Student Careers
Careers and Employability empowers UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.
Our range of services can help you to build a successful career, whether you want to be an employee, freelancer, entrepreneur or creative practitioner.
We provide:
- One-to-one advice (email careers-support@arts.ac.uk)
- Career resources
- Events and workshops
- Awards, funding and mentoring
- Job opportunities
- Freelance and business support
- Opportunities to exhibit and sell your work
Support is free and accessible to all UAL students and graduates (up to 5 years after graduation).
We don't have a student-facing office, but you can email us anytime with any questions: careers-support@arts.ac.uk, or for graduates, you can email gradsupport@arts.ac.uk
Get involved
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Creative Hack
UAL Creative Hack is a creative hackathon, offering students and recent graduates the opportunity to come together to learn, innovate, create and present their ideas to address the Capital’s challenges and make London a better place to live, work and visit. There is £2,500 worth of prize money awarded to the most innovative ideas and team work.
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Credit Illustration by Gracie Dahl
Join our Founders and Freelancers network
Work for yourself or want to in the future? Sign up to be part of our Founders and Freelancers group on The Dots!
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International Start-up visa
Want to set up your own business? UAL can help you apply for a Start-up Visa to stay in the UK after graduation.
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Illustration by Gracie Dahl
Mentoring at UAL
One-to-one mentors offer their support, knowledge and experience to a mentee, usually over a set period of time.
Key resources
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Find a job
UAL can help you to find paid employment during or after your studies through Arts Temps and Creative Opportunities.
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Illustration by Gracie Dahl
Explore our career resources
Our range of online tools and learning guides are designed to help you with your portfolio, interview skills and more.
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Opportunities for underrepresented students
Learn more about Creative Shift, our programme of opportunities and events designed to help you kick start your career.
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Networking by Catarina Fonseca Chaica
Come to our events
Our free events, training sessions and one-to-ones will help you to learn practical skills, gain advice and meet creative professionals.
What are you looking for?
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Money by Gabriele Lorusso
Careers advice for students
Explore the full range of ways we can support you with your career, from making money while you study to preparing for the world of work.
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Collaboration by Gracie Dahl
Careers advice for graduates
Our advisors and resources can support you with identifying your career path, applications and preparing for interviews.
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Starting A Business by Gracie Dahl
Freelance and business support
Our enterprise team can support you with many aspects of setting up and running a successful business or freelance practice.
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Mohammed Adel painting in the studio. Photo Alys Tomlinson
Support for visual artists
Artquest provides the professional information, advice and projects that visual artists need to understand the art world.
Latest stories
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Cliché warning, rejection is a part of life. We’ve all received a rejection letter, email or phone call. It can be really upsetting and cause you to feel disheartened. However - dealing with rejection correctly is important. Allowing rejection to
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Sam Dawood working on a clay model in the Studio, Undergraduate (BA), BA (Hons) Technical Arts & Special Effects, Copyright: Alys Tomlinson Self-compassion is productive
I speak to a lot of students who regularly experience negative self-talk, constantly doubt themselves, and put themselves down. Often, I catch them calling themselves lazy for minor procrastination when they probably needed that break.
