Careers and Employability

The Careers Team can provide you with impartial advice and guidance to support your career goals, explore your options and help you plan your next steps. 

Richmond College Careers Programme and Policy

You can access our HRUC Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) Policy here

You can access the Richmond upon Thames College Careers Programme here

For present and future students

• Interviews with a qualified careers advisor
• Information and advice about courses and apprenticeships
• Specialist careers advice for people in or leaving care, or who have an Education Health Care Plan
• A drop-in advice service
• Help with CV writing, job-searching and applying
• Information and advice about progression to the next course with us or elsewhere
• University applications help, events and visits
• Tutorials.

For parents

• The opportunity to meet a qualified careers adviser and discuss their child’s next steps and opportunities
• Impartial advice on UCAS and student finance.

Please click here to view the Funding Higher Education 2025/2026 guide for parents/guardians and students which provides details on the support available for students considering HE.

The Careers Centre has a wide variety of resources and our friendly Careers Advisers are available for drop-in enquiries and personal appointments.

Current students can book appointments with a Careers Adviser in the Careers Centre or via Reception.

• Useful resources for planning ahead

  • Careers Information for parents - Talking Futures
  • Careers information – National Careers Service
  • Apprenticeship information – Rate My Apprenticeship
  • Applying to university - UCAS
  • Career ideas and information for your future from iCould
  • Discover your perfect career! Take our quiz to find careers matching your interests and courses to help you get there

• Labour Market information

  You can search a subject below to see what others have gone on to study at university and eventually gone on to do as a career – simply click the refresh buttons!

   

• Find out more about different job sectors

  Click on the different job sectors below to find out more about them. 

   

• Gatsby Benchmark

  Richmond upon Thames College is committed to the Gatsby Benchmarks for good careers guidance as follows:

  • A stable Careers Programme
  • Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • Addressing the needs of individual students
  • Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers
  • Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • Personal Guidance.

  HRUC (Harrow, Richmond and Uxbridge Colleges) uses the Gatsby Benchmarks as a guide to plan our Careers Programme. Find out more about the Gatsby Benchmark here.

  As part of our commitment to informing our students of the full range of learning and training pathways on offer to them, we are happy to consider requests from training, apprenticeship and vocational education providers to speak to students.

  In the first instance, requests by providers should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All requests will be considered on the basis of staffing availability to support the activity, avoiding clashes with other planned activities, or rooming and space availability to host the activity.

• Contact Careers

  Please contact Olivia Wait, Careers Service Team Leader: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.