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Jobs and micro-placements

The Careers and Enterprise service at Birkbeck is dedicated to connecting our students and recent graduates with a broad range of employers, helping you to match your unique skills and experience with exciting jobs and micro-placements. These opportunities enable you to create and build professional networks, apply your learning in the workplace and gain valuable experience to enhance your career.

How to access jobs and micro-placements

As we make the transition from Handshake to the expanding services in your Career Access Portal (CAP), follow these steps to get the most out of your portal:

To access CAP

Current students:

  • Log in to your My Birkbeck profile. Select the Careers and Enterprise tile and follow the link to CAP.

Recent graduates:

Micro-placements

Our Micro-placement opportunities aim to support and enhance the career development of Birkbeck’s students and recent graduates (those who have graduated within the past two years).

Micro-placements are work projects designed to give you professional work experience and develop your careers skills, while you study. We work with a range of UK employers, across multiple sectors, to provide exciting and valuable opportunities to Birkbeck students and recent graduates.

Access our current micro-placements listings by checking our social media pages on LinkedIn.

Forage

Forage is a work experience programme covering a diverse range of bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual experience programmes that give students and graduates a genuine career advantage with the world's top companies. This experience can enhance your CV and help address experience gaps when applying for longer-duration placements.

  • Current students can access Forage by logging in with their Birkbeck email address and following the instructions on screen.
  • Alumni: as Forage is open access, you can create a profile with your personal email address and follow the instructions on the site.

Contact us

If you have questions, you can use our ASK query service or email us.

To stay up-to-date with news, follow Birkbeck Careers and Enterprise on our LinkedIn channel.