Skills Development Scotland (Edinburgh) Careers Centre (Skills Development Scotland)

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is the national skills body and we deliver Scotland’s career service in schools, in SDS centres, through our Helpline, and online.

No matter what stage you’re at in your career, support is available for you. Our professionally qualified experts support people of all ages to take control of their future.

New locations for the SDS career service in Edinburgh

Residents in Edinburgh can now benefit form changes to the careers service in the city. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) has changed locations in Edinburgh as part of a drive to help more people through partnership working in community venues.

Co-location in partner premises enables SDS to increasingly deliver career services in more convenient locations for customers and supports the need to deliver value for money and efficiencies for investment in public services. National skills body SDS offers free, impartial career information, advice and guidance in secondary schools and for people of all ages across Scotland. Customers can now meet the SDS team in a number of colleges and community venues across Edinburgh including Edinburgh College and neighbourhood libraries across the city. As part of this change, the team moved out of its Shandwick Place career centre in the city’s West End at the end of November.

Locations

Customers can find out the new delivery locations through the following link - https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/community(this will open in a new window) and can call 0800 917 8000 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm) to make an appointment.

SDS advisers work across the country supporting anyone looking to get into work, change career, upskill or reskill, or re-join the workforce after a career break.

Customers in Edinburgh can call 0800 917 8000 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm) to make an appointment or find out what venue would be most appropriate for them.

They can also visit the careers website, My World of Work(this will open in a new window) (www.myworldofwork.co.uk(this will open in a new window)), at any time.