Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Careers Advisory Service

Career Management Skills

Students should be encouraged at an early stage in their academic career to think about their own skills, interests and values and also the range of career opportunities available to them.

We can run workshops and seminars to help them to plan ahead, develop the skills and experience they require to market themselves effectively and manage their own career development.

Employability Skills

At HWU the following core skills have been identified as important to the future employability of students: Communication; Teamworking & Leadership; Problem Solving; Scholarship, and Professionalism.

The Careers Service works in partnership with EDU and Schools to ensure these skills are embedded as learning opportunities throughout the curriculum.

Work Related Learning

Many employers prefer, or even demand, that students have some form of work related learning preferably in the relevant industry sector to which they are applying. This can take a variety of forms including: sandwich/summer placements; job shadowing; visits to/from companies; industrially based projects; business simulations.

The Careers Service works to connect academic staff with key personnel from all areas of industry and commerce.

PDP@HWU

Professional Development Planning involves a cycle of recording, reflecting, planning and implementing personal, academic and career development. It provides students with a mechanism by which to review and articulate their goals and plan to acquire the relevant learning and skills to achieve them.

The Careers Service can provide support for PDP through providing materials, advice and delivery of PDP sessions to students.

Graduate Destinations Survey

Along with other universities in the UK, Heriot-Watt is required to return data each year to the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) on the destination of every student achieving a higher education qualification within six months of graduation. It is the responsibility of the Careers Advisory Service to organise the collection of the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education (DLHE) data and to collate the results on behalf of the University.

Graduate Destinations: Summary Charts

You can view recent Heriot-Watt graduate destination summary charts by School here.
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Graduate Destinations: Detailed Reports

You can view recent Heriot-Watt graduate destination reports here.
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