Canterbury Employability Festival programme

22 Employability Festival: Programme of Events THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER (CONT) EM P 11.30am-1.30pm COLT3 All humanities students The Careers Café is a networking event with a difference! Kent alumni, employers and staff members host 12.00pm-3.00pm Keynes Atrium Showcasing many of the extracurricular activities you can get involved with whilst studying at Kent, including volunteering, oncampus employment and more. Exhibitors: Academic Peer Mentoring B-KEW Work Experience Bursary Careers Employability Award on Moodle CELTA Employability Points Global Skills Award Jobshop Kent Experiences of Work (KEW) Kent Extra Kent Union – Student Advice Centre Kent Union – Volunteering KEW-NET Mentoring Language Express MyFolio Student Ambassador Scheme Student Enterprise Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS) EM P EDA Students only Do you want to get your CV checked? Come along to the Jennison Café area and Kate Ayres the Employability Adviser for EDA will look at your CV and give you feedback on how to improve it. With some employers only taking as little as 60 seconds to review a CV come along and learn how to make yours stand out from the crowd. Science, funding and Social Media Metrics – Plum Analytics YABILITY PO LO 10 EM P 5 5 12.30pm-2.00pm Jennison café 2.00pm-3.00pm Rm 110 Ingram All students The importance of using social media platforms to advance your career in science and how to collect metrics to aid grant funding. Open to all but useful for Science Faculty Post Graduate Researchers. Group Skills Workshop YABILITY PO LO 10 EM P EM P YABILITY PO LO 15 TS IN Careers Café (Humanities) YABILITY PO LO YABILITY PO LO TS IN A career with Clifford Chance means the opportunity to develop your talents to their utmost potential in a refreshing and stimulating environment. One where your unique talents will have the space to shine, develop and make a real impact. To find out more about commercial awareness & how you can demonstrate this in practical terms, please come along to this session. Kent Opportunities Fair EDA CV Pop-up TS IN All students Lawyers for a changing world: Clifford Chance is a Times Graduate Employer of Choice and one of the world’s foremost law firms, with more tier one ranked practice areas than any other firm. Because the challenges of modern business rarely fall within a single jurisdiction or practice area, we’re used to tackling problems in international, multi-disciplinary teams. TS IN 11.00am-12.30pm CNWsr8 EM P YABILITY PO LO 15 TS IN Insights into Commercial Awareness – Clifford Chance tables in the café, at which students discuss topics to help them to promote themselves to prospective employers, learn how to network and self-identify their skill set. Students can then develop a personal action plan with the support of table hosts. The session includes refreshments. Find out more at www.kent.ac.uk/alumni/events. TS IN At this session you will have the opportunity to talk to QA one of the UK’s leading graduate employers. You can quiz them on their experience of interviewing over 400 recent graduates so far this year – learn more from an employer about how to stand out at interview. 2.00pm-4.00pm SW101 in Cornwallis South All computing students A brief presentation outlining the skills looked for during group exercises at graduate assessment days. This will be followed by practical exercises giving students the chance to practise assessed group work, and a plenary session. Why should I take part? “I would highly recommend all students to attend this fair in the future.” Arts UG student

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