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Student Careers
Online careers support
UAL student or graduate? Get tailored help with your job search, CV, identifying a career path and interview preparation. Our online chat service is available from Monday-Friday (10am-3pm) on this page. You can also email us with your questions at any time careers-support@arts.ac.uk
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
Future Women+ Leaders
University of the Arts London (UAL) launched its first ever Future Women+ Leaders programme in February, to inspire and empower women+ to break through the glass ceiling and become the creative leaders of the future.
Women+ In Leadership: How to Network
To help students and graduates to get the most out of networking opportunities, Careers and Employability hosted a workshop on ‘How to Network’ at LCC on 4 February 2020. The workshop was facilitated by London College of Fashion graduate and
Instagram Masterclass
Last term Creative Shift and Connect To were joined by Untapped Digital to talk us through how they started out as a social media agency and to share some top tips on using Instagram.
Stay posted
@CareersUAL: 8 April 2020
Looking forward to joining @creative_entrs on their Zoom Dive this Thursday, to have all of my questions about the government's financial support programmes answered by Lloyd Gunton from @safferys. If you have questions too, sign up! https://t.co/kkDa5hpfZE
@CareersUAL: 7 April 2020
Want to find out more about the Start-up visa? If you're an international student considering applying for the Start-up visa in the next round or just want to hear more about your options, sign-up to hear advice on making an application & how it works! https://t.co/mcS6rRMX1J
@CareersUAL: 3 April 2020
Join this live coaching session for South East Asian creatives tomorrow via zoom! The session is led by Lenise Logan, President of Kalpa Art Advisory Sign up: https://t.co/XkioliNSoD https://t.co/IGzczzZUgU
@CareersUAL: 1 April 2020
UAL student or graduate? Get tailored help with your job search, CV, identifying a career path and interview preparation. Our online chat service is available from Monday-Friday 10am-3pm at https://t.co/elPF1Oua00. You'll see the chat box pop up between those times! https://t.co/18vzN59iCU