Services for students  

Careers and placement appointments 

We’re operating daily 1-1 careers and placement appointments. All appointments are delivered remotely, meaning you can access them wherever you are. In these appointments we can discuss any careers related topics you’re currently thinking about, including:

• discussing job options with your degree, even if you are not sure what you want to do yet 
• get feedback on your CV or an application that you are making 
• looking for remote internships 
• getting started with LinkedIn, or improving your current profile 
• preparing for in-person or remote assessment centres and interviews 
• all placements related questions. 

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Workshops and Events 

Our central events programme runs as usual, with all events converted into webinars. We will be taking an event break in between the spring and summer terms. Our summer term programme will be back, as per usual, right after Easter.  

Students with disabilities 

Please speak to us if you have questions and would like support with anything careers, jobs or application related. Our team are at hand to help you explore reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes. You can either email careers@reading.ac.uk, call central Careers on 0118 378 8359 or email Careers Consultant Emma Butler who leads on our support for students with disabilities: e.l.butler@reading.ac.uk 

Career Engagement Programmes 

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP), Reading Internship Scheme (RIS), Reading Employability Development (RED) Award and Thrive support 

We are currently working on adapting our careers programmes to our new remote ways of working and will share updates on these shortly. In the meantime, please contact these colleagues for questions: 

UROP – Tom McCann on urop@reading.ac.uk

Red Award – Tom McCann on red@reading.ac.uk

Thrive – Natasha Bindra on mentoring@reading.ac.uk

Reading Internship Scheme – Holly Forsyth on  h.forsyth@reading.ac.uk  or 07976608048 

Services for Alumni 

Graduate support will continue as usual. You can book remote appointments, have general queries answered or find out more about Graduate Coaching by emailing Lisa Holmes on l.holmes@reading.ac.uk. You can book onto upcoming webinars here. Additionally, you can call the Graduate Hotline every Monday evening from 6-9pm on 07989213973. For all information on Graduate support, visit our alumni page.

Services for Employers 

We have a full set of employer engagement services available for engaging students remotely.

See our full list of remote services

Services for Academic staff and Academic Tutors 

Careers are here to support you with:

• placement queries 
• delivering employability initiatives remotely 
• embedding employability in the curriculum 
• helping you develop your tutee’s employability 
• data on your students’ careers engagement and your DLHE and Graduate Outcomes data 
• helping you support students with disabilities, and students from a widening participation background 

Please contact careers@reading.ac.uk or placements@reading.ac.uk and we make sure the most appropriate member of staff comes back. Please also feel free to give us a call – all our phone numbers are switched to reach us in our remote working locations.  

Suggestions, compliments and complaints  

Please share any of these with us by contacting Director of Careers and Employability, Dr Andrea Kreideweiss. Email: a.kreideweiss@reading.ac.uk, telephone: 0118 378 8350  

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