Enhancing your career prospects

Volunteering and gaining work experience can be a significant part of your journey both during and after your studies. Having the opportunity to apply what you learn during your degree in a practical and meaningful way will make you a stronger and more well-rounded candidate when applying for jobs.

Please see below a list of the organisations that offer volunteering opportunities to our students and that we work with on a regular basis. You will also find a live feed from our Facebook page where we advertise many of our opportunities for current students and our graduates.

Here in the Department of Law and Criminology, we offer three forms of placements while you study your undergraduate degree. We know how difficult it can be to gain the correct experience needed to get jobs, and that's where placement modules come in. These modules, such as Employability Skills for Professionals and the Criminal Justice Placement help you to gain that experience and skill set that employers look for while allowing you to gain credits towards your degee.

Other benefits of completing a work-based placement module include:

1. providing an opportunity to apply theory to practice
2. improving your self-confidence and sense of responsibility
3. enhancing your CV with experiential learning and experience
4. exploring different career areas
5. readying you for the workplace by identifying your strengths and developing transferable skills
6. providing opportunities to network and develop key contacts in established organisations that may support you in your future career.

Through our links we have placements available at many well known organisations. This is an opportunity to enhance your job prospects by developing skills and experience in the workplace that complement the knowledge acquired from your degree programme.

Aberystwyth University Law Society

The Aberystwyth University Law Society (AULS) is an active part of the Department of Law and Criminology which organises trips to courts and law fairs, talks, book sales, social evenings as well as the high point of the calendar, which is the annual Law Ball.

Aberystwyth University Criminology Society

The Criminology Society is another important part of departmental life with a varied programme of crime movie nights, prison visits and study support sessions before exam periods.

With a law degree, there will be many paths open to you in areas such as:

• citizens advice
• finance
• HMRC
• immigration
• local government
• paralegal work
• political research
• providing legal advice (as a solicitor or barrister)
• the civil service.

With a Criminology degree, there will be opportunities for you in the following areas:

• HMRC
• policy work
• the Police
• the prison service
• the probation service
• research
• youth support.