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Workshops & Skills

Explore our programme of workshops, lounges and sessions to help you Build Success and gain employability skills and the King's Skills for the Future, where you can self-assess your own existing skills and strengths.

 

Alongside our employer events we run many activities across the year designed to educate you on the labour market, build your commercial awareness, reflect on your skills and enhance your understanding of different options available to you.

These workshops span your entire career journey from exploring potential careers to working on CVs and succeeding at interviews.

Alongside in person and virtual delivery, they are also available as recordings on our KEATS pages.

Topics are themed and include:


 Discover  Focus Action 
What do I want from my career after university? Getting meaningful work experience and internships CVs, cover letters, personal statements & application forms
Searching for career opportunities; Networking for your career using LinkedIn and more Job interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres

Explore #MyNextSteps on KEATS

Delivered by our specialist Employer Relations & Development Advisers, these virtual workshops are held across the year providing you with an in-depth look at the graduate labour market within a particular set of industries.

You can search for them under the heading on King's CareerConnect, or access the relevant sector workshop through the activities embedded into each of our Sector Pathways.

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Alongside our employer events, many more events run in your department, faculty or as part of a core programme of workshops designed to support all students

These are run by Careers Consultants, often with the support of academics, student ambassadors and societies and take place throughout the academic year.

They include everything from what career options are available for students from your degree to how to prepare for entry into specific careers.

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Our dedicated Research Talent Careers Education team run a suite of events supporting researchers at King’s.

We work closely with the Centre for Doctoral Studies and the Centre for Research Staff Development to provide variety of events to develop your skills in career management, increase career confidence and hear from experts in many different sectors.

View & book upcoming Workshops

Each September we run a suite of workshops introducing you to our services, helping you navigate our support and keeping you up-to-date with the latest trends in the UK graduate labour market.

View & book upcoming Workshops

Drop-in Careers Lounges take place in departments and across our campuses and include support for:

  • Understanding how your degree enhances your knowledge, attributes and skills
  • Employment or further study options with your degree
  • Unlocking meaningful work experience, internships and work simulations
  • How to use our digital careers tools effectively

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    King's Skills for the Future

    King's Skills for the Future is a self-assessment tool and set of learning pathways located on King's CareerConnect. It is designed to help you evaluate, develop and expand your existing skill set. Using the existing King’s framework for identifying employability assets (KASE), the tool is focused on 36 high-value skills that are particularly important for your employability.