Students
Already a student in LUMS?
Find details of everything that's going on – and a range of online resources to help you in planning your career.
Employers
- Looking to recruit?
- Take on a placement student?
- Commission a consulting project?
- Run a promotional event on campus?
We can help with all this and more – and we work with organisations of all sizes and in all sectors.
See our Information for Employers for details of what we can offer, and who to contact.
Staff
The LUMS Careers Team work with academic staff and departments to ensure our students are well informed about the career opportunities that are available to them and have the necessary information to succeed in the highly competitive graduate labour market.
Please contact Louise Briggs to explore the range of services we are able to offer.
Where do graduates go?
Our graduates join organisations of all sizes, all around the world.
To see what some of them are doing now, and how their time at Lancaster helped them in their career, see our graduate profiles – browsable by course.
Welcome to LUMS Careers
Our award winning careers team based at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) provide a dedicated and innovative careers service for students, graduate employers and support academic colleagues.
We look forward to working with you.
Louise Briggs, Head of Careers, Alumni & Employer Relations
Our webpages will explain more about the range of services we offer and how to meet the LUMS Careers Team
Finding out about placements
Gaining relevant work experience while you are a university student is crucial to achieving the top graduate jobs. This work experience can take varied forms including placements, internships and voluntary work, and there is a lot of competition for these valued roles. As a LUMS student you can access a wide range of support to help you succeed.
News
The Guardian: 'Top 10 things employers are looking for'
26 April 2013
Professor Cary Cooper helps decode the buzzwords used in job adverts in this article in the Guardian.
The Telegraph: 'How to find a graduate job using social media'
25 April 2013
Writing for The Telegraph, LUMS postgraduate careers advisor Ajaz Hussain gives tips on how to use Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media to find the perfect graduate job.
Rise in graduate employment at LUMS
22 April 2013
More LUMS graduates than ever before are gaining graduates jobs despite the recession. Latest figures show that 83% of last year's graduates were in graduate employment or postgraduate study, a rise of 5% on the previous year.
Students show their flair at the 2013 Red Rose Business Weekend
26 March 2013
Students from across the University came head to head last month at Lancaster University Management School in the annual Red Rose Business Weekend, impressing the judges from IBM and Saatchi & Saatchi with the quality and ingenuity of their ideas.Events
This term we have over 100+ careers events across LUMS with local and international recruiters for you to attend . To help you plan, launch and achieve your desired career goals and book your place on one of our LUMS Careers events, click here.
For details of all career-related events, employer presentations and skills workshops, see our brochure.
What's On
- Women@IBM - An informal networking session with drinks and nibbles.
Wed 22 May 2013 - Lancaster University Careers Seminar - Athens, Greece
Mon 27 May 2013 - The Graduate Recruitment Fair - University of Manchester
Wed 12 Jun 2013 - LUMS Work Experience Fair
Tue 15 Oct 2013 - The Finance Business & Management Fair - Manchester Central
Thu 17 Oct 2013
