Santander Network Fund Information Session
Start Date: 30 November 2022 1:00 pm
End Date: 30 November 2022 2:00 pm
Location: Binks Building, Exton Park (Parkgate Road), Chester
This event description will be updated shortly.
Author: Chris Wilson
Daring to Disagree
Start Date: 23 November 2022 11:00 am
End Date: 23 November 2022 2:30 pm
Location: Molloy, Exton Park (Parkgate Road), Chester
The aims of the training are to explore:
- What do we mean by consensus?
- The strength of disagreeing and how managing this can help us grow.
- Where our belief systems come from and how that shapes us into tribes.
- The process of creating beliefs and how to break down the barriers these create.
- How we can become active listeners and understand why people feel the way they do so we can attempt consensus
- The importance of understanding where the feeling of peoples beliefs stem from.
- The skills we can develop to allow us to network and build social capital effectively
The training will be facilitated by a Stephen Dowson from Stand and be Counted. It will be a safe space to develop skills, engage in discussions and allow self-reflection.
Presentation Skills
Start Date: 9 November 2022 1:00 pm
End Date: 9 November 2022 2:00 pm
Location: Binks Building, Exton Park (Parkgate Road), Chester
We would like to invite you to our Presentation Skills Workshop on 9th November from 1 PM – 2 PM.
The session will be held in BINKS CBK013/1&/2 at our Exton Road Campus, Chester.
This session will be facilitated by our Head of Department for Law, Ruth Sutton. Ruth is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Barrister-at-Law. She is a very experienced practitioner and academic, with extensive experience of teaching practical skills and advocacy.
The session will allow you to:
- Reflect on different styles of presenting
- Explore how you use speed and tone
- Understand how to engage your audience
Please note that these activities contribute towards the Chester Difference Award
Please only book a session if you are going to attend, events are oversubscribed
Spaces will be limited for the session. If you book a session, please attend or ensure you cancel in sufficient time.
Festival of Postgrad
Start Date: 17 October 2022 5:00 pm
End Date: 2 November 2022 7:30 pm
Location: Exton Park (Seaborne Library)
If you’re considering further study after your degree, the upcoming Festival of Postgrad is the perfect opportunity to start exploring postgraduate study options at the University of Chester. The Open Evening, taking place on 2nd November, 5pm – 7.30pm at Exton Park, at will give you the opportunity to meet lecturers from your prospective department(s) in person, as well as chat to support services including funding and finance, and admissions. Please note, this in-person Open Evening is the culmination of a fortnight of online information events taking place between 17th – 28th October, which will allow you to:
• Listen to talks and introductory sessions led by lecturers about your preferred course(s)
• Chat with academic staff and ask your questions
• Find out more about facilities and postgraduate life within your department or faculty
Open Days Team – visitus@chester.ac.uk
Please go to https://www1.chester.ac.uk/festival-of-postgrad to find out more and book your place (please be aware that the online information events and the Open Evening must be booked separately)
Careers Workshops – Making the most out of your summer
Start Date: 25 May 2023 1:00 pm
End Date: 25 May 2023 2:00 pm
Location: Online
This session will help you to identify gaps in your CV and to look at useful activities (paid and unpaid) to pack your summer holiday with fun and enhance your employability.
By the end of the session, we will have explored:
- What it means to develop yourself into a graduate
- Effective ways of boosting your CV
- Steps you can take to secure a future graduate job or postgraduate course
- Gaining confidence in articulating your skills and achievements
- Ways to improve your employability
- How Careers and Employability can help
This session is delivered by Career Consultants Brian Taylor
Careers Workshops – Finding your first graduate job
Start Date: 24 May 2023 1:00 pm
End Date: 24 May 2023 2:00 pm
Location: Online
Are you finding it difficult to make choices about what to do after university? Do you put off making a decision until the very last moment? Or maybe you’d prefer someone else to decide for you? Perhaps decision making leaves you feeling overwhelmed and anxious? Then come along to this session to explore strategies to help you tackle indecision and manage your indecisiveness.
The aims of this session are:
- Learn about the psychology of decision making
- Understand the difference between indecision and indecisiveness
- Reflect on and identify your current decision-making methods
- Explore different decision-making tools and strategies
- Gain tips for managing feelings of stress and overwhelm often associated with indecisiveness.
Careers Workshops – Struggling to make choices: How to overcome career indecision and manage indecisiveness
Start Date: 24 May 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 24 May 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Careers and Employability Centre, Exton Park (Parkgate Road), Chester
Are you finding it difficult to make choices about what to do after university? Do you put off making a decision until the very last moment? Or maybe you’d prefer someone else to decide for you? Perhaps decision making leaves you feeling overwhelmed and anxious? Then come along to this session to explore strategies to help you tackle indecision and manage your indecisiveness.
The aims of this session are:
- Learn about the psychology of decision making
- Understand the difference between indecision and indecisiveness
- Reflect on and identify your current decision-making methods
- Explore different decision-making tools and strategies
- Gain tips for managing feelings of stress and overwhelm often associated with indecisiveness.
Careers Workshops – Developing a career idea to get a job: Where to start
Start Date: 23 May 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 23 May 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Online
Find out why having a career idea or several career ideas is useful and learn how it will help you get a job. Knowing how to develop a career idea from scratch and knowing how career ideas can change over time will inform your career planning and decision-making. Learn the skills of self-reflection and how to develop your self-awareness. Find out about different ways of generating ideas and how to choose between them. Learn how curiosity, research and trying-out can build your confidence, knowledge and motivation to get a job you want.
The workshop will provide you with information, advice and activities, signposting you to further resources and support. There will be an opportunity to chat, carry out an activity and have your questions answered. The session will help you to start developing a career idea and enable you to continue working on your idea(s) afterwards.
By the end of the session, you will:
- Know how to identify your interests, skills and values
- Be able to explore different career ideas
- Understand the value of focusing your job search on one or several career ideas.
This session is delivered by Rebecca Nethercott – Career Consultant
Careers Workshops – What are digital skills and how can I develop them?
Start Date: 5 April 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 5 April 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Online
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.
Careers Workshops – Getting a job using LinkedIn
Start Date: 4 April 2023 12:00 pm
End Date: 4 April 2023 1:00 pm
Location: Online
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
