The Careers Department
Helen Collins
Careers and Employability Manager
Georgia Ferguson
Employability and Skills Development Manager
Anna Dickinson
Careers Advisor
Explore Careers
Retrain for a new Career
Our Careers Department will provide you with impartial advice and guidance at every stage of your academic journey, enabling you to make and carry out effective career decisions. The team support students with career planning, higher education applications, interview skills, job searches, finding apprenticeships, volunteering opportunities, gap year planning, and CV writing, through one to one guidance, group workshops, and online resources. They organise key annual events including the Careers Fair, Higher Education Day, and Higher Education Parents’ Evening. The team regularly invite motivational industry speakers into college from a wide range of industries and universities, arrange external visits, and help students to find work experience placements. They create a series of careers tutorials for every year group at Notre Dame, to support their progression and career planning. The team’s Careers Programme is available on the college website, highlighting how their work to support students meets the Gatsby Benchmarks.
The Careers department can help you with:
- Career planning
- Assessing your skills, aptitudes and interests
- Exploring your future options such as apprenticeships, further education, higher education and employment
- Mock interviews
- Annual careers fair
- CV and job searching
- Volunteering
- Work experience
- Gap year research
- Workshops and guest speakers
- Resources
- Summer schools
CAREERS RESOURCES
WORK EXPERIENCE AND VOLUNTEERING
Work experience, and or Volunteering is not only valuable in its own right but also essential if students hope to apply to certain university courses (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, Teaching, Veterinary Science etc.). All students are encouraged to complete in person work experience alongside some virtual during their time at College. This can be completed during holiday time. There are certain vocational subjects where work placements are compulsory, and these will be highlighted to students at various points such as open events, enrolment, and induction. Opportunities for Work Experience and Volunteering are available on the Careers SharePoint page and updated regularly.
CONTACT US
For current students appointments are available at 10am – 2pm Monday to Friday. Students are also available to drop in at anytime, a member of staff will be available for quick queries. The Careers Department is based in the Main Building, next to the refectory and the stairs to the Chapel. Students or parents are more than welcome to contact the careers department at any time throughout the year.
The Careers Team are available online to support you with your future. You can email us with any questions or queries you may have. We will send you a tailored email responding to your enquiry. No question is too big, or too small. We are also happy to proof-read any CVs, applications or cover letters you may be putting together.
Do make use of the resources on the Careers Sharepoint which we will be updating regularly.
T: 0113 2946644 EXT 183
E: careers@notredamecoll.ac.uk
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