About the OU Careers Advisory Service

The OU Careers Advisory Service provides professional careers and education advisers to support your OU study choices and career planning.

You can contact us for advice on

• planning, developing or changing your career
• deciding what type of work would best suit you
• completing application forms, CVs or covering letters
• preparing for an interview
• looking for employment
• getting involved in voluntary work
• considering further study or professional training
• changing your OU study plans.

Services

• Careers consultations
• Publications
• Forums Note: use your OU computer username and password to access the Forums.
• Employer Showcase Note: use your OU computer username and password to access the Employer Showcase.
• Online vacancies Note: use your OU computer username and password to access the Online vacancies.
• Employers

Please note: If you are an OU student based overseas studying full time through one of our partner organisations and not assigned to a regional or national centre, you will not be able to contact a Careers Adviser by email from this website. Our partners provide certain services directly to students. Please contact your partner organisation for further information.

Statement of service

You can view the Careers Service Statement of Service under Our statements of service on the OU website.

Matrix accreditation

The OU Careers Advisory Service is accredited against the national matrix quality standard for the provision of information, advice and guidance services through our Regional Student Services and Student Registration & Enquiry Service. Specialist careers advisers are professionally qualified.

We are always interested to hear your comments and suggestions about our services; feel free to contact us with your feedback.

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