The Careers Team are here with advice and guidance about how to take the next steps into employment, whether you are still studying, about to graduate, or have graduated during the last 3 years. Our aim is to provide a a friendly and informal service to support you in deciding upon employment, further study and career queries. Professional advice is available to assist you in research opportunities and jobs, CV writing, completing application forms and developing your interpersonal skills for interviews.

Information for the DLHE Collection Notice.

Our team

Melanie Hall (starts April 2012),
Head of Careers and Employability

Joan Whibley
Acting Head of Careers (from Jan - April)
Tues, Wed & Thur term time only
Tel: (01243) 816076 or
Email: J.Whibley@chi.ac.uk

Lucy Bone
Careers Assistant
Tel: (01243) 816035 or
Email: L.Bone@chi.ac.uk

Opening Times
The Careers Centre is located in New Hall 108, Bishop Otter Campus and is open between 9am and 5pm (4.30pm on Fridays). Careers information is also available from the Library at Bognor Regis Campus. Our shelves are at the rear of the library near the magazine/study area.

Appointments
Our appointments are arranged via SIZ. At Bishop Otter Campus appointments are usually available Monday to Friday (except Tuesday afternoons during term-time). Evening appointments can be arranged on request.

At Bognor Regis Campus appointments are available on Tuesday afternoons during term-time. Other times are available with more notice. At Bognor we are based in the Student Services Building between the back of the Assembly Hall and the Mead Lane car park.

Postal Address
Careers and Jobshop, University of Chichester, Bishop Otter Campus, West Sussex, PO19 6PE

DLHE Collection Notice

About the survey

The survey we are asking you to take part in is a national survey of everyone who has recently qualified from any university or HE college in the UK. The information you provide will also be very useful to us at University of Chichester to advise our current students about the opportunities that might be available to them.

Of those who obtained qualifications across the UK in 2008/09, 78.2% responded to the survey. Of these, 60.5% reported that they were working and a further 9.2% were working and studying. 14.9% were undertaking further study only 7.3% of leavers were assumed to be unemployed. More results can be found at www.hesa.ac.uk/sfr148

If we don't hear from you we will try to contact you again, possibly by phone, so please let us know if you change your email address or phone number. If we can't get in touch with you at all, we may try to get information about what you were doing from someone else, either at the university or someone we can reach using the contact information you have previously provided. If you don't want us to do this, or you don't want to give us any information at all, please tell us. Below are details about what happens to your information after it is sent to us.

A follow-up survey is planned for three years time so that we can get even more information about the early careers of those with HE qualifications. You might be asked to take part in this follow-up survey as well, which will be carried out by a different organisation. The current survey may also be audited - that is, checked to make sure it has been carried out correctly. If you don't want to take part in the follow-up survey, or to be contacted during an audit, please let us know. You can also let us know that you do not want to take part in the follow-up survey by ticking the box at the end of the questionnaire.

What happens to your information

The University complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 with regard to the collection, storage, processing and disclosure of personal information and is committed to upholding the Act’s core Data Protection Principles.

The information that you provide on this form will be processed internally by the University of Chichester for research and statistical purposes only. The information will be disclosed to the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) as part of a statutory return.

We will send coded information from this form to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). By returning this form, you are accepting that this will be linked to other information held about you as a student, including similar coded information you gave when you enrolled, and details of the qualification you gained. HESA will pass your record, or parts of it, to the following organisations that need the information to carry out their statutory functions connected with funding higher education.

• Department for Innovations, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
• Welsh Assembly Government (WAG)
• Scottish Executive (SE) [Scottish Government (SG)]
• Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL(NI))
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
• Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
• Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC)
• Training and Development Agency For Schools (TDA)
• Department of Health (DH)
• Research Councils (RCs)

HESA and the organisations listed above will use the information in your record mainly to produce statistics. This may result in information being published and released to other approved users, including academic researchers and commercial organisations. Your record will not be used in a way that could affect you personally. HESA and the organisations listed above will take precautions to reduce the risk of you being identified from the information once it is published and released.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to a copy of the information HESA holds about you. You will have to pay a small fee for this. If you have any concerns about your information being used for these purposes, please contact HESA.

HESA
95 Promenade
Cheltenham
GL50 1HZ

Website: www.hesa.ac.uk