Spotlight: Sheida Kiran x Aileen McCracken

    We chat to MA Documentary Film student Sheida Kiran and her mentor, series producer Aileen McCracken, about their experiences of taking part in the LCC Industry Mentoring Programme.