The Employer Services Team - Durham University

The Employer Services Team – part of Careers & Enterprise

The Employer Services Team at Durham University is responsible for working with businesses of all sizes and from all industries to support you with recruitment into early careers roles such as graduate jobs, sandwich placement years and summer internships. We’re especially keen to support small and medium sized enterprises to access talent from Durham University, and run a series of events and activities throughout the academic year allowing you to meet and recruit Durham University students.

We’re always happy to spend time talking to you about how we can support your search for the next generation of talent, from advertising vacancies to supporting you to set up a graduate scheme, and everything in between!

Some of the services we provide to small and medium sized businesses include:

Supporting you to create engaging and attractive job descriptions
Providing free of charge interview and assessment space on-campus
Advising on recruitment timelines
Sharing intelligence about the skills, experience, interests and expectations of students
Advising on typical salary levels
Free of charge access to our annual recruitment events, including our career fairs
Supporting with recruitment into part-time roles for students in the local Durham area
Signposting to support available elsewhere in the University and externally

You can contact the Employer Services Team at employers@durham.ac.uk. We don’t list phone numbers as we’re not always in the office, but if you would like to arrange a call with a member of the team please send us an email and we can arrange this via telephone or Teams.

Careers and Enterprise staff members meeting at the office

People	Role	Contact Details
Esther Banev - Employer Services Manager	Esther is generally the first point of contact for businesses interested in recruiting students from Durham University. Esther spends a lot of time speaking directly to businesses, providing advice, support and guidance around student recruitment, as well as managing the day-to-day activities of the Employer Services Team.	Contact Esther at esther.j.banev@durham.ac.uk.
Jason Lam - Employer Events & Fairs Coordinator	Jason supports businesses to arrange and run recruitment events, workshops and promotional events on-campus and virtually. He is responsible for advertising employer events to students. He also supports businesses with information and advice around suitable events, bookings and logistics for careers fairs.	Contact Jason at careers.events@durham.ac.uk.
Catherine Howe - Employer Engagement Coordinator	Cathi is responsible for vacancy advertising to ensure that job listings reach the right candidates and effectively highlight companies' unique opportunities. Additionally, she promotes exclusive opportunities and manages the employer vacancy newsletter.	Contact Cathi at catherine.howe@durham.ac.uk.
Luke McCaffery - Student Employment Coordinator	Luke supports students into paid, part-time work while they’re studying. He organises our annual Part-Time Jobs Fair and spends much of his time supporting local employers to attract and recruit students into part-time roles. Luke also runs the Student Employee of the Year Awards, celebrating students working during their studies and the businesses that employ them.	Contact Luke at ses@durham.ac.uk.
Joyce Kwok - Employer Engagement Administrator	Joyce's role involves supporting the whole Employer Services Team with their activities throughout the academic year. She gets involved in every aspect of employer activity and is happy to help businesses with general queries. Joyce supports at all of our events and careers fairs, and coordinates the team’s social media and marketing activities.	Contact Joyce at chung.y.kwok@durham.ac.uk.
Vacancy Advertising Service	Our vacancy advertising service is currently managed by staff from across the team. We can support employers on job descriptions, salaries and targeted marketing of internships, placement years and graduate jobs. You will also receive additional support if you would like to recruit exclusively from Durham University.	Contact us at vacancy.advertising@durham.ac.uk for any vacancy related queries.