Spring Reset & Shine: Join our new Graduate Career Sessions

Spring is on its way – a season of fresh starts, renewed energy, and gentle resets. Whether you’ve recently graduated or you’re in your final year and looking ahead, this is the perfect moment to pause, reflect and take purposeful steps towards your next career chapter.

Maybe your job search has stalled, maybe you’re not sure where to begin, or perhaps you’re ready to refocus with a bit of structure and support. Wherever you are in your journey, you don’t have to do it alone. This spring, your Graduate Career Development Adviser, Katherine Whittaker, is hosting a brand-new Reset & Shine series through Brighton Grad Futures, designed especially for recent graduates, with final-year students warmly welcome too.

Together, we’ll help you shake off winter overwhelm, get organised, build momentum, and move forward with clarity and confidence. 

What’s happening this Spring

Each month, we kick off with Monthly Motivation Monday, where Katherine hosts a relaxed online drop-in from 4–6pm: the perfect place to ask questions, reconnect with your goals, share progress or setbacks, and get friendly guidance from someone who’s here to listen and help.

If you’re still local to Sussex, you can take advantage of our Professional Headshots sessions, where you can book a slot to have a free, high-quality professional photo taken for your LinkedIn profile or job applications. Katherine will be available at our Moulsecoomb campus all day during these sessions for informal chats about using LinkedIn confidently as a new professional – feel free to book a photo slot or simply drop in for advice.

Alongside these regular opportunities, each month features themed Reset & Shine online session, focusing on a different career-building topic to help you develop confidence, clarity and practical tools to support you in your job search and career-readiness. Each session is supported by a short accompanying Top Tips video (that comes out the following month), so you can continue your progress in your own time.

Here’s what’s coming up:

• February Sessions
  • Reset & Shine: Getting the Grad CV Basics Right (Tuesday 24th February 12-1pm)
• March Sessions
  • Reset & Shine: Get Confident Using LinkedIn (Wednesday 26th March 12-1pm)
  • Top Tips Video: Grad CV basics
• April Sessions
  • Reset & Shine: 8 Steps to Interview Success (Wednesday 22nd April 12-1pm)
  • Top Tips Video: LinkedIn for Graduates
• May sessions
  • Reset & Shine JOIN ME to job search: find the right job for you (Thursday 14th May 12-1pm)
• Top Tips Video: Interview Success

Look out for our summer programme from June

Ready to Reset and Shine this Spring?

Wherever you’re starting from, you’re welcome to join us. Sign up for any of the sessions through Careers Connect, drop into the monthly Monday sessions on Teams, or pop by for a chat during our headshot days. And if you’re unsure which event is right for you, or you’d like some individual support, you can always get in touch.

Email Katherine: brightongradfutures@brighton.ac.uk

Find out more and book onto sessions on: Careers Connect

Let’s make this spring the moment you reset, refocus and take confident steps towards your next chapter. You don’t have to do it alone – we’re here to support you every step of the way.