Support for Graduates

Careers Support for our graduates

We are here to help you explore, develop or review a career idea or path, discover what’s important to you and work out your next steps. One-to-one career conversations, with our friendly and professionally qualified Career Consultants, are available remotely (via MS Teams), over the telephone or in-person. We also offer advice and guidance and have a range of resources on a variety of topics including CVs, applications, interviews, further study, entrepreneurship (starting a business or freelancing) and much more!

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One to one career conversations with our Graduate Career Consultant – face to face at Exton Park Campus, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or phone.

• Services and support available include:
• Develop.Me Sessions
• Workplace Experiences - Graduate Internships *
• The Venture Programme *
• The Chester Difference Award *
• Our full range of electronic resources
• Our vacancy search engine on CareerHub

*Where eligible 

Graduate Outcomes (GO) survey: Use your graduate voice

The Graduate Outcomes survey is your chance to tell us what you have been doing since leaving the University, whether this is employment, further study, setting up your own business, or something totally different.  Even if you have come back on a new course we would still like to hear from you. It’s also an opportunity to say how your course prepared you for what you’re doing and for your future career plans. 

You will receive an email roughly 15 months after the end of your course, with a link to complete the survey online.

It’s really important we get as many responses as possible. Your response will help the University and your department to evaluate the course you took, for the benefit of current and future students.  Think back to when you were first applying to university.  You may remember using the DiscoverUni website to help you chose your course.   It’s anonymised data from Graduate Outcomes which is used here.  Completing Graduate Outcomes will help future students make informed decisions, like past graduates will have helped you only a few years ago.

You will initially be emailed a link to the online survey.  If you are unable to be reached by email, you will then be contacted by phone.  However, it’s much quicker and easier doing it online.

If you have new contact details to help us with this, please let us know.  The way to update your details depends whether you are a student or a graduate.

• Students:  Update your details via eVision
• Graduates: Update your details via the Alumni webpage; click 'Update your details' on the right-hand menu 
• Alternatively, email us on graduateoutcomes@chester.ac.uk

To make a difference and to shape the future of higher education, complete your Graduate Outcomes survey at your earliest convenience, once it lands in your inbox. We will let you know when you are due to be surveyed as the time approaches.  If you don’t receive the link when you would be expecting it, let us know via the above email address.  We don’t want you to miss your chance to let us know what you’re doing.

Further information about the Graduate Outcomes survey can be found at www.graduateoutcomes.ac.uk.

NB: Please note that the contact details that you provide may be used for future communications from the University of Chester.

Support from our Development and Alumni Relations Office

The Development and Alumni Relations Office are also here to support you along your journey. More information about the programmes, events and networking opportunities available to you can be found online.