Students
Careers and student opportunities
Career focused from the start to shape the future you. Our specialist advisers provide guidance and support for current students, graduates and employers.
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Future You is York St John University’s integrated employability offer.
It is a whole university approach to giving you all you need to develop future aspirations and ideas. At its core, Future You offers work related and career development learning in every course. A range of additional supported opportunities complement this integrated offer, so you can build the skills and confidence to thrive in your career. With our work-related approach, we’ll support you to connect what you learn in your academic studies with real world applications. Depending on your course, this could include field trips, work experience, responding to live briefs with employers, consultancy work, pitching business solutions, or networking with alumni.
Future You can also support with:
- Career planning, now and after you graduate
- Finding part-time work while you study
- Study or work abroad
- Placement years
- Work experience and volunteering opportunities
- Kickstarting a business idea
Whether you're making career decisions, building experience, or connecting with employers, we're here to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
How to access support
You can access careers support, events, opportunities and book appointments through our dedicated careers platform, Handshake.
You can also find out about careers and opportunities support through the Student Hub.
Opportunities for students and graduates
Events and workshops
Get access to graduate employers, placement year businesses and local businesses through our events.
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Student internships
Our student internships can boost your CV and kickstart a potential future career. We offer 2 student internships at specific times of the year: Summer Internship Programme and YSJ On Campus Internship Programme.
Kickstart
The Kickstart Programme is a wide-ranging offer of support to help you develop your entrepreneurial ideas and turn them into viable enterprises.
Graduate careers support
We're here to support your graduate journey. Find out about graduate internships, events, and the Digital Graduate Package.
Become a student ambassador
Current York St John students can join our team of Student Ambassadors, and help to showcase all that the University has to offer to prospective students and visitors to the University.
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Employers and organisations
We are uniquely placed to reach talented students and recent graduates. Tap into our talent and work with students from York St John University.
Find out more about advertising jobs, and offering internships or work placements.
Work with our students
Policies and guidance
DBS checks
Process for current York St John students who require a DBS check while taking part in work experience or volunteering.
Handling of DBS information
Information about secure storage, handling, use, retention and disposal of disclosures and disclosure information in relation to DBS checks.
Graduate attributes
All students will have the opportunity to develop our graduate attributes through their study and student experience.
Our privacy policy
All personal information gathered and held by York St John University relating to its students and graduates is treated with the care and confidentiality required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Bill, the data protection legislation.
The information gathered and held by the Careers, Placements and Student Opportunities team is governed by the Student Data Protection Statement. You can access it on the Data Protection section of our website.
During and after your time at the University there may be other reasons why Careers, Placements and Student Opportunities team needs your personal data, in which case we will tell you what those purposes are and request consent to use your data for these purposes.
