What is Target Connect?
Target Connect is the University’s online employability platform. It acts as a central hub where students can access everything related to careers and employability in one place. For staff, it is a practical tool that helps connect curriculum with employability support.
Through Target Connect, students can:
- Find opportunities – job vacancies, internships, volunteering, and employer events.
- Book support – one-to-one careers appointments, workshops, and skills sessions.
- Access resources – a library of guides, videos, and digital tools (including AI tools to help with applications, CVs and interview prep).
- Engage with Pathways – our structured, self-guided career learning programmes tailored to common student challenges.
For programme teams, Target Connect is useful because it provides ready-made, high-quality resources that you can point students towards. This reduces the burden of having to “teach careers” yourselves, while still ensuring your students get consistent, professional-level guidance.
In short, Target Connect is the university’s careers and employability hub. It helps students explore options, develop skills, and take practical steps towards graduate-level work, while giving academics an easy way to signpost students to support. Chapter 5 will go into more detail about how we are asking staff to use target connect to support students.
Getting started with Target Connect
To help you understand the role of Target Connect in Career planning we’ve created two short videos on how you Register and Log into Target Connect Below.
About Career Planning Learning Pathways in Target Connect
In response to the career readiness data, we have for the past three years developed Learning Pathways designed to support students develop a career plan. We have developed over 50 pathways, all of which are currently being used by students, albeit on an adhoc basis. We believe these can be easily integrated into appropriate modules and Academic Tutoring across a programme. Not all may be right for your programme, but we share the titles of each below, how they map onto the career readiness questions students are asked as well as giving you a very simple overview of what the pathway covers. Staff can take this “off the shelf,” and over time, staff can develop their own pathway using these as a template and we’d be happy to help you do this.
About career planning learning pathways
In response to the career readiness data, we have for the past three years developed Learning Pathways designed to support students develop a career plan.
Contact Us
Please request to meet with an Employability Skills Advisor or Employability Skills Manager