The UCL Careers Service
The UCL Careers Service is UCL's dedicated Careers Service and part of The Careers Group, University of London, the largest in the country. They provide a range of services for recruiters.
Advertising positions to our students
The UCL Careers Service provides services for employers to advertise vacancies. In particular, short descriptions of vacancies can be placed automatically on the JobOnline facility. Our students are aware of JobOnline and search it for current positions available.
Employers can also advertise using the department's Careers Bulletin Board. Please email adverts in either plain text or PDF format to the Departmental Careers Tutor, Nicolas Gold with 'job advert' in the subject line. We normally like to include the following information:
- Name of employer
- Place of work (address)
- Full time or Part time
- Permanent or fixed term (if fixed term, please state for how long)
- Hours of work
- Job description
- Person description
- Salary or salary range
- Contact details for anyone who is interested in the position
It is best to write a proper job advert covering these points rather than just answering them as bullet points since your advert will be directly forwarded onto the bulletin board. The students like to know how much they will earn so it is best to give a range rather than just stating 'negotiable' - although this range can be as broad as you like and 'depending on experience'. The Jobstats web site can be used to obtain information about competitive salary rates for different IT jobs.
Key Partners
Graduates from UCL are keenly sought by the world's leading organisations and many progress in their careers to secure senior and influential positions. Where key industrial partners have contributed to the teaching and/or research of the Department we believe that they should benefit from enhanced access to our students for recruitment purposes.
We would be happy to support the following:
- Special company presentations, where the company sends representatives to talk to the students and explain career progression within their organisation
- Corporate advertising on notice boards and our careers web site, and also our Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn groups
- Suggestions for ways for an organisation to raise its profile amongst the students through the judicious use of internships, industrial projects, bursaries and/or prizes
- Advertising of job opportunities via an internal careers opportunities web page
The UCL-CS Careers Service is organised and run by the Computer Science Careers Tutor Dr David Clark. He acts as a key facilitator for organisations who wish to improve their visibility and profile within UCL-CS and who are looking to attract the best CS graduates. If you wish to discuss how careers partnership with UCL-CS would work for your organisation, how you could contribute to our teaching and/or research, and what graduate recruitment benefits would accrue, then please contact Nicolas Gold.
Pertinent information about our students for employers
- Our students are particularly encouraged to undertake summer internships to gain valuable work experience for future employment. The students are available during the Summer vacation which runs from approximately June to September each year.
- Precise information about term time dates can be found here.
- Weekly timetables for our students can be found here.
- None of our courses are currently 'sandwich' courses, hence year long internships are generally not available to our students.
- Our students have exams in May. The students are very busy with academic studies during and before these exam periods.
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