Each department has a dedicated careers consultant who works closely with the departments careers advisers (DCAs) to ensure bespoke and timely careers support is offered. Please feel free to email your appropriate contact with any questions or queries you may have or you can email careers and we will direct you accordingly.

In many departments we also work with programme leads and academics to provide integrated transferable skills training within curriculum. Here a few examples of sessions we run within various departments:

• 1^st year Mechanical Engineering – Teambuilding sessions to support group work
• 2^nd year Med Bio – Reflection sessions to support LabPod 2 assessment
• 3^rd year Computing – Time management to support more flexible module choices
• 4^th year Physics – Objective setting to support project development
• Faculty of Medicine Masters programmes – Networking for success

We are happy to discuss individual programme needs and create bespoke content to fit with individual programmes.

• Confidential one to one discussions

  These may be used for interview practice, preparing CVs and applications, working out careers ideas and strategy for achieving the next stage in your professional life, or for any topic you wish to discuss. See how to book an appointment with a careers consultant.

  Please note: Postdocs are limited to two one to one discussions per academic year.

• Career development courses

  Courses covering planning your career in and outside academia, preparing for interviews for academia and outside are available during the year. Full details of these courses and how to book are given on the Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre web pages.

• Careers events

  The Careers Service organises a number of activities throughout the year: for example: science and engineering fairs, careers talks, employer presentations. See our What's on webpages.

• Vacancies and employer information

  See the Jobs and experience webpages, and browse JobsLive for the most recent job vacancies and registered employers. 

  Additional help and support can be found via the Vitae website

People and Organisational Development offer support for staff career and professional development.

The Careers Service is funded to support students and does not offer careers guidance to College staff apart from postdocs or to Imperial Alumni within three years of graduation.

The Careers Service is happy to support personal tutors in any way needed. Each department has a dedicated careers consultant who work closely with each department's departmental careers advisers (DCAs) to ensure bespoke and timely careers support is offered. Alternatively, you can email careers and we will direct you accordingly.

To help you support your tutees, we have created webpage on career planning which you can direct them to as a starting point, including the career journey pages which have ideas for undergraduates and masters students. The Attributes and Aspirations online short course can also support both career and personal development.

If you are tutoring a student on an MBBS, you and they will have access to the MedLearn careers site which provides good starting points or you can email the medical careers consultant for support.

Information for PhD Supervisors

The Careers Service is happy to support PhD supervisors in anyway needed. Each department has a dedicated careers consultant who works closely with each department's departmental careers adviser (DCA) to ensure bespoke and timely careers support is offered. Alternatively, you can email careers and we will direct you accordingly.

The Careers Service is happy to support PhD supervisors in anyway needed. Each department has a dedicated careers consultant who work closely with each department's departmental careers advisers (DCAs) to ensure bespoke and timely careers support is offered. Alternatively, you can email careers and we will direct you accordingly.

The Careers Service works with the Graduate School to deliver a range of professional progression workshops. These can be accessed at any stage throughout a students PhD and often the earlier the better, especially in topics such as Networking and Career Planning.

To help you support your students, see our career planning webpage, which you can direct them to as a starting point, including the career journey pages with ideas specifically for PhD students. The Attributes and Aspirations online short course can also support both career and personal development.