“Alone we can do little, but together we achieve much”
Inspiring words from Ntombizodwa Makuyana (Tombi), Lucy student and winner of the 2021 LucEnt Challenge
Thinking about your future career can be daunting. To help you approach the subject, step-by-step, 'Journeys’ has been created on the careers platform Handshake, specifically for Lucy students.
You can maximise the career support available to you by completing the Journey. Your Journey provides you with tailored career activities to complete to ensure you’re ready for the year ahead.
A guide, specifically for Lucy Cavendish students, can be found here.
We have a range of activities, events and appointments available to Lucy Cavendish students in the coming term to help you build your career readiness. Many of the Academic Skills sessions also address the transferable skills employers are seeking.
In Michaelmas Term 2023 you can sign up for on the College Calendar -
Lucy Leaders - Abel Ureta-Vidal | Friday 19 January | 18:00 – 19:00 |
1:1 Careers Appointments | Thursday 25 January | 18:00 – 21:00 |
Career Stories - STEM Academic Careers | Monday 29 January | 17:45 – 19:30 |
LucEnt Coaching Session | Friday 2 February | 13:00 – 15:00 |
'Presenting Yourself to Employers' Panel | Monday 5 February | 17:30 – 18:30 |
Intro to Careers | Tuesday 6 February | 12:00 – 12:30 |
LucEnt Coaching Session | Friday 9 February | 13:00 – 15:00 |
LucEnt Challenge and Female Founders Prize Application Deadline | Monday 19 February | 09:00 |
TTP Insight Scheme Information Evening | Monday 12 February | 18:00 – 19:00 |
Careers Pop-Up | Tuesday 13 February | 12:00 – 14:00 |
1:1 Careers Appointments | Tuesday 13 February | 18:00 – 21:00 |
LucEnt Coaching Session | Friday 16 February | 13:00 – 15:00 |
1:1 Careers Appointments | Tuesday 19 February | 18:30 – 21:00 |
LucEnt Challenge Weekend | Friday 8 March - Sunday 10 March | |
Female Founders Prize Competition | Pitches in the Cafe on Sunday 10 March |
As part of the career support available to you at Lucy Cavendish, you have access to the University Careers Service whose team of experienced and impartial careers consultants are here to support you throughout your studies at Cambridge and beyond.
The Careers Service offers plenty to help you take the next step: one-to-one guidance consultations; 14 major careers events each year; an extensive programme of briefings and skill sessions; coordinated employer presentations, and a database of graduate-level job vacancies in Handshake, our careers platform.
We wanted to share with you our Michaelmas programme of careers fairs, events, skills sessions and more! These are the only official University events of their kind this year, so don't miss out. Next term we'll have even more fairs and events covering an even wider range of sectors, such as creative careers and not-for-profits.
Explore our main fairs below (registration opens a week before each fair at 9am) and click the button at the end to see our full programme of events. We suggest you check this regularly as new events are added all the time!
Sign up is easy if you haven’t done so already, you'll just need to login with Handshake, which also gives you access to exclusive vacancies, Career Consultant appointments, and our new career newsletters, which you can sign up for here. We're going to stop sending regular updates out based on your profile interests, so sign up for in depth information!
There are both in-person and online fairs this year to give you flexibility, read more about the benefits of attending both here.
For an introduction on how the University Careers Service can help you, whereever you are in your career readiness journey, take a look at their introduction below:
Inspiring words from Ntombizodwa Makuyana (Tombi), Lucy student and winner of the 2021 LucEnt Challenge
Bruno Cotta talks about Cambridge’s recipe for innovation success: science, skills, space, capital and networks
Lucy Cavendish College collaborates with Cambridge JBS to nurture present and future entrepreneurs