Career events

As a University of Portsmouth student or graduate of the last 5 years, you are eligible to attend the careers and employability events. All of our sessions are designed to help you boost your confidence, motivation, and employment prospects.

Work Experience Festival

Thursday 2 October, 11.00am-2.00pm

Come along and meet volunteering organisations, our placement team, Student Startup and local part-time employers.

Work Experience Festival

Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair

Tuesday 21 October, 11.00am-3.00pm

Explore career options, discover live job and placement opportunities, and chat face-to-face with employers - they're here to meet you.

Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair

Types of career events

Career Skills Sessions

These sessions give you essential tips and advice and run throughout the academic year. The Careers and Employability team will cover topics to help you find part-time jobs, succeed at interviews, search for graduate jobs, improve your CV and much more…

Career Fairs

We organise and support a number of large career fairs each year. These provide a fantastic opportunity for you to meet employers and organisations from a variety of sectors.

Student Startup Events

If you're a budding entrepreneur, we host plenty of events to support you, from inspirational talks from alumni to practical workshops about creating your own business.

How to book events

You can find our upcoming events through your MyCareer account, including our regular sessions, employer and entrepreneur presentations and large recruitment events. You can set up email alerts through your account so you'll be the first to know when new events are listed.

Browse events on MyCareer

Attendance policy

If you're no longer able to attend an event you've registered for, please email careers@port.ac.uk to cancel your booking. Please don't register for an event if you don't intend to come. Our events have limited capacity and by registering and not attending you may take a space from someone else.