Preparing for your career

It’s possible that you don’t know what you eventually want to do or what you will be able to do while you’re in the middle of your studies. However, you will still need to make decisions as you prepare for your professional life. We have some tools that can help you to get started

Discover yourself with Brightspace 

Take the time to ask yourself the following questions: Who am I, what am I capable of, what do I want and how can I achieve it? Brightspace offers the Career Orientation course, which includes useful tests that will give you a better understanding of yourself. The course also offers inspirational videos, checklists for job applications and exercises.

Go to Brightspace

Please note: If you are studying at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Sciences or the Faculty of Law, or you are a Bachelor’s student from the Faculty of Arts, we regret to inform you that there is still no available version of the Brightspace Career Orientation course that you can take.

If the course that you wish to take is still not available, send your question to careerservice [at] ru.nl. Once we have received your question, we will be happy to assist you.

Where will your studies take you? 

Log in to our career platform to find out about the jobs that our former students found and how they ended up at their current place of work. The chat feature makes it easy to ask them about their work and experience.  

Go to Career Central

Contact

If you didn’t find what you were looking for, send an email to the address below to receive tailored advice about which steps you should take