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Student Careers
Careers and Employability empowers UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.
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:
- One-to-one advice.
- Job opportunities and paid internships.
- Mentoring.
- Funding.
- Student-led initiatives.
- Opportunities to showcase and exhibit work.
Support is free and accessible to all of our students.
Who do you help?
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.
Where can I find you?
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.
Stay in touch
Your future helps shape our future
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
Explore and apply
Find a job
Find paid internships and jobs in the creative industries. Search Creative Opportunities - UAL’s jobs board for students and graduates.
Apply to sell your work in not just a shop
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.
View our programme of events
We run over 150 events each year to support UAL students with their creative careers and businesses.
Latest stories
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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.
Stay posted
@CareersUAL: 9 December 2019
Join our visit out to meet freelance graphic designer Man Like Mike this Wednesday! Hear about Mike's work, how he broke into the industry, and where he gets his inspiration. NB Check the 'who can attend this event' section before booking a ticket 😊 https://t.co/9MjC7ZjNGj https://t.co/qwjarXj7dt
@CareersUAL: 2 December 2019
📢 Deadline approaching! 📢 We're looking for 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 #opportunity https://t.co/FzAKv62TR2
@CareersUAL: 22 November 2019
Last Tuesday we held our first Women+ in Leadership talk, which was strongly empowering and a great opportunity to open the conversation about women in powerful positions. Couldn't make it? Don't worry! Read our key takeaways from the event: https://t.co/0Mz02BjudI #UALwomen https://t.co/0RHb6cHrqq
@CareersUAL: 22 November 2019
How do we shape the future to represent the realities we want to see? Join artist/textile designer Chiizii, filmmaker Tomisin Adepeju and graphic designer ManLikeMike for a talk about race and representation at University. Wed 27 Nov 5.30-7.30pm @csm_news https://t.co/mfzGlR3o1I https://t.co/LdBmpZmm4M