Careers Advice and Guidance

At City and Islington College, we offer an impartial careers advice and guidance service via drop-ins, booked appointments, telephone and email. Our dedicated, friendly and helpful team are members of the Institute of Career Guidance, and give you comprehensive and up-to-date careers information.

We have a yearly plan of careers and employability activities so that you can get the most from your time at CANDI. The services and activities are planned to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks of good careers guidance and we also take your feedback on services to continuously improve our service to you.

We can help you if you are:

Unsure or confused about your career or course choices
At risk of leaving your course early
Worried that you will not succeed on your course
Unsure whether you are on the right course
Confused about your future choices and opportunities

Find out more on how our careers service helped A Level student, Lale Hanalp gain new skills and boost her prospects in our article here.

WHAT WE OFFER…

Impartial careers advice
We offer individual advice about your specific career options and next steps

Careers information
We can talk to you about university, apprenticeships, other training routes and how to apply (including UCAS, CUKAS, GTTR and PA), as well as giving you access to online databases such as Kudos, Adult Directions and Exodus

Employability skills
We help you learn transferrable and industry-specific skills for the workplace, as well as how to create job applications that will make you stand out

Opportunities to network
We run workshops, events, one-to-one meetings, through your course or by connecting with you directly

Work experience
We also support many work experience placements at CANDI, from finding you a placement and preparing you before you go, to supporting you on the placement and helping you identify the skills you’re gaining along the way

Each year we run Higher Education fairs, as well as other events throughout the year supported by employers, universities, and other organisations.

We advise teaching staff on developing careers education and planning activities in their courses to help enhance employability and confidence with career planning. We also actively source and advertise mentoring schemes to support disadvantaged students seeking progression into employment, training or education.

Our careers lead is Philippa Cooke, philippa.cooke@candi.ac.uk, 0207 520 7360