The Careers Advisory Service provides a drop-in facility offering employment resources, information on work placement schemes and interview and aptitude test simulations. It also provides details on postgraduate study. Understanding the requirements of employers Preparing job applications and CVs Practising for tests and interviews As well as attracting a number of well-known multinational companies in the recruitment round, the Service maintains an extensive library of employer and postgraduate files, numerous company videos and recent software packages. The Skills Awareness and Development Programme Skills awareness and development modules are available to all first year students. The objective of the programme is to devise an action plan, which is then developed through the second and third years.
Students make presentations in teams to a variety of companies at the Careers Information Fair.
Aberystwyth is unique in offering, through the Year in Employment Scheme, a year's work experience to students between the second and final years of study. Placements are in commerce, industry and the public sector and are based in both the UK and abroad. Opportunities to Study Abroad Accounting and Finance with French, Spanish, German or Italian degree schemes are four year schemes. The additional year is spent abroad studying. Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Limburgs University in Belgium and University of Padua in Italy.