With an excellent employment rate for graduates, our postgraduate diploma combines academic study with practical professional training, including seven weeks of work placement. Teaching staff on the programme are qualified and experienced career advisers and bring additional specialist expertise to the course. You’ll acquire effective interpersonal communication skills for one-to-one career guidance, working with groups and via online media. You’ll learn and put into practice the latest counselling techniques, while developing the necessary research and teamwork skills to carry you into your own successful career. The skills taught are transferable to many other roles in employment, education and training. Former students have gone on to work in education-industry liaison, and projects promoting mentoring or equality and diversity.

If not already employed in a career guidance related role before starting the course, most graduates find work as a career adviser or guidance practitioner. Key employers include Skills Development Scotland, university careers services and community agencies promoting employability for disadvantaged groups. Some students go on to work in the private sector or become self-employed.