At the RAU, your future career is at the heart of everything we do.

Our dedicated Enterprise and Employability Team is here to support you from your application and first weeks on campus through to three years after you graduate. We help you understand your strengths, explore career options, and make the most of the skills, experiences, and qualifications you’ll gain during your degree.

We work closely with industry partners to ensure you graduate confident, capable, and career-ready. Alongside personalised guidance, you’ll have access to a wide range of employability activities designed to build your professional identity and help you stand out in a competitive job market.

We inspire the RAU Graduate to have a professional approach, sustainable mindset, be an innovative thinker and technically skilled, as well as sharing the RAU Values

Throughout a students’ course and via extra curricula enterprise and employability activities, we embed and encourage the RAU Graduate attributes, which are to:

  • Have a Professional Approach; to be reflective, self-aware team members with excellent communication skills approaching new challenges with flexibility and confidence
  • Have a Sustainable Mindset; to commit to environmental sustainability and regeneration, demonstrating an understanding of global complexity and systems thinking.
  • Be an Innovative Thinker; to have commercial acumen and curiosity, seeking innovative solutions to the real world.
  • Be Technically Skilled; to enter the workplace as technically and digitally skilled practitioners who value practical knowledge and scientific evidence.

As well as sharing the RAU Values which are;

  • Collaborative
  • Open-Minded
  • Resourceful
  • Responsible
  • Inclusive

RAU graduates are regularly recruited by some of the world’s leading organisations.

The University offers fantastic career and employment opportunities. This can be attributed in part to the strong industry links we maintain. Potential employers are encouraged to engage as guest speakers, hosts for trips and visits, as well as joining us for our Career Fairs and being placement providers. This ensures that our students receive up-to-date knowledge whilst making valuable contacts with industry employers.

Our courses incorporate a placement element of varying length from 70 hours to a full year, enabling students to gain vital experience of the workplace and become familiar with all stages of the recruitment process.

An extra advantage for our graduates is the support of our alumni. A powerful network of over 14,000 former students positioned across the globe, they are always keen to help graduates achieve career success.

A comprehensive careers advice service ensures that a consistently high number of RAU graduates go on to enjoy success in their specialist area of study, and make a significant contribution to a wide range of professions internationally.

Careers support includes:

  • One-to-one guidance (in person or online) with our professionally trained Advisers
  • Access to a wide range of job vacancies via the University’s job portal, including placements, graduate roles and part-time work
  • An email careers service offering advice on specific queries and a CV checking service
  • Skills training sessions focusing on CV writing, LinkedIn profile preparing and interview skills
  • Support in applying for and securing a work placement
  • Annual Careers Fairs, panel events and other employer-led presentations open to all students

It is never too early to start thinking about where you want your course to take you. So make sure you speak to your personal tutor at the beginning of the year to start building your career plan. 

Contact us

For further information about the Careers Services available to students, please contact a member of the Careers Team. Email: careers@rau.ac.uk.

Student jobs portal

Our Jobs Portal provides current students with a jobs board for casual, part-time, graduate, volunteering and placement opportunities. We are constantly updating our portal, to ensure our students have access to the latest opportunities.

Available to current RAU students, please click to access through Gateway (Student Job Search). For any queries, please contact the Careers team on careers@rau.ac.uk.

Employers: advertise a vacancy to our students

The Careers Service at the Royal Agricultural University is always keen to have contact with potential graduate and/or placement employers, and other organisations who can support our students in their employability journey. We can help you make contact with our students, graduates, academic staff and management.

For any queries, please contact the Careers team on careers@rau.ac.uk.

Our range of services for employers includes:

  • Advertising vacancies for graduates, placements, part time or casual jobs, vacation work and volunteering opportunities; please forward job details including start date, how to apply and a closing date for applications if available plus your company logo if you would like us to use one
  • Opportunities to make presentations to students and courses
  • Attending one of our annual Graduate Careers Fairs (subject to places available)
  • Opportunities to involve students in project work or to research an issue to the potential benefit of both employer and student

Please contact

The Careers Service, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6JS student.jobs@rau.ac.uk.