Careers Summer Updates
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Davinia Bascombe | Careers Consultant
Careers Summer Updates
22/06/2026
Welcome to Summer
Summer has well and truly landed and while you make the most of these warm months, be sure to keep (or start) reaching out to Careers for a top-up of 1:1 employability support - my door is open (particularly useful given the heat).
Trimester 3 Workshops
June and July bring continued in-class Careers support across selected modules and programmes including Level 3 Computing (Professional Development in Computing), Level 4 Business and Marketing (Introduction to Business) and Level 5 Psychology (Essential Issues in Psychology, History and Individual Differences and Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology). These workshops are designed to enhance subject content within your modules and keep your focus on career development sharp throughout studies. Remember - there are so many employability skills you're already using each time you participate in an activity without knowing it, so make the most of this opportunity.
Competing in a Tough Market
As I'm sure you've heard many times before, AI is making a massive impact on the types of roles available and emerging roles specifically those roles created since AI became an everyday feature of our lives. This, however, doesn't have to impact your career planning. The 'human touch' or rather people-focused skills still takes priority. Reflect upon how (and if) you as undergraduates have started taking those steps to research what's happening right now and may happen in industries connected to your degree.
Compare the Market
The World Economic Forum's 'Future of Jobs Report 2025' - https://reports.weforum. org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_Report_2025.pdf is a good place to start doing that all important research. This may sound familiar as I've mentioned it in previous newsletters and continue to use it myself to stay current on what's happening within industries.
The report is rather lengthy, but page 37 'Skills on the rise, 2025-2030' and page 39 'Top 10 industries for increasing skill requirements, 2025-2030' are particularly relevant as you – undergraduates and graduates-to-be have access to not only current and emerging employability skills, but top industries ranking them according to importance.
Moving in the Right Direction
Hopefully, there isn't too much to process here; actively preparing for your career needn't be concerning, it should simply be a process that you review continuously and thoughtfully ensuring you finish your studies with confidence and insight into the workplace.