Your feedback counts

Across our events, appointments, various schemes and online learning pathways we ask for your feedback to help us tailor our activities to the needs of future students.

Please get involved by filling in feedback requests, attending a focus group or you can email us at careers@manchester.ac.uk

Careers Service focus groups (2025) - what's next?

Firstly a big thank you to all those you signed up and attended, it was great to hear from so many of you, we really value your thoughts and honesty.

So what happens next?

  1. We now have a report that will be shared with the Careers Service team.
  2. The leadership team will look at the focus group findings from the student, employer and University of Manchester stakeholder groups to understand key themes, conflicts and synergies.
  3. Careers Service staff will have an opportunities to share their ideas and discuss how to take forward agreed strategic priorites and any changes to our provision.

However, we have already taken some actions based on your feedback.

  • You said it wasn't clear the connection between the Careers Service, our website, our communications and our CareerConnect portal.
    • Branding on CareerConnect has been updated to ensure that its clear that its part of the Careers Service, email communications that come from us via our CareerConnect portal also have the new Careers Service branding on them.
  • You said that you were not aware of our YouTube channel and the recorded events there.
    • We have tried to make this more prominent on the home page of our website. (The link is on the bottom of every page too)
  • You were not aware that we have an instagram account (9,000 followers and counting) and that we post weekly event calendars there as well as advice on what to do now.
    • We have also tried to make this more prominent on the home page of our website. (the link is on the bottom of every page too)
  • You said the website was hard to navigate and you missed finding out about things.
    • We will be working on our web page over summer to try to improve navigation. We would love to redesign it but we need to wait for IT updates to the templates for this. In the mean time if you cant find something, try using the internal site search at the top of each page.