Newman University Careers Service is part of the wider Student Support team. We offer all students a unique, personalised careers experience and provide an impartial, friendly, and flexible service for careers education, information, advice and guidance, covering careers and employability activities.

The Careers Service have a variety of staff providing high-quality careers education, information, advice and guidance and play a key role, working with staff and departments across the institution to enhance your employability, help you make informed careers choices and to support you in gaining employment or a place on a postgraduate course.

We provide a variety of services and activities that you can get involved in during your time at Newman University and beyond.

Watch our helpful video below, where Careers Manager, Melissa, talks in more detail about the Student Support available to our students:

Newman University Careers Service is based in the Careers and Employability Hub in the Barberi building.

We offer a flexible service providing a range of appointments, workshops and activities during the core hours of 10am until 4pm, but also offer some designated early morning, evening and Saturday access.

Our resources are available 24/7. Staff members are happy to answer any questions via email or in person in the Careers and Employability Hub.

My Career is your personal online careers portal and is the first place to go in order to access the service.

To access a personalised Careers Service at Newman University during your course, you must sign up to and agree to the conditions of My Career: https://mycareer.newman.ac.uk

My Career enables you to have a designated careers area to manage your careers development whilst at university and after graduation. You can:

• Book on to and manage careers appointments.
• Access your guidance session notes.
• Book on to and manage workshops and events.
• Sign up to receive targeted emails and news.
• Access the Newman University jobs board for part-time work, work placements, voluntary positions and graduate jobs, with the option to sign up to receive email alerts for relevant opportunities you may be interested in.
• Complete awards.

If you are a first-time user, you will need to set your personal profile before using the system. If you have used it before but wish to change or alter your details you can go through the same process. Please spend some time filling this out as it will really make a difference to your experience and the information you receive.

You can email the Careers Service (careers@newman.ac.uk) with any questions you might have.

Online Meetings

Live careers chats on Teams for any new student who wants to pop along, find out about the service and ask any questions.

The dates and times are below.

Friday 25th August – 12-1

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Friday 8th September – 12-1

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The Careers service will be doing an induction shout-out to every subject area (particularly at level 4) to introduce the service at the beginning of semester 1.