The College Careers Team is here to provide you with impartial advice and guidance to support your career goals and aspirations, explore your options and help you plan your next steps before, during and after you complete your course. Support and guidance is completely impartial and can be done through 1-2-1 in person and online talks and group presentations and workshops.

Careers Contact

Kiran Rami - Assistant Director for School Engagement and Student Services: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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

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

You can read more about our careers programme by clicking here.

Current students can book appointments with a Careers Adviser via Reception.

• 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 & Labour Market Information

  • Addressing the needs of individual students

  • Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers

  • Encounters with Employers & Employees

  • Personal Guidance. HCUC (Harrow College & Uxbridge College) uses the Gatsby Benchmarks as a guide to plan our Careers Programme.

  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 activity, or rooming and space availability to host the activity.

• Useful resources for planning ahead

  • Careers Information for parents – Parental GuidanceCareers Information for parents – Parental Guidance
  • Careers information – National Careers ServiceCareers information – National Careers Service
  • Apprenticeship information – Rate My ApprenticeshipApprenticeship information – Rate My Apprenticeship
  • Applying to university - UCASApplying to university - UCAS
  • Career Quiz – Icould BuzzquizCareer Quiz – Icould Buzzquiz
  • Richmond College Careers ProgrammeRichmond College Careers Programme

• Labour Market Infomation

  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!

• Contact Careers

  Please Contact Kiran Rami: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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