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Future Talent

Employers & Recruiters

Connect through events
Connect through study
Connect through services
Raise your profile
Mentoring
The Lancaster Award

Why Lancaster?

Top 10

Top 10 in all 3 major UK league tables:
6th in The Times 2019; 7th in The Guardian 2020; 7th in The Complete University Guide 2020

Diverse

90% of our UK undergraduates are from state schools, and 37% are of the first generation in their families entering higher education.

Academic

Gold ranking in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, with a High Entry Tariff – courses published to attract applicants who achieve A*AA - ABB.

Why employers choose Lancaster University

“Lancaster is a truly inclusive university with graduates from a wide range of backgrounds, bringing highly skilled & innovative young people into our company"

- Freya Stuehmeier, Talents Manager, Danone.

Download our brochure and find out more about how we can work with you.

Future Talent Employer Guide

News & Events

News
Lancaster student wins Undergraduate of the Year Award

Lancaster student wins Undergraduate of the Year Award

Tom Moran won the TARGETjobs LGBTQ+ Undergraduate of the Year Award 2019.
Event
Autumn Careers Fair

Autumn Careers Fair

Bookings for our flagship event are now open!
Event
'Just in Time' Fair

'Just in Time' Fair

Perfect for snapping up students still looking for graduate roles.
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Specialist Fairs

Specialist Fairs

Find out more about our Law Fair, Science & Technology Fair, and Management School Fairs.
Future Talent Brochure

Future Talent Brochure

Our Future Talent guide has all the information you need to connect with our students and engage with us.
Pledge for Lancaster Excellence

Pledge for Lancaster Excellence

Pledge an 'experience' at your firm for one of our top Lancaster Award students to take part in.

Connect through Events

Event

Meet our students face-to-face

Come and meet our students face to face by exhibiting at one of our many careers fairs including our flagship Autumn Fair, Science and Technology Fair and Management & Business Fairs.

Other ways to engage include delivering employer presenations, skills sessions, drop-ins or webinars.

For more information and to book please email futuretalent@lancaster.ac.uk

Connect through Events

Connect through Study

Connect through study

Faculties & Departments

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 opportutnity to offer students placements, internships and work experience or be part of the curriculum. 

Connect through Study

Connect through Services

Recruit your Future Talent

Recruit your Future Talent

Advertise your vacancy for free

We offer a free and simple self-service vacancy listing option on our job board TARGETconnect. 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 commercial not-for-profit on-campus recruitment agency. This service can help you  to attract, and recruit your future talent, for casual adhoc temporary contracts or discreet 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. 

 

Advertise your vacancy

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

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.

Mentoring

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 Officer

The Lancaster Award

Pledge for Lancaster Excellence

The Lancaster Award, developed in partnership with employers, rewards students for taking part in extracurricular activities. This could include volunteering, work experience or attending careers workshops, each time acquiring new skills and experiences valued by employers. For more information about the award, please click here.

The highest achieving Lancaster Award students are nominated for the Lancaster Excellence Awards. To reward their achievement, we invite employers to pledge an 'experience' in their organisation, for example a mentoring meeting with a senior leader, work shadowing or a behind the scenes insight experience of a dynamic and high profile industry.

Do you have something interesting to share as a rewarding 'money can't buy' experience?

Find out more
The Lancaster Award

Meet the Employer Engagement Team

Tara McLaughlin

Head of Employer Engagement

Nuala Lewis

Employer Engagement Manager

Angela Bywater

Employer Engagement & Events Officer

Claire Lawrenson

Career Mentoring Officer

To connect through our services, events, study and to raise your profile email or telephone 01524 510750/592485.

Contact the team