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Your time and expertise are pivotal for our students and staff. Share and help in many valuable ways.

• Become a mentor
• Speak at our Student-Alumni events
• Organise a local reunion
• Post an internship vacancy

UCL 1 to 1 Careers Coaching

You can sign up to one-to-one guidance sessions which cover: 

• Exploring options related to your degree
• Planning your next steps after graduating
• Gaining experience through internships, placements, work experience and ‘shadowing’
• CV writing and making applications
• What to expect at interviews and assessment centres
• How to pitch your degree, skills and experience to employers
• Pursuing further study or an alternative career route outside of the Earth Sciences field

Book a 1 to 1 appointment

Practice interviews 

If you’ve been invited to any type of interview, you can book interview coaching. This role-play exercise will help you practice typical interview questions for the role/ course you’ve applied for and help you to work on your interview technique.
You’ll receive feedback on your performance during the session and have chance to address any other concerns you have about the interview process. We aim to make practice interviews as similar to the real thing as possible, so you must have a real interview invite before booking.

Book a Practice Interview appointment

Careers events 

Students can attend departmental, faculty and central careers events including sector-specific careers fairs, employer presentations and masterclass talks hosted by UCL Careers, designed to develop employability skills and explore different sectors. 
UCL Careers and the department’s student society (Greenough Society) run regular events including an annual alumni careers forum with students able to hear about a variety of job roles that former Earth Science students have gone to do.

Work experience and internships

Getting work experience is vital to build transferrable skills and gain exposure to different types of roles.  UCL Careers can support you with guidance on where to find advertised opportunities and make successful applications.  Many opportunities are never publically advertised and are often sourced using speculative approaches to target organisations or leveraging relationships with alumni.

Contact Us

GEE Alumni Lead- Prof Wenying Shou. Professor of Quantitative and Evolutionary Biology (w.shou@ucl.ac.uk)

GEE Alumni Committee Member- x. PostDoc (email)

GEE Alumni Committee Member- x. PhD student (email)

Events

Stay informed of upcoming departmental seminars and alumni events to stay connected with research in the department and GEE in the wider world.

Events and seminars | Faculty of Life Sciences

News

Follow the GEE newsfeed on our homepage to find out what is happening in GEE.

GEE News | Faculty of Life Sciences