Services for students and graduates

Career Development Centre can help you whether you are looking for your first graduate job, a work placement, part-time/casual work or going on to further study. It's never too early to make a start and Westminster students can use our services free of charge for up to 3 years after graduating.

Our Statement of Service provides details of our service provision.

Quick links to our services - scroll down for information on each:

• Job Search

• Guidance Interviews

• Quick Query Sessions

• Careers Information Rooms

• Careers Workshops and Employer Events

• National Mentoring Scheme

• Psychometric Testing

• Prospects Planner 

• E-guidance

• Additional Careers Guidance and Services from Prospects.ac.uk

• Prospects Graduate newsletter

 Downloadable PDF guides:

• Finding an internship
• Finding part-time work
• Finding work in the creative sector
• Looking for work after graduating

• You can access the Career Development Centre Vacancy System. Here you will find vacancies for Part-time/Vacation jobs, Student Placements and Finalist Vacancies as well as booking a place on forthcoming events and activities.

• You can book a 45 minute Careers Guidance Interview with a Careers Consultant to discuss any career related topics or have a mock interview. 

• You can attend our Quick Query Sessions and speak to a Careers Consultant for 20 minutes. You can either book your session via the Vacancy system or contact us on the day you wish to have a session.  

• You can visit one of our Careers Information Rooms for information and take away material on types of work, employers, further study plus employer vacancies. Computer access is also available. 

• You can attend a Careers Workshop or Employer Event to develop your career management and job seeking skills or to meet potential employers. 

• If you are a current undergraduate home student of Black British, African, Caribbean and Asian descent you can participate in the National Mentoring Scheme, supported by Career Development Centre, which will link you with a professional manager to gain support and experience over a 6 month period.

• Online Psychometric testing with emailed feedback is available through our licence with My Potential.

• You can access careers matching software to find out what jobs might suit you through MyPotential (type dynamics indicator test), Prospects Planner 

• If you are a part-time student we offer an e-guidance service whereby you can submit careers queries or CVs and applications that you would like checking. A Careers Consultant will respond to questions by email or telephone

In addition to the services offered by Career Development Centre, the Prospects website  offers a comprehensive service for students and graduates.  This includes wide ranging careers information, a moderated chatroom where you can talk to graduate employers and postgraduate study experts and email advice. You can also view the Prospects Graduate, the online magazine that contains graduate job vacancies, postgraduate courses and career news and advice from Prospects.