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How Can I Boost My Career Prospects?

Industry-informed degree programmes coupled with a range of personal and professional development opportunities enrich your university experience and help improve your career prospects.

As a student graduating from Bath Spa University, you’ll leave with much more than a degree in a specific area of study. Throughout your course you’ll acquire and develop a whole range of transferable skills, practical experience and industry insights that will make you highly attractive to employers.

We aim to enhance the employability of all our graduates by ensuring that as a Bath Spa graduate you are well positioned and fully equipped to identify – and set foot on – the right career path for you.

We’ll encourage you to start thinking about making the most of your future right from the start of your university life by accessing the professional support and wide ranging  resources available to you throughout the year – and even after you graduate.

Careers professionals and industry experts work in partnership with lecturers and tutors to help develop key employability skills throughout your degree. They also work closely with employers and other industry partners to maximise both opportunities for students and awareness of our graduates’ talents and achievements.

What Do Bath Spa Graduates Do?

In 2010, 91% of Bath Spa graduates were in employment or further study six months after graduation. The number of Bath Spa graduates known to be in work was the highest recorded for the University, as was the number working in graduate-level jobs. Even in the midst of an economic downturn, graduates successfully entered a diverse range of careers from public sector management roles and graduate schemes to starting their own businesses (particularly in the creative industries) and teaching.

Each of the course pages in this prospectus gives an idea of the sort of careers open to graduates from the course with more information available online.

Excellent Careers Support

Our team of careers professionals is available to guide you in the right direction and suggest ways to help you make informed career decisions. Help with everything from CVs and job search strategies to assessment centres and even module choice is available throughout the year, with a range of one-to-one sessions, small group workshops, mock interviews, presentations and e-guidance options available to give you the right kind of support, how you want it and when you want it.

First to Hear About Industry Opportunities

An array of physical and electronic resources helps you keep up-to-date with news of the latest vacancies, recruitment schemes and other opportunities. Recent developments in specific degree-related and employment sectors are available to you, as are the psychometric assessment tools, as used by major graduate recruiters. Our careers website and regular eBulletin is a rich source of information useful before, during and after your period of study.

Network With Employers

You’ll be introduced to graduate recruiters, local, regional and national employers and business experts through a range of industry events on campus. Through careers events and industry mentors to employer presentations and networking evenings, you’ll have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the likes of the BBC, NHS, Future Publishing, Ordnance Survey, Hilton Hotels and many more, enabling you to find out about the many options open to you when you graduate. With over two-thirds of our graduates gaining employment in the south west of England, we work closely with local and regional employers to source and create the best graduate-level jobs, placements and internships for our students.

Earn While You Learn

Bath Spa University Job Shop is a completely free in-house recruitment service exclusively for students, which helps you find good quality, well-paid, part-time employment (15 hours or less per week) during your time at university. Job Shop staff will help you through the application process and help you realise the invaluable skills you’ll be gaining through these employment opportunities – both on campus and in the Bath area – which will help your future career prospects.

Gain Essential Work Experience

Many subjects have placements or industry projects as part of their degree programmes, which can help you develop a range of skills and experiences to support your career development. Placements and internships are also available on an extra-curricular basis, both during term-time and vacation periods. Our careers and business support teams broker opportunities with businesses in the region, offering a wide range of opportunities for learning in a professional setting.

Work With an Industry Mentor

A growing team of business experts are on hand to work with you as “industry mentors”, providing you with the opportunity to be supported by a trained professional working in a field of your interest including the creative and cultural, health, science and heritage sectors.

Supporting Student Enterprise

Developing Graduate Entrepreneurs

As well as a host of possibilities within your degree to develop creative, innovative and enterprising ideas, many opportunities exist elsewhere at Bath Spa to unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. The University’s Business Plan Competition inspires and rewards excellent new concepts and business start-up proposals from students. “InSparation” is a network offering support, advice and developmental opportunities for enterprising Bath Spa students.

Artswork: A Leader in the Creative Industries

As a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the creative industries, Bath Spa University continues to enrich the student experience across a wide range of creative subjects. Students and recent graduates benefit from industry standard facilities, employer-inspired projects and significant links with the local and regional creative community. After attracting funding of £4.85m, Artswork signalled a major investment in facilities, resources and further professional expertise, the continued development of students as creative professionals and the high-level profiling of the University’s excellence in this area. The University continues to strengthen its position in the creative sector and was recently named as one of only three members in the inaugural University Enterprise Network for the creative industries.