Author: Amy Edwards

Find out how the online professional networking site LinkedIn, can be used to get a job. Knowing how to set-up and use an effective, personalised LinkedIn profile to connect online will help you discover job opportunities, gain information about the organisation and promote yourself to employers. 

Learn how to connect and communicate with professionals, follow organisations in which you are interested and join discussion groups and forums. By having an active presence on LinkedIn, you can get a job speculatively, hear about job opportunities early and apply to advertised positions.

The workshop will provide you with information and advice, signposting you to further resources and support, so that you can work on your profile and use LinkedIn afterwards. There will be an opportunity to chat and have your questions answered too.

By the end of the session, you will:

• Know how to build your identity and create and effective profile on LinkedIn
• Be able to contact and connect with employers and professionals on LinkedIn
• Understand how you can use LinkedIn to develop your knowledge of employers, organisations and industry sectors.

This session is delivered by Paramjit Mathura – Career Consultant

We use digital technologies every day to learn, find things out and communicate with each other. But, you may not be feeling confident about using technologies to find work or articulate the digital skills you have to employers.

Digital skills are needed in all workplaces. Find out about how to identify, talk about and develop the different digital skills that employers are looking for.

You could be required to prepare and deliver a presentation in many different situations including as part of your studies, at a job interview, during a meeting or at a conference or other event. This could be in-person or online.

The ability to present yourself confidently, authentically and effectively is the key to successful communication and working relationships.

This session is designed to help you:

• Know how to prepare for a presentation
• Understand audience/recipient management
• Understand the role of presentations in hiring processes and in the workplace

Understanding how an organisation operates and the marketplace it operates in demonstrates your knowledge and interest to an employer and is something that employers will often look for as part of the recruitment process. Industry Insight is also known as Commercial Awareness and is a sought after trait by employers in all sectors. This is an area which students and graduates can often struggle with and it can affect their application/interview success. Join our virtual workshop to learn what is meant by Industry Insight /Commercial Awareness and how to get yourself “commercially ready” for a competitive job market.

This is not just for Business students!

By the end of this session you will:

• Understand what Industry Insight / Commercial Awareness is.
• Understand why it is important.
• Learn how to develop Commercial Awareness.
• Understand recruitment techniques for gauging Commercial Awareness.

The session will be on simplifying the job search for international students, and will cover topics such as:

• The UK job market 
• Researching employers 
• Tips and tricks 
• A Q&A to finish