Career resources for student nurses and newly registered nurses
Whether you're looking to apply for your first nursing role or gain work as a healthcare assistant alongside your studies, our careers resources can help you to improve your employability and be job ready.
Free webinar: Interview skills and techniques (14th July 2025 at 14:30)
This webinar is designed to help RCN members enhance their interview technique and confidence.
New RCN campaign: Guarantee jobs for all nursing graduates!
The RCN has received worrying reports of student members struggling to find jobs once they have graduated.
For us to drive change and support our student members, we need to understand the extent of the problem so that we can strengthen our lobbying of governments and employers to guarantee jobs for all nursing graduates.
That's why we've launched a UK-wide survey about the availability of jobs for third year students. You can help this campaign by completing the survey and sharing it with others.
Stand out and get shortlisted for your dream job.
Exploring careers within Social Care: Complex Domiciliary Care.
Ace your interview: expert tips for success.
Using AI to help with your career
Job searching
How and where to start searching for jobs, networking and using social media.
Transferable skills
Find out why they're important and how to use them to get your next job.
Career Coaching
Find out how career coaching can help student and newly registered nurses
Become a student ambassador
As a student ambassador, you’ll get regular updates, access to specialist groups and networking opportunities. It’s a great way to become more ready for that all-important first nursing job.
Online advice for students
- accountability
- practice placements
- assessments
- failures / resits / appeals
- raising concerns,
- working as a HCA, and more.
Students: Thinking About Your Career
Use this resource for guidance on choosing and applying for your first role as a registered nurse.
Looking for inspiration?
Career progression tips
Join the UK's largest union and professional body for nursing
Whether you're a nurse, midwife, HCA, AP or student, you can get a huge range of benefits when you join the RCN.
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