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.
Coming up
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Image courtesy of UAL Creative Opportunities Unlocked
We’re unlocking our Creative Opportunities job board to bring to you a 3-day online careers and employability event.
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Student workshop during Graduate Futures Week 2018. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Mead Fellowship Award
Apply now for funding awards of up to £10,000 to support your creative practice.
Online careers support
UAL student or graduate? Get tailored help with your job search, CV, identifying a career path and interview preparation. You can also email us with your questions at any time careers-support@arts.ac.uk
UAL students and 2020 graduates can access our online interview simulator. This tool provides advice, information, sample questions and a mock interview tool to help you prepare for face to face, telephone or video interviews.
You can create an account using your UAL email address. Log in to our online interview simulator.
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.
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Student workshop during Graduate Futures Week 2018. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Awards, funding and mentoring
If you're a UAL student or graduate, our range of funding, mentoring and advice could help you get your business off the ground.
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Photo by Damian Griffiths 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.
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Creative Enterprise Week 2017. Photo by Damian Griffiths. View our programme of events
We run over 150 events each year to support UAL students with their creative careers and businesses.
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Find a job
Find paid internships and jobs in the creative industries. Search Creative Opportunities - UAL’s jobs board for students and graduates.
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
Latest stories
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Creative Opportunities Unlocked
We’re unlocking our Creative Opportunities job board to bring to you a 3-day online careers and employability event.
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Temp Stories: Daniele Nolè - from arts temp to full-time Content Designer at UAL
Hear from Daniele Nolè, UAL’s Digital Content Assistant, about how he got his career started through Art Temps.
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Temp stories: Jyotsna Shelley - Arts Temps as a lifeline to alumni during the pandemic
Jyotsna Shelley (Jyots) has worked for Arts Temps since she started her Foundation Diploma in 2012. We spoke to her about how coming back to UAL through working for Arts Temps has helped her during this time and how it has benefitted her career.
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Mead Fellowship awards
Mead Fellowships are funding awards of up to £10,000 designed to help UAL alumni develop and launch their creative practice.
Stay posted
Start the new year right by applying for a 2021 Mead Fellowship Award ! You can apply for funding of up to £10,000 to support an arts project Find out more: https://t.co/BP779Bj4lL
You've got until 10th January to apply to our Women+ of Colour in Leadership programme! ⚡️ This is an exciting 8-week programme which gives you the opportunity to understand the leader within you, through participant-focused workshops. Apply now👇 https://t.co/1V9wYltDER

We’re unlocking the Creative Opportunities jobs board to bring to you a 3-day online event! You will connect directly with employers, find out about current and future work opportunities and get advice directly from industry. Book now: https://t.co/hOl6P4hUR1 https://t.co/E9L1OQMzDb
We've teamed up with @clarionevents to offer UAL students and graduates a discounted opportunity to showcase their work at Top Drawer On Demand! If selected, your work will be part of the UAL branded virtual group stand. Apply by 10am 16 Dec https://t.co/xLzXCNYOIX