Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton

Employability is about more than just getting a job – we believe in helping our students gain the necessary experience for a future career, along with the skills to identify opportunities and make the most of them.

At Southampton you will have the opportunity to broaden your options by meeting employers, getting involved in volunteering activities, work placements and much more.

The University’s Career Destinations service offers a wide range of services and support to students at all stages of their university life, and for up to three years after graduation, including:

• support in gaining work experience and exploring future career options
• an extensive vacancy database of part-time and temporary jobs as well as permanent posts for graduates
• opportunities to attend talks and workshops on a host of topics including interview techniques and CV writing, many led by leading employers
• access to five high-profile careers fairs which attract over 150 local, national and international graduate recruiters
• a comprehensive careers library and careers advice website to support all your career planning activities

For more information visit the Career Destinations website.

Highly skilled technology graduates are in huge demand by the world’s leading companies, and ECS graduates have an excellent reputation for the breadth and depth of their technical knowledge, as well as for the strong mix of practical and theoretical understanding gained in their degree programmes.

We have one of the best records for graduate employability among UK universities. We run our own Careers and Employability initiative in ECS, working closely with a wide range of partner companies and supported in our activities by ECS graduates who provide support for mentoring programmes, as well as valuable careers advice. Our aim is to ensure that not only are our students fully aware of the choices and opportunities open to them in their graduate careers, but also that they are also fully prepared for the application and interview process, and that they have every opportunity to achieve their full potential.

Graduate jobs are advertised on our Careers Hub. We run our own annual Careers Fair in February each year, and we support a full programme of employer visits to ECS, including recruitment presentations and workshops.

The majority of our graduates will enter business or industry as engineers, consultants, analysts, or developers across the communications and media industry, transport, energy, security, online retailing, gaming, banking and finance, and in future technology development and global manufacturing.

Our courses, our project work, and the vitality of our ECS community are instrumental to our students’ success in gaining excellent graduate positions.