Employability Week: 20-23 February – BOOK NOW!
We are hosting a week of workshops and events to help develop your employability skills run by experts and industry specialists. The sessions are for all years and for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
Click on the title of each session to book via Careers Connect, there are limited amount of spaces so please ensure you book early so as not to miss out!!
Marketing Yourself
Monday 20 February
11.00 – 11.45,
Online via MS Teams
So what does marketing yourself actually mean?? Marketing involves selling yourself as much as it does a business. Marketing yourself is essential to every step of your success, from finding a job to building your own small business. Self-marketing means building your own personal brand, but it requires a bit of a different approach than marketing a company. In this session Ollie Taylor, Marketing Campaigns Officer will help you figure what that means for yourself and your own success.
Building Resilience and turning rejection into a positive!
Monday 20 February
14.00 – 15.00
Elm House, Room 503 (in-person)
Stuart Bullen, Student Support Guidance Tutor for the School of Business and Law will be talking through tools and techniques to building resilience, specifically for the recruitment process and how to effectively and pro-actively turning rejection into a positive moving forward!
Inside Truth about placements – from final year students
Monday 20 February
15.00 – 16.00
Elm House, Room 503 (in-person)
A chance to hear from current final year students who were on placement last year, how the recruitment process was for them. Their placement experience in their own words, and the chance to ask questions to your peers that you might not ask your lecturers or Employability and Placement staff!
CV writing – Tips and techniques to help get shortlisted
Tuesday 21 February
10.00 – 11.00
Elm House, Room 403 (in-person)
The team from Neuco Ltd, a Brighton based Global Recruitment and Executive search company will be offering tips and techniques which will help you succeed in producing a CV that will help you get noticed and short-listed . Harry, Henry, Katya and Charlotte will provide some great advice and will show CV templates with examples of what a good and not-so-good CV would look like, a practical session to help you improve your recruitment chances.
How to SMASH an interview!
Tuesday 21 February
13.00 – 14.00
Elm House, Room 503 (in-person)
Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB) which was founded by Brighton Business School Alumni. Steve Agace, Director – will be giving you invaluable and fantastic advice on what their clients are looking for when interviewing you. The do’s and more importantly the don’t of succeeding in interviews for graduate roles, placements, part time work – his advice will help you whatever year you are in and whatever job you are going for!
Building the Skills for the future of work
Gladis Araujo, Vice President – Mattel Inc.
Wednesday 22 February
11.00 – 12.00
Elm House, Room 402 (in-person)
An amazing opportunity to meet with the Vice-President of Mattel Inc – Global Quality and Supply Chain driving the digital transformation for the company, nearshoring initiatives, and value networks. Gladis will share what a global company like Mattel Inc. are looking for in their potential employees, the skills and how to build them through your time at university and early career.
Gladis Araujo is an accomplished Board Member, C-level, and senior leader specialized in global sustainable supply chains, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and digital transformation. She is the representative of the chamber of commerce Singapore Mexico and board member of several public, non-profit, and government organizations. She is also the founder and president of several non-profit organizations aimed to support children, girls, and women.
Recognise and sell your Skills – Brighton Attributes
Wednesday 22 February
12.00 – 13.00
Elm House, Room 505 (in-person)
During your time with us, you’ll develop seven key attributes, a set of qualities and skills that can help you to achieve your future plans, and make a difference in the world. These are:
- critical thinker,
- engaged global citizen,
- confident communicator,
- inclusive collaborator,
- resilient self-advocate,
- solution-oriented innovator
- creative and confident user of digital technologies.
Liz Marks (School of Business and Law Employability lead) and Christina Keiller (Careers Development Advisor) will go through the attributes and how you sell them in yourself to future employers to be the best candidate.
Building a dynamic Linkedin profile
Wednesday 22 February
14.00 – 15.00
Elm House, Room 103 (in-person)
Clare Forder (Subject lead for Enterprise and Innovation) runs an important session to ensure you build a dynamic linkedin profile and how to use Linkedin for networking and the recruitment process. Knowing how to use this fantastic resource while at university and in your early career is vital!
Build your confidence, communication skills and personal brand: From beepurple, the startup team
Wednesday 22 February
17.30–19.30
Online
Learn how to build your self-belief and promote you and your business more confidently to your network and customers with Michelle Okwudiafor, career and confidence coach and founder of @career_invest
How Volunteering can enhance your CV
Thursday 23 February
10.00 – 14.45
Elm House, Room 505 (in-person)
How to get involved in volunteering and boost your employability. Active Student – the volunteering service at the university will guide you through the possible routes to volunteering and the benefits for your employability, skills development and enhancing your CV.
Mock Assessment Centre with Computacentre
Thursday 23 February
11.00 – 12.30
Elm House, Room 206 (in-person)
If you haven’t come across assessment centre’s already in your job searches then you will soon. So many businesses now run assessment centres where they bring together shortlisted applicants and spend a morning or day completing individual and group tasks!
Craig will be running a mock assessment centre exercise, a fully hands on session where you will learn first-hand what they are all about. Craig will also divulge some hints and tips on how to succeed!
Building confidence in the selection process
Thursday 23 February
13.00 – 14.00
Elm House, Room 302 (in-person)
This skills session will go through each stage of the PwC selection process and will provide useful hints and tips on how students can confidently prepare for success in any application process, with an opportunity to ask questions to a PwC recruiter.
Mentoring – working together to achieve your goals
Thursday 23 February
14.00 – 14.45
Elm House, Room 504 (in-person)
The Careers and Employability team run some excellent mentoring programmes that aim to help support your continued professional and personal development. Mentoring is all about you working with a professional to help you achieve the goals you set for yourself and to reach your potential. It doesn’t mean that you have to have a particular issue or problem that needs solving. You work with your mentor to jointly achieve these goal. Each year, students feedback that the experience has genuinely made a positive difference.
To find out more about Mentoring: How could a mentor help me (brighton.ac.uk)
Local Placements Fair
Thursday 23 February
15.30 – 17.30
Elm House Atrium
On Thursday 23 February we will be holding a Local Placements Fair from 15:30-17:30 in Elm House Atrium where you can talk directly to companies offering placement opportunities in the south east region.
Get ready to Network, LinkIn, have your pitch ready or bring your CV with you – put your best foot forward and give yourself the best chance. Book now!!!
Hazel Brown • February 14, 2023