A new centre dedicated to helping students plan their careers and find work will launch at Sheffield Hallam University, providing students and graduates with careers workshops and employer-led networking sessions.
Chief executive of Gripple, Hugh Facey, will officially open Sheffield Hallam’s new Careers and Employability Centre on Thursday 6 March as part of National Careers Week. The event will give students the chance to network with a range of employers the University works with, which include Morrisons, IBM, Nestlé and Network Rail.
In 2013 Sheffield Hallam came first in the Student Barometer Survey for employability and first for the quality of its careers advice from academic staff. The University also employs a large number of students – 1629 students were recruited last year into a variety of roles, including events assistant, laboratory assistant and photographer.
59 per cent of Sheffield Hallam students study on courses with a work based learning opportunity (10 points higher than the sector average) and last year 89 per cent of Sheffield Hallam students either entered work or went onto further study.
For more information: visit the Media Centre at www.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/careers-and-employability-centre-opens