Why employers choose Lancaster University
Top employers explain why they choose to attract talented Lancaster University students as their Future Talent.
Future Talent
Lancaster is a truly inclusive university with graduates from a wide range of backgrounds, bringing highly skilled & innovative young people into our company.
Connect through events, study, and services
Connect with our students at events
Engage with our students by exhibiting at one of our many careers events including our flagship Autumn Fair, Law Fair and virtual Career Sector Panel events.
Other ways to engage, both on campus in-person or virtually, include delivering employer presentations, skills sessions, or drop-ins. For more information and to book please email futuretalent@lancaster.ac.uk
Connect through events
Connect with our Faculties
Connect with our students and academic colleagues within our 4 faculties of Arts & Social Sciences, Management School, Science & Technology and Health & Medicine. Employers have the opportunity to offer students placements, internships and work experience or be part of the curriculum.
Connect through study
Connect with our services to recruit your Future Talent
Advertise your vacancy for free
We offer a free and simple self-service vacancy listing option on our job board CareersConnect. Register your details on our Job Board and once approved you will have direct access to our job board to upload and manage your vacancy listings.
Use our on-campus recruitment agency
We offer a fully managed on-campus recruitment agency. This service can help you to attract, and recruit your future talent, for casual ad-hoc temporary contracts or discrete project-based contracts. We can support payroll services, candidate screening, or a full end to end recruitment service.
Targeted Communications
We capture information about our students' career goals and interests which means we can target very specific groups of students with key messages that are relevant to them. We can support you to engage with particular student groups, for example through targeted emails based on course, faculty, year of study, or occupational interest.
Connect through ServicesNews and Events
Raise your profile
We work closely with you to raise your profile on campus and assist you in securing applications from our talented students.
Communicate your messages
- Link with our Students’ Union and connect with any of our 200 different societies
- Advertise through social media, campus plasma screens, printed literature, or sponsorship of campus events, societies or sports clubs
- Work with academic departments, including guest lectures and sponsorship of academic prizes
- Engage with students in competitions or challenges, such as Hackathons.
Mentoring
Lancaster students are amongst the best future talent in the UK and are nurtured through an extensive employability support programme, reflected in their outstanding graduate prospects once they leave.
Dedicated careers professionals create personalised career plans that encourage students to engage in employability skills workshops, employer presentations, valuable work experience and placements, and connect with alumni through initiatives like our Mentoring Programme.
Career Mentoring Programme
Our mentoring programme matches professionals (mentors) with Lancaster University students (mentees). It provides a wonderful opportunity for mentees to gain ‘real-world’ insights, but also for mentors to share their wisdom.The goal of the mentoring programme is to give both mentors and mentees the chance to help one another enhance their professional development in areas such as leadership and communication. We’re always looking for employers who are interested in mentoring one of our students to help them launch their career.
Contact Claire - our Career Mentoring OfficerMeet the Employer Engagement Team
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Tara McLaughlin
Head of Employer Engagement
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Nuala Lewis
Employer Engagement Manager
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Angela Bywater
Employer Engagement & Events Officer
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Claire Lawrenson
Career Mentoring Officer
