Lucy Cavendish students have access to personalised career support, mentorship and guidance.
Time as a student at Cambridge goes really quickly, and it’s never too early to prepare for your future career. Our students become leaders in every sector and in countries around the world, and many follow their research interests and passions when they graduate.
At Lucy Cavendish, students are encouraged to develop their career readiness, whatever their future career may be. We offer events, workshops, library resources and 1:1 appointments which give space for reflection, exploring and planning next steps. This is complementary to the comprehensive offering from the University Careers Service and is run in close collaboration with the team there.
Lucy’s recent graduate says, “My 1:1 career session enabled me to re-assess my current skills and consider opportunities that I felt were outside of my remit. With an outside perspective, the career advisor presented many available options to me that aligned with my experience and guided me through the CV and application building tools that are available on the website. I ended the meeting feeling a lot more confident and despite these unprecedented times, I'm thrilled to say that I'm now using my skills in my job.”
We also run an innovative enterprising programme. Cambridge is recognised around the world as a unique environment for translating ideas, inventions and discoveries from all disciplines into new products, services or solutions. The College welcomes all students who are passionate about spotting, seizing and seeing through opportunities to make an economic or social impact beyond their education or research with us.
The Lucy Enterprise programme runs throughout the academic year and is supported by our Fellows, alumni and other friends of the College. Students are invited to join a series of events including a launch in Michaelmas term, a competition in Lent term and a celebration in Easter term. Now in its third year, the LucEnt Challenge invites them to collaborate with each other (and their peers in other Cambridge Colleges) and compete in multidisciplinary teams, to identify an enterprising solution to a problem relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Enrichment Programmes Manager, Rachael Burcher, says: "Through the generosity of sponsors and donors to our Enrichment Programmes, students at Lucy Cavendish can get involved in workshops, mentoring, visits and presentations in College that help them evaluate and develop transferable and career-readiness skills. We also work with colleagues across the University and beyond to ensure our students are signposted to, and can benefit from, the wide-ranging resources available to them beyond the College in Cambridge."