Author: Caitlin Armitage-Conway

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 Pam Matharu – Career Consultant”

A dry throat, raised heartbeat, sweaty hands – sound familiar? Learn to manage your nerves and approach interviews calmly by developing strategies to help you answer difficult questions. Know how to prepare and practise your interview technique.

By the end of the session you will be able to:

• Plan and prepare for your interview
• Understand the interview process
• Learn to structure answers to interview questions
• Promote your strengths and achievements
• Speak professionally and more confidently at interviews

We have Sarah Bailey, a start up expert on hand to answer all your questions to provide you with FREE information, advice and guidance. Book your 30 minute appointment today.

Deciding what to do after university can feel overwhelming. Perhaps this is because few of us have a single calling and the labour market is so complex with new roles developing all the time that it is impossible to know of all the opportunities available.

A job or career is more likely to be right for you if it aligns with who you are as a person. This interactive session aims to give you a deeper insight into what you want from your working life to enable you to identify careers that are more likely to make you happy and fulfilled. The activities will help you to explore and articulate your essential personal drivers (e.g. your strengths, interests, values, motivations, personality). We will explore ways that you can use this process of self-reflection to develop career ideas and to provide focus for a job or course search.

The session will be on simplifying 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

So you’re going to launch your own business and you know that effective public relations and marketing are going to be important ingredients for success. But what do those terms really mean and where do you start? Join us for a lively introductory session hosted by former newspaper editor and PR agency founder Herms de Winter when we’ll get to grips with what it all means and how we can use PR and marketing to get the best head start for your business. We’ll be busting the myths, sorting the facts from fiction and providing you with some valuable strategies, tips and advice.

David Murphey (patent attorney) and Kate Cruse (trade mark attorney) from Forresters talk you through the basics of Intellectual Property to include patents, trade marks, designs and copyright. For all businesses IP is its most valuable assets and we will discuss how to secure protection of it with you

#IAmRemarkable is a Google inspired initiative empowering women and other underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. Many of us struggle when it comes to talking about our own accomplishments. Cultural and gender modesty norms as well as impostor syndrome can prevent anyone from acknowledging their remarkable attributes and expressing their achievements.

The session will allow you to:

• Learn the importance of self-promotion in your personal and professional life
• Equip you with the tools to develop this skill.
• Challenge the social perception around self-promotion

The training will be facilitated by a member of our Careers and Employability team, it will be a safe space to develop skills, engage in discussions, and allow self-reflection.

Please note, due the interactive nature of the workshop, spaces will be limited to 15 students for each session. If you book a session, please attend or ensure you cancel in sufficient time.

This session is for any student or graduate wanting to understand how to write a CV and cover letter. The benefit of taking part in this DevelopMe session is that it will help you to:Understand what an employer expects to see within a CV and cover letterFind relevant evidence from within your own experience to use within your CVIdentify what needs to be included within a cover letter to enhance the CVConsider your next step(s) and action that you need to take, whether that is to start a CV or cover letter from scratch, alter an existing one, or get further help from the Careers and Employability team. 

This session is delivered by Andrea Hilditch – Career Consultant