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Student Futures: Empowering Your Career Journey

Student Futures is dedicated to guiding you through every step of your personal and professional journey. From exploring your aspirations to connecting you to career opportunities, we ensure you gain the skills, experiences, and confidence needed to achieve your career goals.

The majority of students aren’t 100% sure what there plan is and that’s absolutely fine. We will help you discover your values, strengths, and goals through tailored coaching and workshops, crafting a personal development plan to set you on the path to success. As you progress, we connect you with part-time roles, internships, volunteering opportunities and placements enabling you to gain valuable experience, develop professional skills, and reflect on your growth. By your final year, we focus on helping you leverage your experiences by building your personal brand, preparing compelling CVs and applications, and establishing networks to confidently enter the job market equipped with clarity and purpose.

Want to speak to us? Drop us an email at studentfutures@northampton.ac.uk or come and see us in Student Futures on the ground floor of the Learning Hub at Waterside Campus. Find out more about our teams and what they do below.

Northampton Employment Promise

Achieve your ambitions

Careers and Employability Service

Career support for students

Placements and work-based learning

Practical learning opportunities

Unitemps

Student jobs

Enterprise Launchpad

Grow a business idea

Mentoring

Connecting students with professionals

Alumni

Discover our graduate community

Employer Engagement

Engage with our students

Student stories

Real student experiences

What does Student Futures do?

  • Through our in-house recruitment agency Unitemps, you can gain work experience whilst earning to support you through your studies – this includes being a career coach and/or a student ambassador.

    Alongside our Unitemps team, we have specialist staff to help and support you to secure the right next experience for you. This could be a summer placement, some volunteering, setting up your own business, talking to a mentor, a year long placement, exploring freelance work or considering further study options at UON. Whatever is next, we are here to help!

  • At UON we have our Student Futures Framework. This helps to give clarity and structure to students as they balance academic work with personal growth. The framework supports you to capture your strengths, plans and skills in your early phases at UON. We will connect you with employers in a multitude of ways to ensure you can gain a variety of different experiences and gain and strong understanding of employer needs.

  • Student Futures provides the following career coaching to students and to our graduates – you can access these services for your whole life after graduation!

    One-to-one careers coaching with our trained and highly skilled coaches including help with career decision making, how to develop your employability and how to gain work experience.

    • Drop-ins for your quick queries
    • Help and information on finding a part-time job
    • Online resources and access to our Student Futures Portal
    • Advice and information on volunteering
    • Advice, information and guidance on getting jobs, placements and internships

  • We provide our students with a variety of events to enhance their university experience, from pop-ups to careers fairs.

    No event is bigger than the Student Futures Careers Expo.

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