Skills for Success

During your time at University you will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills. While a good honours degree will set you on the path to graduate-level employment it is only one element of your graduate profile. To ensure that you are successful after graduation you will need to provide evidence of what we call employability skills (e.g. teamwork, initiative, communication and problem solving skills). To help you develop your employability skills there are a number of opportunities available to you across campus. Further information about Skills for Success is available from the Careers Centre website. 

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Careers Services


Health and Safety for Placement Students

This course is compulsory for all students going on a Placement Year.  To complete the module, view the short videos and then complete the quiz in Section 15.

Design Thinking For Life

Frontrunners Supervisors

PGR Toolkit

PGT Toolkit

The Placement Preparation Programme

Preparing for my Placement Year

Skills @ Essex

Final Year, Future Focused

Final Year Focus support package by Student Development (2020)

Securing My Postgraduate Professional Placement

Welcome to your search for a Professional Placement! 

On this page you will find a section relating to your course. In there will be the important information you need to prepare yourself for your search.

If you have any queries, please contact placements@essex.ac.uk 

Your Employability Audit

To complete your employability audit you will need to enter one of the enrolment keys below.  Find the key that matches your department at the University of Essex, enter it into the enrolment key box (at the bottom of the page) and click Enrol me. 

Biological Sciences (bs)

CCFEA (fe)

Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (cp)

CISH (ih)

CSEE (cs)

East 15 (ea)

Economics (ec)

Essex Business School (be)

Government (gv)

Health & Human Sciences (hh)

History (hs)

Human Rights (hr)

International Academy (ia)

ISER (is)

Language & Linguistics (ll)

Law (lw)

LiFTS (lt)

Mathematical Sciences (ms)

Other (ot)

Philosophy and Art History (pa)

Psychology (ps)

Sociology (sc)

Any problems - please email us at careers@essex.ac.uk