Get career ready
RealWORKS is your careers and employability service. You can access career support and advice from RealWORKS from day one of your studies, right through to graduation and beyond.
You'll have access to thousands of tools, resources and e-learning to help you realise your potential and secure your career. Build your CV, take practice interviews using AI technology, access weekly workshops and specialist events, find employment opportunities, develop your business idea or take the steps to going freelance. Whatever you need, start with RealWORKS.
How to access RealWORKS
Just log in to RealWORKS using your university username and password, set up your profile and start exploring.
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Looking to gain real-world experience alongside your studies?
Our RealWORKS Micro-Internships offer you a unique working experience. You'll get the opportunity to apply to a paid internship that'll develop your professional skills over a period of 2-6 weeks. You'll complete 30 paid hours over that period and learn a host of industry skills.
Who are Micro-Internships for?
The scheme is open to all current Falmouth University students and we particularly welcome applications from underrepresented Falmouth students who are keen to develop their career readiness.
Our 'doing it for real' approach means that students leave Falmouth with an entrepreneurial spirit and creative flair. We produce future-proofed graduates who excel both as employers and employees. Our graduate community is bustling with complex problem solvers and multi-disciplinary team players. Shaped through partnering with industry, Falmouth students and graduates are original and courageous thinkers, who feed the future of industry, not its past.
We work with local, national and global partners, including strong connections in the local Cornish economy, to ensure the best opportunities are available to our students and graduates. If you're an employer looking to connect with Falmouth you can see the opportunities available below.
The ESF placement scheme is now closed, but please contact us to discuss alternative funded opportunities for employers
Opportunities for employers
We work with local, national and global businesses to ensure great opportunities are available to our students and graduates. Connect with Falmouth to promote or advertise:
- Job opportunities, internships and graduate schemes
- Competitions and events
- Live project briefs and freelance work
- One-year industry placements
- Part-time, term-time and campus jobs
- Funded employment schemes
- International internships and job opportunities
Get in touch
Through the dedicated career platform Handshake, employers can connect with our students and alumni, post job opportunities, organise interviews, promote events and actively search candidate profiles – all free of charge.
Join us on Handshake today and advertise your current opportunities.
Some helpful guidelines before registering:
- At Falmouth, we believe in equal opportunity for all students and therefore will only promote paid positions. Roles must meet the UK national living wage, or international equivalent.
- During term-time, it is recommended that current students only work 15 hours per week.
- The job board is frequented by graduates and alumni seeking full-time and part-time roles, please also consider posting more experienced roles alongside entry-level positions.
- We are committed to providing students access to great opportunities across the industry and are proud to work with real living wage and disability confident employers.
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We are happy to discuss new ways to connect industry with students. Our team can support in identifying potential partnerships and helping businesses build collaborations with courses and students. If you have some ideas, contact us on realworks@falmouth.ac.uk
If you're looking for virtual space to connect with our students in 2021-2022, please email realworks@falmouth.ac.uk
We're delighted to be launching a project-based, micro-internship scheme with subsidised funding for businesses from September 2021.
We're inviting local, regional, and national businesses to partner with us to create opportunities for our students to work on dedicated projects, helping your team launch new initiatives or sustain existing projects.
- Funding available to support creative internships within your business
- Internships to address clearly defined, innovative project briefs, suitable for students applying for their first graduate-level role
- An internship is 30 hours to be completed within 2-6 weeks
- Internships can be remote, face-to-face or a hybrid
- Students will be paid at the Real National Living Wage rate
- Further information on the scheme and funding available upon application
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Upcoming career events
From career talks hosted by top graduate employers to webinars and workshops, get ahead by attending our upcoming events.
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Get in touch
If you've got a question or want to find out more information about our RealWORKS employability service, just get in touch with the team.