What do we offer?

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If you would like to organise a workshop for students within your subject, then please contact your Faculty Link. We are happy to deliver both existing or bespoke sessions.

Workshops we currently deliver

Getting started

  • Make the Most of Your Careers Service
  • Thinking About Your Career
  • Career Planning and Development
  • Career Adaptability
  • Careers Resources
  • Making Career Decisions
  • Careers for Penultimate Years
  • Career Tactics Approaching Your Final Year

Skills - what are employers looking for?

  • Marketing Yourself for Employment
  • Skills Analysis
  • Skills for Placement
  • Brookes Future Leaders Programme
  • Coach Yourself - an introduction to coaching techniques
  • LinkedIn Masterclass
  • Assess Yourself for Personal and Professional Development

CVs and applications

  • CVs, Covering Letters and Application Forms
  • CV Masterclass (for subject area)
  • Online Applications
  • Making Great Applications for the Brookes Graduate Internship Scheme

Psychometrics and personality type

  • Introduction to Psychometric Tests in Recruitment
  • Introduction to MBTI Personality Type Indicator
  • MBTI Type Indicator and Group Work
  • Conflict Resolution Using the TKI Instrument

International

  • Options After Graduation for International Students
  • Employability and Immigration
  • Immigration and Job Searching

Options - things to consider

  • What Can I Do with My Degree?
  • Finding Your Way Through the Multitude of Careers Options
  • Life Beyond Graduation: The Survival Guide (for subject area)
  • Alternative Careers (for subject area)
  • The 4 Most Frequent Questions (for subject area)
  • Get into Teaching

Job search, work experience and volunteering

  • Part-time Jobshop
  • Get the Job You Want
  • Effective Job Search
  • Understanding the Graduate Job Market
  • How to Find a Summer Job/Internship (for subject area)
  • Part-time Work and Volunteering
  • Prepare for a Careers Fair
  • SME Internships and CVs
  • Reinvigorating Your Placement Search
  • Finding Jobs in Europe

Interviews and assessment centres

  • Interview Preparation
  • How to Impress at Interviews
  • Ace Your Assessment Centre

Postgraduate

  • Thinking About Postgraduate Study?
  • Writing a Winning Personal Statement
  • Formative Personal Statement (for subject area)

Researchers

  • Managing a Career in Academia
  • Strategies for Employment: Effective CVs, Applications and Interviews for Researchers
  • Academic Careers (for subject area)
  • Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness as a Researcher
  • Coaching Tools for Personal and Professional Development