Using your subject: Community Learning and Development
Learn how to use a degree in Community Learning and Development to enhance your career prospects
Studying Community Learning and Development (CLD) provides you with a mix of practical and academic skills that can be used in many key community-based roles
These skills, along with other factors of career choice – what you like doing (your interests), what’s important to you (your values) and your personality type – will help you make informed career decisions. Remember that your career may be based on the skills you’ve gained over the course of your degree studies.
Career options
Some of the main career options with a CLD degree are:
Jobs directly related to your degree include:
- Advice worker
- Community development worker
- Community education officer
- Family support worker
- Probation officer
- Social worker
- Teaching assistant
- Youth worker
Jobs where your degree would be useful include:
- Adult guidance worker
- Arbitrator
- Careers adviser
- Chaplain
- Detective
- Learning mentor
- Outdoor activities/education manager
- Paralegal
- Police officer
- Secondary school teacher
- Volunteer coordinator
You can find out more about these on Prospects what can I do with a youth and community work degree? as well as the wide variety of jobs where your skills and knowledge are applicable.
Resources to help with your career research
- CLD Standards Council Scotland – Career Pathways for CLD
- Getting a graduate charity role
- Prospects – focus on a career in Social Care
The icould website also has a full range of careers information interviews and case studies featuring numerous different roles which you can search through and view online. Some relevant case studies can be found below:
To help you explore the wide range of career options open to you have a look at Prospects what can I do with my degree? and take the Prospects Career Planner Quiz.
Volunteering
If you are interested in gaining some voluntary experience locally you may find the following websites helpful
- Volunteer Scotland advertises a number of local and national volunteering vacancies
- Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action advertises a number of Dundee based volunteering vacancies
Work experience and graduate jobs
- myjobscotland for local authority vacancies in Scotland
- The Guardian Social Care and Social Work jobs
- Charityworks – is the UK non-profit sector’s graduate programme.
General job searching sites
The following websites may be helpful to search the wider job market, where your transferable skills can be applied.
Graduate schemes
Many leading UK employers across all industries run graduate training programmes, to discover the benefits of these schemes and how you apply the links below will help: