employability and careers

RSFC are committed to ensuring that all our students are supported to develop an appropriate career plan and encouraged to take part in a career placement during their time here. Impartial one-to-one careers advice and guidance is available for all students at RSFC.

In the first instance, your Student Performance and Development Leader will give you advice on education and work opportunities, as well as assisting you with your applications for universities or jobs. We offer one-to-one interviews, careers workshops and access to a range of careers resources and software.

Your Student Performance and Development Leader will work with you to plan your opportunities for progression and our Employability Co-ordinator will support you in finding relevant career placements. It is our aim to offer all students a career placement before they leave the college, to support applications for further study and employment. RSFC students have been successful in securing career placements with a range of organisations including the NHS, education establishments and businesses. A number of students who have attended these placements have also been offered employment once their studies were completed. For some university courses, a career placement is an essential part of the entry requirements, including initial teacher training and all health-related courses. If you study for a BTEC qualification, you will be involved in a career placement as part of your course.

During the pandemic RSFC has worked hard with various partners to ensure that while face-to-face placements have not been possible, virtual work experience programmes have been established.

Y12 student Muneeb Al-Haseeb completed a virtual work experience placement with Crystal Doors, a Rochdale-based manufacturing company which is just one of two companies in the north-west to be awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development in 2021.

“I have enjoyed interacting with new people to brainstorm ideas and then coming together to present potential solutions.” Muneeb Al-Haseeb

NB: Career placements will be subject to COVID-19 safety guidelines.