Career Service
When you are making decisions about your future, but not sure where to start and you need a little help, there is a range of information and support below:
Scotland's Career Service
If you are not yet a student at UHI Perth, then Scotland’s Career Service is there to help you. They have professionally qualified careers advisers, personal advisers and work coaches to support people of all ages, they can help with:
- Personalised career information, advice and guidance
- Advice on the routes into careers including jobs, apprenticeships, training and learning
- Help with CVs, application forms and interviews
- Careers events
- Information on the local labour market
- Access to Scotland’s careers web service, My World of Work
- Redundancy support
- Support for parents and carers
UHI Futures
If you are a student at UHI Perth, then UHI Futures our Career and Employability Centre is there to help you. You can also activate your Handshake account here where you can benefit from:
- Ability to book appointments with the UHI Careers Team
- Exclusive opportunities from employers who want to hire UHI students
- Access virtual and on-campus career events
- Virtual 1-1 chats with employers
- Careers and employability guides and resources
- The opportunity to read employer reviews and connect with peers from across the world
UCAS
After studying at UHI Perth and you want to progress your studies at a University elsewhere then UCAS, the Universities and College Admissions Services is a shared admissions service for higher education. This service allows you to choose up to 5 different courses and/or universities to apply to and will help you throughout the application process:
Once you sign up to the UCAS Hub, you can:
- Use the explore tool – where you can search subjects and discover courses
- The notepad – so you can keep all your thoughts about your next step in one place
- Apprenticeship finder – for the latest vacancies, locally and nationally
- The personal statement builder – to help you structure your writing and introduce yourself to universities
- The Tariff Calculator – for tallying up your UCAS points to see if you meet entry requirements
UCAS also has lots of other information to get you prepared for university life with their study skills guides and accommodation advice, along with their mental health and wellbeing resources to help you at every stage. They’ve even got inspiration and tips if you’re thinking of taking a gap year.
PlanIt Plus
PlanIt Plus is also a good website where you can search for:
- a career where further information is shared on:
- an introduction to this career
- examples of work-related tasks that you might do
- examples of pay rates
- examples of what to expect (e.g. office based, hours of work, engagement and collaboration)
- workforce employment status (e.g. full-time, part-time, self-employed)
- how you can quality for this career
- what does it take, you need to be good at…
- what does it take, you should have…
- and much more
- a course where further information is shared on:
- what colleges and/or universities offer this course/qualification
- if you click on a specific college or university, the following can be shared
- course content
- entry requirements
- related job profiles
- a modern apprenticeship
- a graduate apprenticeship where you will:
- work, earn and learn – you’ll be employed by a company
- study for part of your week at university
- get an Ordinary or Master's degree
- combine work and study for 2 to 5 years
