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EMPLOYABILITY & PLACEMENTS EVENTS
- Are you interested in career mentoring?
Would you like to have a career mentor? We are inviting all first and second year students, as well as students who will be enrolled on a Kent postgraduate course in Autumn, to participate in a career mentoring programme starting in October.
Kent Career Mentoring aims to connect Kent students with Kent alumni, to receive guidance and support in achieving their career ambitions. We aim to match students with an alumnus working in a profession they are interested in. As a mentee you’ll experience a wide range of benefits from your mentoring partnership which could make a big difference to your future career prospects.
Find out more here or click here to apply now!
- Destination Success Bootcamp – 24-26 May – last chance to sign up!
The Careers and Employability Service is launching our first ‘Destination Success Bootcamp’ which is a 3-day intensive training programme with the purpose of helping students to map out their journey to success and build confidence in their abilities. This programme is suitable to those across all years, including recent graduates. We have limited places so would recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
For more information, including the joining instructions and to book your place go here – https://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/DestinationSuccess.html
OPPORTUNITIES
- One-year post-graduate job scheme for Psychology graduates – working with primary school children
Graduating this summer and interested in working with primary school aged children? Two Bridges School in Tunbridge Wells is looking for a Psychology graduate to work alongside the programme lead on their Primary Focus programme; a nurture-based programme to support primary aged pupils with social and emotional coping strategies.
- Psychology student wanted for part-time therapy role (Head First)
Head First provides access to mandatory training and brain injury specific training. Head First also provide regular 1:1 clinical supervision and 24/7 emergency on-call support. This is a great opportunity for a therapy assistant to assist a 14 year-old girl with her independence and ongoing rehabilitation.
- Volunteering Opportunity: Make Education Fairer!
CoachBright are looking for Kent students to work with school pupils from low-income backgrounds to help them improve their grades, confidence and access to university. As we navigate life in a post-covid world, it’s more important than ever that our most disadvantaged pupils are getting the support they need.
Click here to find out more and help make education fairer!
- NatWest Insight Weeks for Women – apply now!
Applications now open for NatWest Insight Weeks for Women. This is a great way to learn more about NatWest and a career in banking; network with colleagues to hear about their experience and get a feel for the culture. The programme will run over four days from 30th August to 2nd September 2022.
- How to get a graduate job – free online course!
Make your graduate job search easier and land the graduate job you want with help from the UK’s leading graduate coaching company. Understand the graduate recruitment process and prepare for the world of work to land the job you really want!
BOOK A 1-1 CAREERS CHAT
Need some advice on your CV or future career? Book a one-to-one appointment with our Employability Officer who can support you with your job and work experience search, help you look for and secure work (we review CVs, applications, and offer interviews and assessment centre training and advice). Use the link below to make an appointment:
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/aspirations/book-a-careers-chat/
CAREERS SERVICE EVENTS
Don’t miss Life After Uni Week – 16th- 19th May!
Life After Uni Week – Careers and Employability Service – University of Kent
All session now open for booking!
A week of inspirational talks from employers and workshops designed to support students with their journey immediately beyond graduation. More events are being added, please see the weblink for details.
Highlights include the following:
Employer Event!
Join Dan from the Graduate Recruitment Bureau and hear how mentoring can give you the edge in entering the graduate careers market.
Mentoring! Give yourself the best start to your career. Learn how to access over 200 Mentors from Facebook, Google, Coca-Cola and many more and get your CV checked over, brainstorm ideas and boost your personal brand!
Life After Uni- Make Yourself Impossible To Ignore!, Tuesday 17th May, 10:00-11:00
Employer Event!
CV/employability tips / interview prep / commercial acumen / practical takeaways.
James Gray is Head of Digital at Wonderful, an agency specialising in taking complex business problems and fusing creativity & technology to deliver wonderfully simple digital solutions. In an ever-changingdigital environment, Wonderful exists to take the complexity out of brands’ Digital Marketing, Website Design and Development, App and Software Development and Data Analytics by joining the digital dots, delivering award-winning strategic solutions and campaigns. James has worked in marketing and the digital industry for 15 years, working across B2B & B2C industries including everything from nightclubs to automotive, healthcare to commercial real estate, FMCG to travel.
Life After Uni – Accepting A Job Offer and Negotiating Contracts, Tuesday 17th May, 11:00-12:00
Congratulations – you got the job! Now it’s time to consider the details. This session is your guide through the steps from a verbal offer, to signing on the dotted line and how to make sure you get the right reward for your hard work ahead. The session covers:
- How to say ‘yes’ (or no) to a job offer
- What to expect in a job contract and what to watch for
- Tools and tactics to prepare for effective contract negotiations
- Predicting the difficult questions that might arise if you have multiple offers
- How to weigh up the non-contract benefits of different offers for your career journey
Invitation for graduating students to sign up to Target for ongoing career support
All students graduating this year are being emailed via Target and invited to sign up to Target with an Alumni account using a personal email, so they can still use our services for up to 3 years after graduation. Please encourage your students to complete this when they receive this email invites. Or go to https://careers.kent.ac.uk/unauth/graduate/register
Work and Opportunities Fund – Apply here
Are you planning or have you recently secured some unpaid work experience? Attending a training or networking event which will help you in your future career? You could be entitled to funding of up to £250!
This funding will contribute towards the cost of transport, accommodation, training, childcare, or uniform.
To be eligible, you must be:
- Be a student registered with the University of Kent, studying in the UK.
- Be undertaking work which is considered graduate-level or attending a training / networking opportunity that will support your employability upon graduation.
- Claim the funding against costs incurred in the first 3 weeks (or 120 hours) of your work experience.
Monday 16 May
Study Plus: Writing for the Web and Social Media at work – by Jakki Bendell, 09:30-11:00, Online
Many organisations now expect all employees to help write quality web content. These skills are a great asset to any company and your career, whatever your academic background and job role.
Whether writing web pages, a corporate blog or helping to build a social media campaign, this session will give you the basics for writing compelling online content. It is highly interactive including group discussion and practical exercises.
After completing this 90-minute, online course, you will be able to:
- Understand how digital writing differs from academic writing
- Know what to write about and how to engage your readers
- Plan and structure your content
- Get to the point quickly
- Ensure the language and tone is right for the audience
Life After Uni – Why you might want a job in the fastest growing sector of UK industry, the Creative Industries. With The Design Community Hub, 12:00-13:00, Online
A conversation with Deborah Dawton CEO of the DBA, Tim Greenhalgh, Chief Creative Officer at Landor & Fitch and Emily Foulkes, Project Director of the Design Community Hub on all the routes into and through the creative industry.
Life After Uni – Inclusive Careers: Imposter Syndrome by Sal Pearman, 12:30-15:00, Online
As much as we want to stay optimistic, focussed, and productive, it can be very easy to slip into negative patterns of thinking. To ask, “Am I good enough?”, “Can I do this?”, “Am I a fake?” With the huge impact of a more digital and global community it’s easy to feel less capable, less confident, and perhaps less worthy than our peers.
This half-day workshop will demystify the truth behind Imposter Syndrome and will provide practical tools and techniques to accurately understand, communicate and celebrate our abilities.
Over the half-day workshop, we will cover:
- What is Imposter Syndrome (is it a real thing?)
- How we might experience Imposter Syndrome and how it can impact us
- How to accurately label our skills and experiences
- Challenging negative self-talk and self-doubt
- Mental reprogramming: thinking differently and thinking positively
Life After Uni – CVs, Cover letters and Application forms, 15:00-16:00, Online
Join this information session to find out the key things you need to include in your CV, application forms and cover letters.
We will cover the dos and don’ts and ways to tailor your documents to make you stand out.
Tuesday 17 May
Life After Uni – Make yourself impossible to ignore! 10:00-11:00, Online
James Gray is Head of Digital at Wonderful, an agency specialising in taking complex business problems and fusing creativity & technology to deliver wonderfully simple digital solutions. In an ever changing digital environment, Wonderful exists to take the complexity out of brands’ Digital Marketing, Website Design and Development, App and Software Development and Data Analytics by joining the digital dots, delivering award-winning strategic solutions and campaigns. James has worked in marketing and the digital industry for 15 years, working across B2B & B2C industries including everything from nightclubs to automotive, healthcare to commercial real estate, FMCG to travel.
Work Study Scheme: Selling yourself in applications, 11:00-11:30, Online
How to sell yourself in job applications -specifically applying to the Accenture role for Marketing & Communications, transferring your skills and experience into an application form.
Life After Uni – Accepting a job offer and negotiating contracts, 11:00-12:00, Online
Congratulations – you got the job! Now it’s time to consider the details. This session is your guide through the steps from a verbal offer, to signing on the dotted line and how to make sure you get the right reward for your hard work ahead. The session covers:
- How to say ‘yes’ (or no) to a job offer
- What to expect in a job contract and what to watch for
- Tools and tactics to prepare for effective contract negotiations
- Predicting the difficult questions that might arise if you have multiple offers
- How to weigh up the non-contract benefits of different offers for your career journey
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Make informed decisions about different job offers
- Know what to expect in a job contract
- Negotiate the terms of a job contract
Life After Uni – Using LinkedIn, 13:00-14:00, Online
With 87% of recruiters using LinkedIn, having an online presence is crucial! But how do you use LinkedIn successfully?
In this session find out how to build your LinkedIn profile and use the platform effectively to showcase your skills. The talk will also share how employers use LinkedIn to recruit and how to grow your professional network.
Wednesday 18 May
Life After Uni – What to do in the first three months of your role? 11:00-12:00, Online
The move from university to work is a huge shift in culture, expectations and measures of success. This session is about starting out in work. The session covers:
- The induction process and how to make a good first impression
- How to get to know your role fast and get stuck in
- The key things you can do to build a good working relationship with your boss
- Taking care of your mental health during a time of change
- Managing hybrid working
- The reality of starting salary
The session shares tips on receiving feedback and how to action it, advice on how to be yourself at work and evidence based approaches to supporting your wellbeing. It also includes some practical exercises on how to plan your first three months and get ready for your six month probation.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Know about the expectations of new recruits
- Gain practical tools to help manage the challenges of the first 3 months and make a good transition to working life
Life After Uni – Interview skills including video interviews, 13:00-14:00, Online
This session will cover common interview questions and how to approach them, including competency, strengths based and motivational questions. The session will also look at steps to take to prepare for an interview, helping you to feel more confident for the real thing!
Life After Uni – World Class Manager Programme Introduction, 15:00-15:30, Online
This session will introduce you to the online Certified World Class Manager programme. This programme can be completed at your own speed, introducing you to the actionable and highly practical ways to help managers get their best for themselves and their teams. It is designed around 12 habits of great leaders.
You don’t need to be a manager to attend the introduction and complete the course. This is designed to provide you with the knowledge you can take forward to your future employment.
Thursday 19 May
Life After Uni – Mentoring. Give yourself the best start to your career. With Dan Hawes from GRB, 13:00-14:00, Online
Give yourself the best start to your career. Learn how to access over 200 Mentors from Facebook, Google, Coca-Cola and many more and get your CV checked over, brainstorm ideas and boost your personal brand!
Study Plus: Goal Setting and Goal Achieving – tips to help feel motivated and productive at work by Jeffrey Wotherspoon, 14:00-15:30, Online
People generally know the importance/benefits of setting goals but most people do not know how to do so effectively. Others might describe goal setting a little like marmite – they either “love it or hate it”.
This interactive 90-minute workshop is for you wherever you are on the spectrum. If you love goal setting and want to upskill and learn more this is for you. However, if you have given up on goal setting because it hasn’t worked for you in the past or you just don’t know the benefits of it, this workshop is for you too.
During this workshop, you will have the opportunity to create a goal and learn tips that will help you achieve it.
In addition, we will cover the common mistakes and pitfalls people make when creating goals. And there will be a Q&A where you will have the chance to ask questions and gain clarity on why some goals may not have worked for you.
Life After Uni – Postgraduate Study, 15:00-16:00, Online
Find out about how to find courses, the application process and how to write a personal statement.
Friday 20 May
Life After Uni: Journaling Tools to help Manage Time, Efficiency and Wellbeing by Esther van Hout, 11:00-12:30, Online
Research shows that journal writing has extensive health and wellbeing benefits, as well as being an effective way to help you plan the life you want. This workshop can help with situations as varied as gaining confidence in writing, exploring personal challenges or keeping organised.
This workshop explores a variety of techniques that you can take away and use immediately, designed to support self-care, creativity and life management skills. A variety of practical exercises and readings will be provided. It is suitable for all standards of writing.
Participants will not have to share their work in the group unless they would like to.
Intended learning outcomes:
- Learn what journal writing is and how it can benefit mental wellbeing.
- Practise different journaling techniques, to focus your attention and express yourself through writing.
- Learn how journaling can help you with self-care, creativity and life-management.
Life After Uni – Graduating? Your Career Action Plan, 13:00-14:00, Online
Are you graduating this year?
In this session we take you through the process of reflecting on your readiness to engage with industry and apply for jobs.
Use the checklist to review your personal progress and work readiness and set actions for effective opportunity searching.
Life After Uni – Stress – How to manage it well when you are busy or have a heavy workload by Jeffrey Wotherspoon, 14:00-15:30, Online
Stress is something that affects everyone. It causes students to feel overwhelmed with their studies, accounts for huge percentages of absences at work, and can negatively impact our mental and physical health. Simply said if you do not take a proactive step to manage stress it could have terrible consequences.
This 90-minute workshop looks at what stress is and explores some of the benefits as well as the negative impacts of stress. Most importantly this workshop will provide you with practical tools you can implement to manage stress.
By attending this workshop, you will learn:
- how stress can aid you
- what to look out for to manage stress
- how stress can impact you physiologically, emotionally & mentally
- tips to manage stress.
Monday 23 May
Blind in Business – meet with an organisation that supports Visually Impaired students and graduates, 10:00-13:50, Online
Our goal is to help blind and partially sighted people into work. We provide training and resources for you and for employers to help get your career started. Find out more at https://blindinbusiness.org.uk/
Any queries, please email workstudy@kent.ac.uk
Using LinkedIn, 12:00-13:00, Online
With 87% of recruiters using LinkedIn, having an online presence is crucial! But how do you use LinkedIn successfully?
In this session find out how to build your LinkedIn profile and use the platform effectively to showcase your skills. The talk will also share how employers use LinkedIn to recruit and how to grow your professional network.
Study Plus Introvert – Thriving in the workplace as an Introvert by Joanne Rawbone, 12:00-13:30, Online
With so many workplaces biased towards extraverts, being confident enough to be authentically you, rather than pretending to be something you’re not just to fit in & get on, will set your career off on the right foot.
From interview stage onwards, owning and playing to your natural strengths as an introvert will have you stand out for the right reasons.
This 90 min session, delivered by Joanna Rawbone of Flourishing Introverts, is full of practical hints, tips and takeaways.
Graduating? Your career action plan, 13:00-14:00, Kennedy KENSR10, Canterbury Campus
How ready are you for graduation and making job applications? – This checklist will help you reflect on your career readiness and help you to set actions to fill the gaps.
This session is an in-person only event on the Canterbury campus.
Study Plus – Bitesize Language taster session – Arabic, 14:00-15:00, Cornwallis East CESR1, Canterbury Campus and Online
Discover World Languages-Taster Sessions are for beginners who would like to have a taster session of the Arabic language. No previous experience with the Arabic languages is required. Through an introduction of the habits and culture, you will gain some understanding of key traditions, learn and pronounce a range of simple key words, engage in basic everyday communication, introduce yourself in the target language, learn simple greetings and farewell phrases.
Study Plus – Bitesize Language taster session – Mandarin, 15:00-16:00, Cornwallis East CESR2, Canterbury Campus and Online
Discover World Languages-Taster Sessions are for beginners who would like to have a taster session of the Mandarin language. No previous experience with the Mandarin languages is required. Through an introduction of the habits and culture, you will gain some understanding of key traditions, learn and pronounce a range of simple key words, engage in basic everyday communication, introduce yourself in the target language, learn simple greetings and farewell phrases.
CVs, Cover letters and Application forms, 15:00-16:00, Online
Join this information session to find out the key things you need to include in your CV, application forms and cover letters.
We will cover the dos and don’ts and ways to tailor your documents to make you stand out.
Study Plus -Bitesize Language taster session – Japanese, 16:00-17:00, Woolf W1-SR5, Canterbury Campus and Online
Discover World Languages-Taster Sessions are for beginners who would like to have a taster session of the Japanese language. No previous experience with the Japanese languages is required. Through an introduction of the habits and culture, you will gain some understanding of key traditions, learn and pronounce a range of simple key words, engage in basic everyday communication, introduce yourself in the target language, learn simple greetings and farewell phrases.
Study Plus Italian/Spanish Bitesize Language Taster session, 17:00-18:00, Cornwallis East CESR1, Canterbury Campus and Online
Discover World Languages-Taster Sessions are for beginners who would like to have a taster session of the Spanish and Italian language. No previous experience either language is required. Through an introduction of the habits and culture, you will gain some understanding of key traditions, learn and pronounce a range of simple key words, engage in basic everyday communication, introduce yourself in the target language, learn simple greetings and farewell phrases.
Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 May
CES Destination Success Bootcamp – Days 1 and 2, 10:00-16:00, Canterbury Campus
Join us at this in person, interactive 3-day programme designed to help you map out your journey to success, whether that is employment or further study, and build confidence in your abilities.
Through games, group activities and experiential learning you will explore how to become the best version of yourself, how to navigate others and how to get things done efficiently, before putting it all together, so you can sell your skills and abilities in whatever you choose to do in life. Come away from the course with a clear understanding of how to sell yourself through your CV and a deep understanding of what you can offer future employers.
Apply now – limited spaces!
Thursday 26 May
CES Destination Success Bootcamp – Day 3, 10:00-17:00, Canterbury Campus
Join us at this in person, interactive 3-day programme designed to help you map out your journey to success, whether that is employment or further study, and build confidence in your abilities.
Through games, group activities and experiential learning you will explore how to become the best version of yourself, how to navigate others and how to get things done efficiently, before putting it all together, so you can sell your skills and abilities in whatever you choose to do in life. Come away from the course with a clear understanding of how to sell yourself through your CV and a deep understanding of what you can offer future employers.
Apply now – limited spaces!
Creative Access Training Session, 10:00-13:00, Online
Are you looking to improve your chances of gaining employment upon graduation? Sign up for step-by-step guidance on getting ahead in the creative industry and a chance to hear from a music industry professional!
What you will learn:
- How to best present your CV and covering letter
- How to ace your interview
- Expanding your networks
- Professional conduct
- Key tips for getting into the creative industry
- Meet Creative Access alumni to hear about their creative career journey
Friday 27 May
Graduating? Your career action plan, 11:00-12:00, Online
How ready are you for graduation and making job applications? This checklist will help you reflect on your career readiness and help you to set actions to fill the gaps
Study Plus: How to Manage Stress and Anxiety with Mindfulness by Esther Van Hout, 11:00-12:30, Online
Building mindfulness skills is now a part of training programmes in many organisations and taught at Google, Intel and Goldman Sachs. Scientific research is convincing them that investing in mindfulness skills will help boost resilience to stress and improve mental focus which will have a positive impact on employees and the organisation.
This practical workshop will give you an introduction to research-based strategies for coping with stress and anxiety. We will focus on how mindfulness practice can give us tools to build our resilience in the face of study, work and life challenges. Research shows that this helps to reduce the levels of stress we experience and makes us more able to focus, improve creativity and make better decisions. We will practice mindfulness exercises and techniques together, which you can continue to use after the workshop.
How to answer interview questions – the normal, the tricky and the downright strange! 13:00-14:00, Online
If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and why? … Does the thought of answering interview questions fill you with dread?! Come along to this interactive workshop, where we will discuss how to tackle basic interview questions, such as motivational questions, the trickier ones, including competency based and the unusual questions!
How to Network, 14:00-15:00, Online
Learning how to network effectively is one of the most powerful tools an individual can use to advance their personal and professional life. This skill could possibly help you land your dream job and become close with the leaders in your industry. This workshop will cover the benefits of networking, how to prepare for an event and how to get the most out of networking.
OTHER CAREER INFORMATION AND EVENTS
- GLF SCHOOLS TEACHER TRAINING
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- The Adobe Digital Edge Awards…
an industry-recognised award, which credits the best student examples of digital literacy in the country. This is a fantastic opportunity for students who are applying to placement or grad roles, to demonstrate desirable employability skills such as creative thinking and communication.
From engineering to geography, business to architecture, the Digital Edge Awards are open to all UK university students. To enter, students should submit coursework where they’ve showcased digital literacy skills – that’s work that shows off creative problem solving, critical thinking and visual communication! The awards are judged by a panel of experts, including
the founder of RateMyPlacement, Oliver Sidwell!
As well as the opportunity to receive an accolade for their CV, two winners will receive a £9,250 cash prize, alongside six runner-up prizes of £1,000!
You can find out more about the awards here. Entries close 31 May.
- GRN Member Invite: Fresh Insights Webinar
Our Fresh Insights series of invitation-only webinars continues on Wednesday 11th May at 12.30pm and I’d be delighted if you could attend.
Topic: Employment Law Update with Simon Bloch, Employment Partner at JMW Solicitors LLP. Discover the latest employment legislation for graduate recruiters covering employment law plus key employment cases.
Date: Wednesday 11th May 12.30pm-1.30pm GMT.
Interested? Book your free place here.
Don’t worry if you’re already booked up that day because once registered you will have access to a recording of the webinar on-demand.
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