Work and skills training
The Careers Service portal, CareerConnect, lists vacancies for volunteering, work experience, internships and graduate opportunities. You can complete your profile to receive targeted emails about jobs, events and employers.
Many Oxford students undertake short-term work experience placements during their long vacations to try out different careers and gain valuable skills and experience. Oxford Student Consultancy provides employability skills training and work-based experiences to students, along with free and professional consultancy services to local businesses, charities and community organisations.
The Oxford University International Internship Programme provides summer work opportunities and experiences: from publishing in Vancouver, teaching in China, exploring Alabama, to fast-moving entrepreneurial environments in India.
Working while studying
An Oxford education provides a fantastic platform for the future. Our students go on to achieve outstanding things in all walks of life, all over the world. Employers value very highly the analytical skills, sound judgment and capacity for original thinking that are honed here at the University. The Careers Service provides all students with a range of high-value career-focused services, programmes and activities with the aim of bringing recruiters and job-seekers together.
CareerConnect, the login section of the Careers Service website, lists hundreds of vacancies for volunteering, work experience, internships and graduate opportunities. You can complete your profile to receive targeted emails about jobs, events and employers. Many Oxford students undertake short-term work experience placements during their long vacations to try out different careers and gain valuable skills and experience.