Skills Centre
Drop-ins, courses, online resources and 1:1 tutorials to help you succeed in your studies and beyond.
Employability and Student Success
Enabling all students to fulfil their potential, graduating with the skills, experience and confidence to achieve career success and lifelong employability.
Register now to complete the Bath Award this year
Putting employability at the heart of the student experience
Our Employability Strategy embeds employability and skill development into the student lifecycle. It facilitates access to professional learning for all students and provides a wide portfolio of opportunities for everyone studying at the university.
Our employability experts
We have teams of Employability experts, based centrally within Professional Services and embedded within the Faculties/School, to ensure all students have access to a wide range of employability support and expertise.
Careers
We offer information, advice and guidance to students and graduates. We also work with employers to connect them with our students and recent graduates.
Innovation: For students
Enterprise Bath can help you achieve your entrepreneurial ambitions and support you on your enterprising journey whilst at university.
Improve your employability with a Bath placement
Choose an undergraduate placement degree from Bath to gain valuable work experience and make contacts for your future career.
The Bath Award
Registrations for the Bath Award 2026-27 are now open, enabling you to identify the skills you have acquired during your time at Bath, and empowering you to take action and develop skills that support your success.
Mapping your employability journey
Career planning can feel overwhelming and it helps to break it down into small manageable steps. There are plenty of opportunities here at Bath for you to enhance your skills, gain experience and build your confidence but you may be unsure where to start or what to do. The employability map can help.
Find out more about our Employability Maps
Bath Insights internships
Finding work experience can be a real challenge for students in years one and two as organisations often ask for prior experience and skills they may not have had a chance to develop. Bath Insights gives students in their first or second year the opportunity to gain work experience in a safe, supportive environment through working as an intern in one of a variety of departments on the university campus.
Find out more about the Bath Insights Internship ProgrammeMicro Internships
Micro Internships are short-term, project-based opportunities that connects organisations with Â鶹´«Ã½ students ready to make a difference. If you're an employer who needs insight on a specific challenge, support with a new initiative, or a fresh perspective on your work, a Micro Internship delivers meaningful results in just 35 hours or less.
Find out more about offering Micro Internships
More Employability initiatives
Employability is woven into so much of what we do, here are some more ways you can build your employability and ensure your success while you're a student Bath.
Workplace Essentials workshop series
This series of practical workshops is designed to help you build confidence in the core skills employers value most.
Languages and employability
The importance of language learning in preparation for placements in the UK or abroad.
The Pop-Up Shop Programme
The Pop-Up Shop programme gives entrepreneurial students a £500 loan and the keys to a vacant city-centre shop for 24 hours. Real risk, real profits!
Student success stories
Celebrating the achievements, journeys, and insights of Â鶹´«Ã½ students. Discover real stories, learn from peers, and share your own experiences to grow your network.
I have been a host department for the Bath Insights Internship Programme since its inception and I can highly recommend this initiative.
We asked managers who hosted a Bath Insights intern in summer 2026 whether they would recommend the programme to colleagues. Here's what they said.
I thoroughly recommend the internship programme to colleagues. The ideas, creativity, fresh perspective and dedicated time an intern can bring are invaluable.
For The SU, the single most important thing an intern could bring was the student perspective itself.
When I arrived at Bath for my MSc, I hoped to earn a great degree and gain a few skills. Those skills became one of the most valuable parts of my time here.
This summer, we hosted Natalie, a Physics student, as a Bath Insights Intern within the Careers Service.
Upcoming events
Browse events where you can meet the team and find out more about our work.
The Bath Award drop-in (28 October)
28 Oct 2026 2.00pm
Wessex House
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If you are registered, or thinking about registering, for the Bath Award but need some help, this drop-in is for you.
My Employability Profile drop-in (6 November)
6 Nov 2026 10.00am
Wessex House
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These drop-ins are for any student who has a question about using My Employability Profile.
10 Nov 2026 5.15pm
Online
Explore what makes an email effective, how to write appropriately for different audiences, and how to manage your inbox so it works for you, not against you.
17 Nov 2026 5.15pm
Online
Understand how meetings work, how to contribute confidently, and how to handle common challenges so you can make your voice heard and your time count.
18 Nov 2026 10.30am
Wessex House
2.24,
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Expert support to help you thrive in your studies and future career.
24 Nov 2026 6.30pm
Online
Hear from a mixture of employers and Bath alumni sharing their experiences of how language skills enhanced their careers and opened doors to new opportunities.
Employablity articles
News and articles from across the university and beyond to help you build your employability.
Develop your digital skills with new student drop-ins
Expert support to help you thrive in your studies and future career.
Applications open for winter 2026 Micro Internships
Applications are now open for the latest round of Micro Internships, offering you the opportunity to gain valuable paid work experience while studying.
Kevin Renfrew, Technology Enhanced Learning & Digital Resources Development Officer, explores the skills underneath sustainability.
In order to help get you more comfortable with using Excel, we’ve created the Excel Puzzle Blog series.
Bookings for October 2026 Language Café now open
Enjoy a cup of tea and relaxed conversation while practising your language skills. Select your language and level, then chat, learn, and have fun.
Learning to adapt to this uncertainty is an important part of becoming professionally effective.
About Us
As Director of Employability and Student Success, Helen Stringer heads up Employability at the university. Careers, the Skills Centre, faculty and School placement teams and Enterprise collaborate with colleagues across the institution to deliver a broad range of employability opportunities for students.
Contact us
If you'd like to find out more about Employability and Student Success at the university, please get in touch.