King's Careers & Employability

We're celebrating our King's Parliamentary Research Interns and the incredible work they have done this year with a Celebration in Parliament today!   Each doctoral researcher has been working with a member of the House of Lords on research, policy and bridging knowledge between their PhD and the world of policy.   Thank you to our interns for all their brilliant work, our Peers who trust us to engage in the programme with them and to our partners at The Policy Institute who make this programme happen!

We're looking for the next individual to lead our domestic Employer Relations and Labour Market Insights development here at King's. This critical role in our Employer Engagement function is soon to be available so if you believe you have the expertise, connections, leadership experience and interest in ensuring King's remains a top-ranked institution amongst the broadest range of key employers, do take a look. The post is forms part of our Employer Engagement management structure, developing outputs for the entire institution.

We are recruiting for two roles in our Careers Education function, one fixed term and one new post in our central team dedicated to The Dickson Poon School of Law. This is a rewarding opportunity for candidates looking to work with students, researchers and graduates to develop their career management skills. This could be through in person or online workshops, one to one coaching appointments or designing digital resources. You’ll work with home and international clients studying the full range of academic subjects.  The ability to proactively build excellent stakeholder relationships across King’s and beyond is key. You’ll be skilled at building rapport with a wide range of people and wish to utilise your excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills to deliver a high-quality service. For further information, review full adverts for each role or speak with Vanessa Freeman or Robin Stevens. - Careers Consultant (fixed term maternity cover): https://lnkd.in/ekXcwEen - Careers Consultant (The Dickson Poon School of Law): https://lnkd.in/eZ_RqXRw Deadline: 24 June 2026 #JobOpportunity #Recruiting #CareersEducation #CareersConsultant #BuildingSuccess #KingsCareers

King's has won Graduate Initiative of the Year at inaugural UK-China Business Awards for work supporting Chinese students! 🎉 Recognising the need to support students in an increasingly competitive graduate job market, this award celebrates institutions which have gone the extra mile to support student employability skills, expanding access to opportunities and supporting graduates in achieving sustainable career success. Congratulations to our King's Employer Engagement teams who have developed and led this work, specifically Employer Relations & Development Manager, Phil Hardcastle and Associate Director Andrew Wright. We will be back in China this August for another year of our fairs across four major cities, and our next cohort of offer holders and students are embarking on our Insights: China experiential learning project right now! #KingsCareers #BuildingSuccess #AwardWinning #CareersInChina #KingsInChina

We are thrilled to receive FOUR nominations for this year's Graduate Futures Institute Awards - or the 'GRAFTAs' as they are known! 🎉 King's is nominated in the: - Inclusivity and Opportunity Award, sponsored by Practera - Student Partnership Award - Sustainable Careers Award - Careers and Employability Professional, sponsored by Gradcore for Jan Orlebar (FHEA) We are delighted to have such a range of projects and individuals represented and look forward to the Awards in July to celebrate the success of projects across the UK and Ireland! #KingsCareers #BuildingSuccess #Awards #Shortlisted #GRAFTAs

We're hiring for a Global Placements Adviser in the King's Business School and King’s Employer Engagement teams here. Details in the post below or at https://lnkd.in/eyeFu5Gw #JobOpportunity #Recruiting #BuildingSuccess #KingsCareers Andrew Wright Eleanor Hannan Markus Stretz Rachel Tonner

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 14/05/26 BST King's CareerConnect is back online at the present time. We appreciate your patience whilst our suppliers investigated a widespread outage.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 14/05/26 08:00 BST Due to an unforeseen issue, King's CareerConnect is currently offline and our students, researchers, alumni, staff and employers will not be able to access the system. Our suppliers are investigating the issue and we hope it can be resolved shortly. We will keep users informed via our social media channels over the coming hours.

Did you know that the Graduate Outcomes survey is the UK’s biggest annual social survey? This year we'll survey over 970,000 graduates from the class of 24/25! If you completed a higher education course between November 2024 and January 2025 you’ve been sent the survey via email and text – you've just over 1 month left to complete it!

Congratulations to all the students who were finalists at today's targetjobs UK #UGradOfTheYear26 Awards in Canary Wharf! We're incredibly proud of the 11 King's College London finalists who represented the University and more importantly themselves today and it was wonderful to meet many of them. A special congratulations to King's Social Science & Public Policy Economics student Alexandra Bykova who was named Multilingual Undergraduate of the Year, in a category sponsored by Bloomberg. https://lnkd.in/exsn6U-e Congratulations Alex! 🎉 #UGOTY26 Group GTI