We offer practical events, mentoring, funding, advice and temporary work to support UAL students and graduates with their freelance work, artistic practice, business or career.
Services include:
Support is free and accessible to all of our students.
We believe that everyone should be able to achieve their creative ambitions, regardless of their background or circumstance.
Our services are generally open to students and graduates (up to 5 years after graduation) from all UAL Colleges. Some opportunities (such as funding and selected internships) are limited to specific groups but we make it clear when this is the case.
Careers and Employability doesn’t have a student-facing office. However, we do have Student Employability Practitioners; members of staff who are based in each College during term time and run events to support you with your career.
Support for graduates is provided by our dedicated Graduate Developer.
Careers and Employability are committed to helping you to make a living doing what you love. It's really important to us to find out how you are getting on, so we will be getting back in touch about 15 months after you have graduated to conduct the 'Graduate Outcomes Survey'.
The information you share with us will help us to understand what all of our graduates are doing, which in turn will inform how we design careers support for the next generation of UAL graduates. Please help us and future graduates by taking a few minutes to respond.
To find out more about the survey please email: careers-employability@arts.ac.uk
Find paid internships and jobs in the creative industries. Search Creative Opportunities - UAL’s jobs board for students and graduates.
If you're a student or graduate from UAL you can apply to sell your work in not just a shop through our open calls.
We run over 150 events each year to support UAL students with their creative careers and businesses.
Students participating have 3 minutes to pitch and 3 minutes to answer questions from the judges on the panel. Many students use this as an opportunity to get traction for their projects and gain valuable professional advice from the judging panel,
We recently caught up with Afeni Payne Bonnick, a final year student studying Contemporary Media Cultures at LCC, to talk about her inspiring journey over the past year with Creative Shift.
Creative Shift Visits are a series of visits out to meet creative agencies, organizations or individuals. The visits are a chance to see behind the scenes of creative companies, meet professionals, build your network, ask questions and understand
Last week we held our first event of the year, which was hugely popular and a great opportunity to introduce ourselves and what we do. For those of you who missed it, we’re covering some of the main points of the talk, so that you too can learn
“What works for other people won’t necessarily work for you. Don’t be afraid to forge your own path” #UALwomen @SarahAkwisombe
“Always remember there’s a reason why you have a seat at the table. Repeat to yourself; I’ve earned my place” #UALwomen @Jodie_Eastwood
“It’s important to get internal advocates where you work as you won’t always be in the decision making room” #UALwomen @60mcareercoach
We're looking for leading creative companies, employers & professional individuals to organise events, offer advice & host stands for Creative Futures 2020 in exchange for partnership or funding! Find out more at https://t.co/j2ubT3ZeG3 #jobfair #employers #opportunity https://t.co/tMwLVtJUqx