Your career and job opportunities

Careers and Employability Service

Here at Middlesex, we help you to develop the skills and graduate competencies required within the world of work. Our courses are career-focused and our award-winning Employability team, MDXworks, provides a range of opportunities and services to support your career development.

You'll have unlimited access to personalised careers and employability support to build your confidence, skills and experience, and your chances of achieving your graduate career goals.

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As a Middlesex student, you will benefit from a wide range of careers and employability support, including:

• 1:1 Appointments with Faculty Employability Advisers offering sector-specific information, advice and guidance
• Work experience, placements, and paid part-time opportunities through our Middlesex Unitemps Branch and Industry Partners
• Embedded curriculum workshops within specific programmes of study, taken from a progressive library of career-related learning topics
• Find your dream job, network with employers and alumni and access career service support via our online platform, Handshake
• CV and application feedback
• Mock interview assistance, including via our Shortlist.Me platform
• Access to careers fairs, networking opportunities, and other events
• A unique menu of co-curricular initiatives, including a start-up accelerator programme, mentoring opportunities, and a summer emerging professional programme.

Connecting you with employers

We make the most of our business links to put you in the room with top employers and get you closer to your dream career. Plus we'll make sure that you have the skills to tell them why they should hire you. Employers that we work with include PwC, Sky, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon, Microsoft, KPMG, GSK, Civil Service, Harper Collins, and Enterprise Rent a Car, just to mention a few.

Opportunities to engage with our employer partners include:

• Gradstock Festival - our biggest annual event, with a live careers fair, employer talks, panel discussions and workshops led by industry leaders, work opportunities and much more
• CareerConnect - an annual one-day event offering students and graduates opportunities to engage with external organisations and university alumni to secure work-related activities
• In-curriculum and beyond - we prioritise integrating employer engagement into the curriculum through initiatives that focus on guest talks, project-based experiences, experiential learning, and other activities.

Placements, Internships and Employer-led Projects

We can help you secure an internship or placement during your studies. The placement options that are available to you will depend on the course you study however, these can include year-long placements, short-term internships, intensive one-week roles and community placements run by our Students' Union.

We also established a continuously growing network of over 70 local and national SME industry collaborations, connecting Middlesex students directly with real clients, allowing you to apply and enhance your key skills in a tangible, real-world context. Moreover, we offer a diverse set of opportunities internally, where teams of students are frequently offered chances to collaborate with different departments, offering a well-rounded and immersive learning experience and preparing you for the dynamic challenges of the professional world.