As a Cambridge graduate, you can continue to use the Careers Service to help you build your career. We appreciate that many of you may be facing uncertainties about your future career plans in light of COVID-19 and we are here to work with you, offering professional guidance and advice.
For further details of eligibility and levels of access, please see here
For graduates
- Join Handshake to access all our online resources to help you from thinking through career ideas to helping you through the recruitment process, including CV and cover letters, application forms, job interview advice, and psychometric tests
- Connect with our events and presentations
- Talk to alumni for advice
- Talk to a Careers Consultant - we may be able to offer you a suitable appointment
- If you graduated this year, you can help us to support future graduates by completing the Early Destinations Survey https://cam.joinhandshake.co.uk/login
Career changers
Please use our online resources to help you think through career strategy ideas or plans for a career change.
You may find it helpful to activate your Handshake account and access our job vacancies and employer information.
Please note that we are not able to offer:
- Extended career counselling or coaching
- Advice on mid-career progression in the same field, given that our expertise lies in supporting current students and recent graduates
Alumni - keep in touch and help us provide a great service
15 months after completing your course you'll be asked to complete the Graduate Outcomes survey, so that we can gather your views. Please keep your contact information up to date.
Your experience can also help current students:
- Share your interview or job experience feedback on Handshake
- Use Handshake to offer advice and guidance about your career path and experiences to current students and recent graduates, in the 'Students' section.
- Speak at a panel talk. Panels across a wide range of careers are key elements of our programme of careers events. Alumni speakers discuss and give insights about their profession. If you would like to do this please get in touch with us.
- Post, or encourage your organisation to post, internships, vacation work placements and graduate jobs on Handshake.
With LinkedIn, you can connect with more than 200,000 Cambridge University alumni.
Alumni Groups
Cambridge University Alumni are eligible to join any of more than 430 volunteer-led Alumni Groups around the world.