Heriot-Watt Staff
The Careers Advisory Service aims to assist Heriot-Watt University students and graduates make informed career choices. We do this by offering them opportunities to develop skills and gain experiences which will enable them to manage their future career development and achieve their goals.
To help Schools implement the university's Employability Strategy, the Careers Service will work in partnership with academic staff and values opportunities to integrate careers activities within the academic curriculum.
Contact Nick Thow, Head of the Careers Service, or the careers adviser for your School to discuss our services and how we can support careers provision within your school.
What we can offer
Labour Market Information
Useful links to access up to date information on the current graduate labour market.
Latest graduate destinations summary for Heriot-Watt: Summary Report
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Detailed reports on Heriot-Watt graduate destinations by School.
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.
Professional Development Planning
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.
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.
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.
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