Fairs and Flagship Events

We run a conference style event each year dedicated to the PhD community. It aims to showcase the wide range of career opportunities outside of academia that are open to PhD graduates, encouraging them to think broadly about their options.

Discover Careers is the biggest and highest profile event of the year where you will meet talented students from all disciplines and year groups. Use it to raise awareness and promote any career related opportunities, from insights to part time work, internships and graduate roles or placements.

The Careers in Law Fair is designed to connect organisations with legal career opportunities in Scotland, UK and/or international legal jurisdictions with talented University of Edinburgh LLB Law students/graduates as well as students studying other disciplines who are interested in legal careers.

The Careers in Engineering Fair is a chance to meet motivated students from our world class School of Engineering, to raise your profile and promote your graduate, placement, internship roles.

Each year we run Careers in Sustainability to provide insight, inspiration and advice for students and graduates who want their career to contribute to a sustainable future.

Each year we run Careers for Social Good to shine a light on a variety of third sector and public sector careers with social impact, providing insight, inspiration and advice for students and graduates.

Our Meet Employers in Life Sciences event will help you raise your profile and promote your graduate positions, internships and other paid opportunities that can come under the “Life Sciences" banner.

We run a campaign of events each year to help raise awareness of careers paths in the creative & cultural industries. The aim is to provide insight and inspiration and facilitate direct engagement between students and industry representatives who can provide information and advice on careers in their sector.