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Do you want to learn more about how to successfully enter the job market? 
Would you benefit from advice on achieving your ideal career?
Would you like to meet other students/graduates and make lots of new contacts?
Are you interested in being mentored by a professional or in shadowing managers and leaders from a range of sectors?
If you answered YES to any of the above questions, the Network for Black Professionals' Student and Graduate Membership Scheme is for you.
Benefits as a member include:
- Mentoring support from experienced professionals
- Opportunity to work-shadow managers and leaders across sectors
- Opportunity to gain experience through internships with one of our 160 corporate members and through volunteering at NBP events
- Regional networking events to connect with fellow BAME students and graduates
- Access to a members only area of NBP’s website for information, career development guides and job hunting resources
- Network newsletters – 3 per year
- Weekly job/internship/placement alert
- Opportunity to contribute towards policy development and the wider work of the organisation
You will also be entitled to additional Network services at a reduced rate:
- Personal career coaching service – a dedicated service to support your career development
- ‘Get that Job!’ half day workshop at reduced rate of £30
- Inspirational Volunteer Journeys CPD programme for BAME students or graduates who want to give something back to their country of origin
- NBP special events and conferences
- Black Leadership Initiative® CPD programmes
As a member you will strengthen and support a united and effective voice for BAME students and graduates
Why Join?
As students get into more debt with the introduction of fees, BAME students face additional barriers in education including:
- lower grades when anonymous marking is not in place
- a lesser chance of achieving a first class degree
- higher drop-out rates
Black graduates are less likely to have a job than white peers - within 6 months of graduating 9.4% of BAME graduates are unemployed compared with 4.9% of white graduates - and are expected to earn up to 9% less for the same work within five years.
The Network is working in partnership with the NUS Black Students’ Campaign - the largest organisation of Black Students in Europe. They represent all students of African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean descent in Britain and campaign and lobby to raise awareness on issues affecting Black students at both a local and national level.
The current economic climate is set to leave many people out of work. The partnership between the Network for Black Professionals and the NUS Black Students’ Campaign is vital, to not only improve the career prospects of BAME graduates, but to make lasting changes to the inequalities that BAME graduates face in employment.
Student & Graduate Membership: £15
Register as a student/graduate member now
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