Support
Careers Advice
Whether you need help choosing a course, exploring career options or planning your next step, we're here to help.
Careers Guidance
Our qualified Careers Team offers free, impartial and confidential one-to-one careers guidance and career-related group workshops throughout the academic year, helping students plan their education, training and future careers.
The Careers Team and curriculum staff support students with:
- Exploring different career options
- Job-hunting skills, including finding jobs and apprenticeships, writing CVs and cover letters, completing application forms and preparing for interviews
- Finding the right course or combination of courses, including T Levels and Higher Technical Qualifications, to support their career goals
- Progressing into Higher Education, including University Campus Oldham and other universities
- Understanding the funding available for further study, including Higher Education
- Arranging visits to UCAS events, universities and careers fairs, as well as organising on-campus higher education fairs and employer talks.
The team also organises careers events across the College, helping learners and their parents and carers make informed choices about their future.
Learners also have access to an online careers portal, providing up-to-date careers resources and planning tools to help them prepare for their future.
Careers Guidance for University Campus Oldham Students
Our Careers and Graduate Support Team is here to help you plan your next steps, whether that’s starting your career, progressing in your current role or continuing your studies.
You’ll have access to one-to-one careers guidance, CV and application advice, interview preparation, career planning, and support to identify graduate opportunities and progression routes. We’ll help you explore your options and plan your next steps.
Careers support is available while you’re studying and for up to three years after you graduate.
Contact the Careers and Graduate Support Team
Email: vicky.ford@oldham.ac.uk
Contact the Careers Team
Appointments are available Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
Careers Team
Our Careers Service
The College has been awarded the Matrix Standard, a national government-approved quality standard recognising the quality of our careers information, advice and guidance services. This reflects the advice and support we provide to help learners make informed choices about their careers, learning, work and life goals.
Our Careers Team works in line with the eight Gatsby Benchmarks, as outlined in the Government’s statutory careers guidance. This helps ensure all learners benefit from meaningful employer encounters and support with higher education and apprenticeship applications.
We support students to progress into apprenticeships, employment, Further Education and Higher Education, including opportunities at University Campus Oldham and other universities.
Careers Resources
Explore more careers information and resources.
Technical Education
Explore career pathways, technical education routes and progression opportunities to help you make informed decisions about your future.
Labour Market Information
Explore local and national employment trends, discover growing industries and learn about the skills employers are looking for.
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