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CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICES TO STAFF & COMMUNITY

The careers and employability office assists faculties, and departments throughout the year in a number of ways:
  • Delivering Careers and Employability talks to groups of students on topics such as how to make the most of the Careers and Employability Services, how to research and reach decisions about future Careers and Employability, how to recognise and develop knowledge based, skill based, and transferable skills, how to secure a job without jeopardising degree class, how to start a business etc. These talks are highly relevant and tailored to the course being studied.
  • Provide information on what alumni say about the university, where they are, what they are doing 15 month after graduation. The data is derived from the Graduate Outcomes survey conducted by the Careers and Employability Office.
  • Partner with local authorities to tackle youth unemployment, with employers, recruiting organinsations/bodies, funders, and investors to support students projects, businesses, innovations, internship placements, skills development, and post university employment
  • Connect the University student societies to get in touch with recruiting organisations which might be willing to offer sponsorship, give brief presentations, or arrange visits.
  • Offer related literature, advice, and presence and support at any University-organised Careers and Employability-related event.
  • Give advice and an opinion on the efficacy or legitimacy of any third-party commercial provider approaching the University offering careers and Employability advice, CV/application writing, entrepreneurship and startups, innovation and employability services etc., or a “we shall connect your students to work with reputable organisations and companies” scheme.
  • Recommend short foundational courses for employability like Design Thinking for Innovation, Digital marketing and communication, Financial Sustainability, Ethics, Culture, and Global Perspective to unlock more opportunities for the students, and gain hands-on experience. All these can be taken on courser and seminars organised for students to discuss different workplace ethical dilemmas, practice of design thinking, etc.
  • Encourage community service for all students of Cavendish. The services are meant to develop practical employability skills, and decision making while serving the community.
  • Organise trainings and seminars for the University lecturers on how to integrate employability, and entrepreneurial skills in their teaching and learning processes, discuss the current recruitment market, major issues facing our students and share best practice.
How to Help the Careers and Employability Office
  • Many commercial, profit-making recruitment agencies target Cavendish University students with sometimes over-inflated claims of the help they can offer our students. If you are approached by these agencies please refer them to us. We find it useful to know their activities before we engage with them.
  • Organise a meet session where the Careers and Employability Office listen to student’s concerns, ambitions for the future and to be made aware of any developments in teaching and learning. Our services are constantly developing to meet student needs; Students may be unaware of what we currently offer.
  • The Careers and Employability Office is tasked by the University to collect information on what the students were doing 15 months after graduating -whether further study or employment. This data is derived from the Graduate Outcomes Survey. You can help by encouraging students to share their new addresses to employability@cavendish.ac.ug
  • Please forward to the Careers and Employability Officer – bochan@cavendish.ac.ug any comments or observations on the work we do, students we have helped (or failed to help) and any suggestions on improving our service.
  • If you know a student who, for whatever reason, requires our help please encourage them to come and see us. However, there may be exceptional circumstances where you want to refer a student directly to us. With their prior permission, please let the Careers and Employability Officer know of these special circumstances and we will help ensure they are seen sympathetically, by the most appropriately experienced person and quickly, if the matter is urgent.


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