National Careers Week

At Essex we know that employability is an important factor for students in deciding their future, and their Higher Education choices. Next year, we will be offering activities in a few ways to help you and your students make the most of National Careers Week 2025.

Education Fair

As part of National Careers Week 2024, we hosted an Education Fair at our Colchester Campus allowing students to find out what it's like to work in education, how to get into the sector and meet employers. This fair also gave students an insight into other opportunities and careers that they may not have realised existed that could help them to develop their transferable skills or be inspired to take a career path they had not considered!

More information about our 2025 National Careers Week activities will be available soon.

Supporting your careers fair at your school or college

The Essex Team welcome invitations to support your school careers fair, we are happy to come to talk to your students about the opportunities offered by university study and how a degree can help them reach their future career goal. To invite us to your next Careers Fair please complete our online form

Schools and colleges are encouraged to request bespoke careers and employability sessions by emailing schools-link@essex.ac.uk.

Study Abroad and Placement Opportunities

Many of our undergraduate courses offer the opportunity to study overseas or add a placement year.

During your year abroad you will have the opportunity to experience other cultures and languages. You will be able to broaden your degree academically and socially and demonstrate to employers that you are adaptable and organised. Read about Nadia’s year abroad in Italy.

On a placement year you will gain relevant work experience with an external business or organisation allowing you to develop your skills, giving you a competitive edge in the global job market. Read about Karolina’s placement with Greater Anglia.

Entrepreneurs and start-ups

Essex Start-ups offers wide range of training, support and funding opportunities to our community of budding entrepreneurs. Whether you already have a business idea or are simply interested in the possibility of working for yourself in the future, we can provide the guidance and support to help make your dreams a reality. Our team are on hand to offer free one to one business advice sessions and practical information to help develop ideas and structure your start-up to help you succeed.

Read our start-up stories here!

Bespoke talks with our academic departments

Delivered by our enthusiastic academics, our taster sessions are designed to give your students a flavour of studying a subject at undergraduate level and incorporate careers and employability within the field of study. Workshops are available across all three of our faculties and can be delivered as part of a campus visit or virtually via Zoom or Microsoft Teams to your classrooms.

To arrange a bespoke talk with one of our academic departments please get in touch by emailing schools-link@essex.ac.uk

Bespoke campus visits

Explore our Colchester campus and our facilities for a bespoke campus visit. Your visit can include a range of talks delivered to your students including Employability and Support at Essex and academic careers talks, such as 'A career in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies' or 'A career in Sports, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences.' Get in touch to book your campus visit!

Essex Careers Services

Our careers service offers students a wealth of support to jump-start their career. We include career-focused modules across all our degrees and provide mentoring opportunities for all students, as well as hosting events and industry network building sessions.