Careers and Employability

The Careers Team can provide you with impartial advice and guidance to support your career goals, explore your options and help you plan your next steps. 

Harrow College Careers Programme and Policy

You can access our HRUC Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) Policy here

pdf You can access the Harrow College Careers Programme here (156 KB)

For present and future students

• Interviews with a qualified careers advisor
• Information and advice about courses and apprenticeships
• Specialist careers advice for people in or leaving care, or who have an Education Health Care Plan
• A drop-in advice service
• Help with CV writing, job-searching and applying
• Information and advice about progression to the next course with us or elsewhere
• University applications help, events and visits
• Access to the student portal (for current students) with up to date resources for progression information.

For parents

• The opportunity to meet a qualified careers adviser and discuss their child’s next steps and opportunities
• Impartial advice on UCAS and student finance.
• Discussion with specialist staff about the specific needs of people with Education Health Care Plans

Please click here to view the Funding Higher Education 2025/2026 guide for parents/guardians and students which provides details on the support available for students considering HE.

The Careers Centre has a wide variety of resources and our friendly Careers Advisers are available for drop-in enquiries and personal appointments. The service provided by the team is matrix accredited. 

Current students can drop in to the Careers Centre for a quick query or can book a careers meeting using the QR code on the student portal.

The Careers Centres are by the canteen at our Harrow on the Hill campus and by reception at Harrow Weald campus.

Opening times

Harrow on the Hill Campus: 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Thursday.

Harrow Weald Campus: 9.00am - 5.00pm  Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. 

• Working with universities, employers and training providers

  At Harrow College, students are invited to participate in a number of events designed to build employability skills and explore options in Education and Employment.  There will also be opportunities for you to interact with universities and professionals to help you with your future plans. 

• Useful resources for planning ahead

  • Careers Information for parents - Talking Futures
  • Careers information – National Careers Service
  • Apprenticeship information – Rate My Apprenticeship
  • Applying to university - UCAS
  • Career ideas and information for your future from iCould
  • Discover your perfect career! Take our quiz to find careers matching your interests and courses to help you get there

• Labour Market information

  You can search a subject below to see what others have gone on to study at university and eventually gone on to do as a career – simply click the refresh buttons!

   

• Find out more about different job sectors

  Click on the different job sectors below to find out more about them. 

   

• Gatsby Benchmark

  Harrow College is committed to the Gatsby Benchmarks for good careers guidance as follows:

  • A stable Careers Programme
  • Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
  • Addressing the needs of individual students
  • Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers
  • Encounters with Employers and Employees
  • Personal Guidance.

  HRUC (Harrow, Richmond and Uxbridge Colleges) uses the Gatsby Benchmarks as a guide to plan our Careers Programme. Find out more about the Gatsby Benchmark here.

  As part of our commitment to informing our students of the full range of learning and training pathways on offer to them, we are happy to consider requests from training, apprenticeship and vocational education providers to speak to students.

  In the first instance, requests by providers should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All requests will be considered on the basis of staffing availability to support the activity, avoiding clashes with other planned activities, or rooming and space availability to host the activity.

• Management of provider access requests

  A provider wishing to request access should contact Careers Leader, Joanne Whitehead: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

• Contact Careers

  Our Careers Lead at Harrow College is Joanne Whitehead.

  To contact Joanne or our Careers Advisers call or email us on P: 020 8909 6000 or E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.