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Careers support for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds
Career planning can be tricky. We know some students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds can also face specific challenges.
These may include:
- Exploring career ideas when you don’t know what’s out there;
- Getting quality work experience with fewer existing networks; or
- Having time to dedicate to career planning alongside other commitments.
At the Careers Service, we provide dedicated support to address these challenges:
Bristol Mentors
The Bristol Mentors scheme matches you with an alumni mentor. They can help you explore ideas, share advice, and give you an edge to break into the job sector that interests you.
Applications typically open in the Spring term – check your university emails.
The social mobility superstars breaking barriers
The Student Social Mobility Awards (SSMAs), organised by upReach, celebrate the achievements of undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds from across the UK.
The SSMAs recognise students who have excelled in their studies and beyond, and have demonstrated great resilience, determination or initiative, or boosted their employability in innovative ways.
Filipe Costa Figueiredo is a 4th year joint Honours Politics and Spanish BA and has been shortlisted for two awards:
- Undergraduate Awards: Academic Success for those who have achieved the most impressive academic feats whilst at university, breaking through barriers in the process
- Undergraduate Sector Award: Professional Services and Consulting which recognised outstanding achievement in specific career sectors while at University.
We chatted to Filipe (pictured below) about why he thinks he was nominated and why social mobility is important.
(more…)Extra careers support for LGBTQ+ students
At the Careers Service we know LGBTQ+ students can face additional challenges to career thinking. This may include facing discrimination in recruitment practices, and identifying inclusive and supportive workplaces.
To help level the playing field, we’ve compiled the best support and opportunities into one handy document over on mycareer.
We also send out live opportunities in our weekly Flying Start bulletin. Sign up to Flying Start now!
Here’s a taster of the support on offer…
Mentoring & Employability Events
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Give yourself a Flying Start this spring
This Spring your Careers Service is offering an extra suite of support for widening participation students, which includes:
- BAME students
- Disabled students
- Mature students
- Students who attended an aspiring school
- Students who grew up in a low income household.
We know widening participation students face additional barriers to career thinking. This may include exploring career ideas when you don’t know what’s out there, getting quality work experience with less developed networks, and facing discrimination in recruitment practices. That’s why we’ve put together a dedicated programme of support this Spring to get you career ready: