Would you like to help current and prospective students of the University?

There are lots of ways you can be involved, from providing quotes about your time at Sheffield, offering work shadowing and work experience places for our students and volunteering to speak to students about your career choice and experiences.

If you would like to help, this page will tell you how.

Quotes and Experiences

Quotes from alumni are always helpful to use in the University’s publications. If you would be happy to provide a short quote about your time at Sheffield, what you found useful and how it has helped you in your career please complete the form below.

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Activities of Potential Interest

Please tick any of the following activities that you would be interested in attending:

Careers talk to current students

If yes, please give some indication of the occupations covered by the talk

Guest lecture on course issues to current students

If yes, please give some indication of the content of the lecture

Making a presentation at open days for prospective undergraduate students

Would you like to say anything about your experience at Sheffield

Please use the tick boxes to indicate if you are happy for us to use your quotes in our printed publications and on our website. We will make every effort to use your quote but we cannot guarentee submitted items will be published.

May we use this quote in print?

May we use this quote on the University website?

Data Protection Act (1998): Under the confines of this act, The University of Sheffield will use the information provided by you for the University of Sheffield's education, social, administrative and fundraising purposes only. Your personal information can be removed from the alumni mailing list within one month of receiving a written request from you.

Mentoring and Work Shadowing

The Careers Service runs a career mentoring scheme to allow students to talk to someone working in a profession that interests them. For further information about this scheme please email careermentoring@sheffield.ac.uk or download information from http://www.shef.ac.uk/careers/employers/raising/mentoring.html. If you wish to offer an insight into your organisation you may also be interested in our work shadowing scheme. For further information please contact the Student Jobshop at studentjobshop@sheffield.ac.uk.

A Day in the Life of…

The Careers Service is also producing a series of podcasts and information sheets called “a Day in the Life of …” where employers describe a typical day and why they chose their profession. For more information please visit http://www.shef.ac.uk/careers/students/worktypes/dayinlife.html. If you would like to participate in a Podcast please email careers@sheffield.ac.uk or if you would like to fill in an information sheet please go to http://www.careers.dept.shef.ac.uk/casestudies.

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