Employability
From their first term, our students get an insight into the type of careers available, what might work for them, where they would like to be headed and how they can get there. We strongly encourage experience outside the School of Law in order for students to become familiar with the professional workplace and to improve their employability skills.
Opportunities include (see Pro Bono for further detailed information):
- Citizens Advice Bureau: students train and work as CAB volunteers;
- Resolve: dispute resolution training gives student a National Open College Network qualification;
- Streetlaw: students help local school pupils engage with legal topics;
- Death Penalty Project: students volunteer with a national death penalty charity during their final year.
- Employability Week: this takes place each summer so that students can meet with recruiters from diverse sectors to find out exactly what employers are seeking. Local firms host workshops on networking and interviewing and invite students for a day-in-the life look at work after university.
You will discover that studying Law at the University of Reading will equip you with the following highly transferable skills:
- Critical analysis
- Intellectual independence
- Ability to absorb and synthesise complex material
- Understand contemporary social issues
- Written and oral presentation of objective argument
- Independent research
- Team-work
Most of our students enter graduate-level careers or go on to further study (including vocational study either for the LPC or the BVC). Prospective careers might include:
Solicitor/ Barrister/ Teacher (Primary, Secondary or Further Education)/ Police Force/ Accountancy/ Insurance/ Banking/ Film and Media/ Journalism/ Civil Service (Fast track)/ Human Resources
A selection of well known employers with whom our students have found graduate employment opportunities include:
Deloittes/ Price Waterhouse Cooper/ Treasury Solicitor's Office/ IBM/ Vodafone/ Rolls Royce/ HRMC/ Sainsbury's.
