Empower Opportunities Board
Opportunities Board
Some opportunities are open to all, and others have specific criteria.
Ethnicity or Heritage
Various sectors of work
Banking, Finance and Consulting
- Deutsche Bank: Rise
- Entrepreneurs in Action (EIA) - (investment management)
- Investment 2020
- KPMG: Black Heritage Talent Insight
- McKinsey & Company: Future Black Leaders Programme
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
Disability
Internships and opportunities
- Aspiring Solicitors
- Change 100 (Leonard Cheshire)
- EmployAbility
- Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment & Neurodiversity - GAIN
- KPMG: Abilities Talent Insight programmes
- Intensive Personalised Employment Support (IPES)
- Kent and Medway IPS Employment Service
- Supported internships
- Student Minds
- The Education People
Support and Mentoring
- Access to Work
- ACCESS:VFX
- Blind In Business
- City Disabilities
- Deaf & Disabled People in TV
- Disability Confident (employer scheme)
- Disabled Solicitors' Network
- Hatch: Launchpad
- Media Trust: Reframing Disability
- MyPlus+ Students' Club
- SoVIL - The Society of Visually Impaired Lawyers
- Shaw Trust short courses
- TargetJobs: Neurodiversity-friendly employers
Scholarships and Awards
Gender or Sexuality
Gender-specific opportunities
LGBTQ+ opportunities
- Consortium
- Gendered Intelligence: volunteering
- Just Like Us: volunteering
- LGBTjobs.co.uk
- MyGWork
- National Student Pride: Careers Fair
- Stonewall Proud Employers
- Trans in the City
- Vercida
Develop your skills through online courses
The Skills Network
Free courses and skills bootcamps
Coursera
Advance your career with courses (some of which are free) from universities and companies.
Open University - OpenLearn
Around 1000 free courses to choose from.
FutureLearn
Bite-sized, flexible learning, with lots of free modules available.
Study+ (University of Kent)
A wide range of non-credit-bearing courses for University of Kent students
International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL)
An internationally-recognised qualification, accredited by the BCS.
Google Digital Garage
Accelerate your career with an online digital skills course in everything from marketing to coding and beyond.
U-Explore
Discover what its like to work for employers, with activities which will get you ahead of the game and become application-ready for talent pools.
Social Mobility
Scholarships
Creative
Law, Public Sector, Professional Services
Mentoring and Support