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Careers and Mentoring

With the incredible support of our alumni, we put employability and careers at the forefront of the College experience.  The °µÍø½ûÇø careers programme complements the resources, events and support that the offers.

What we offer

Sarah Richey and Clelia McElroy make up the Careers Team. We support students and young alumni to become graduates that are well prepared for the workplace, placing a strong focus on helping them to develop the key skills that employers want to see. We showcase the full range of career options available, from the first days in College through to graduation and beyond.

We couldn’t do any of this without our wonderful alumni – so many of you have generously offered your time by mentoring current students and other alumni, facilitating clinics and workshops, and attending our networking events. Thank you so much.

You can read more on our case studies page. Please  if you would like to learn more or get involved. 

Jesus Connect, our Careers and Mentoring platform

 is for the exclusive use and benefit of alumni and current students of °µÍø½ûÇø. As well as facilitating new connections with other Jesuans, Jesus Connect is also a great place to find contemporaries with whom you have lost touch. 

Our alumni community is made up of Jesuans working across all industries and professions. If there is something you are interested in doing, there’s a good chance another Jesuan has relevant experience and is happy to share that experience with you.

We have a range of interest and industry groups, designed to facilitate the sharing of resources and further networking with your peers. Please join the one that is the most relevant for your career area, and if there isn’t one that fits currently, feel free to set one up. Then get the conversation started – we would love for you to share regular content!

Jesus Connect is also a great place to let students know about upcoming opportunities, jobs, and internships. As well as a dedicated job-sharing page, we have created a group to promote internships and work opportunities to students. Most of these opportunities come from our alumni community and often come with the offer of mentorship and guidance for selection process and interviews. If you have an opportunity you would like to promote to students, please feel free to contact us to discuss further.

You can also access posts providing advice for specific sectors, groups focusing on particular career interests, invitation to events, application links to internships, and work experience opportunities.

Mentoring

You can use  to connect with mentees from across the student and alumni community.

Why take part?

Being a mentor provides you with the opportunity to share your professional experience and expertise, and to provide others with an insight into the operation of your industry.

  • It will allow you to broaden your professional skillset - the resources, training, and experience you will gain throughout the programme will add to your existing expertise.
  • You will gain a sense of personal satisfaction in helping to develop the potential of others.
  • Mentorship is a fantastic way to give back to the College.
  • You can also enhance your professional network - by working with your mentee and meeting fellow mentors and participating in the programme, mentoring is a great way to extend your network across the College's alumni community.

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Careers Service resources

Find out about the wide range of free resources and events available via the University's Careers Service.

Careers Service resources

Hear from our alumni

  • Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)

    We first met in 2021 when we joined the May Ball committee as webmaster and graphic designer. We spent a lot of time together that year, working closely to create a graphic scheme and build a website for the event. Even though it was a lot of hard work and very stressful at times, we are so grateful to have been part of it as it is thanks to that opportunity that we became great friends. A couple of years later, we are still great friends and now have a...

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    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)
  • Ilana Cohen

    Ilana Cohen

    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)

    I arrived at °µÍø½ûÇø in 2022 as a Harvard Social Studies Exchange student. Initially, I was compelled to pursue the program due to the academic freedom it offered, excited to work closely with leading thinkers in self-directed studies around climate change ethics. Upon starting at Jesus, though, I realised that I also gained the opportunity to join an incredible community of wonderfully eclectic and deeply welcoming scholars and peers. My Jesus experience was also formative for me as a climate justice activist. Sharing knowledge and building relationships with Cambridge...

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    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)
  • Mark and Janet Hayes

    Mark Hayes and Janet Livesley

    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)

    We first met in 1980 when Mark returned to Jesus to study for the postgraduate diploma in Architecture and Janet joined the college on the same course. Graduate dinners in Upper Hall were a highlight of the week and an opportunity to meet socially with other Jesuans. Part of our studies included trips to Zambia and an earthquake-hit area in Southern Italy. We were married in the College Chapel just after completing our studies in the summer of 1982 and remained in Cambridge for a period following Mark’s election to...

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    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)
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    John Arrastia

    Law (1995)

    I came to Cambridge at the suggestion of a Professor who was visiting the US. I borrowed the funds to study there. What appealed to me at Jesus was that it was so inclusive and embracing. I played golf with the Porters and rugby with the staff. I dined with the other students, socialised with the Fellows, danced with the Master’s wife, and really got to know people. My friends and colleagues were engineers, doctors, politicians, religious scholars, undergrads, lawyers, professors – basically every stripe of humanity one could find...

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    Law (1995)
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    Johnny Harounoff and Stephanie Posner

    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)

    We met 10 years ago as undergraduates living in the same staircase in North Court and have since been studying and working in the United States. The College was so accommodating to us by providing us — and other Jewish students — with kosher facilities and by supporting the creation of the College's first Jewish Society. For us, the College is full of happy memories thanks to the friends we made and for all of the kindness shown to us from the porters, professors and staff. That sense of community...

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    Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2013) and Classics (2012)