Employability webinars
Upcoming events
Thursday 5 August 2021 – 2pm
CVs and cover letters, a complete ‘how-to’ guide
Questions about how to present a clean CV are by far the most prevalent across all of our webinars. Join this session to get a run down on the CV basics and rules, as well as some advanced tips to unlock the potential of your experience and skills on paper.
Thursday 9 September 2021 – 2.00pm
Jobs that will shape the future
Find out what the most sought-after jobs of the future will be and the skills that will be demanded of those bright enough and forward-looking enough to fill them. Whether it’s environmentally conscious positions with existing household names or transforming century old professions via coding and cloud computing, join us for this webinar to find out what the jobs market will be post-2021 and how you might be able to put yourself at the top of employers recruitment piles.
Thursday 23 September 2021 – 2.00pm
Choosing the right employers: stories from current employees
Choosing an employer can be a difficult task when you’re looking in the window from outside. Find out why current employees made the leap to their particular employers, how they researched companies before they applied and what they wish they’d known ahead of interview.
Thursday 14 October 2021 – 2.00pm
Employability skills: commercial awareness
Commercial awareness is perhaps one of the trickiest employability skills to define. In this webinar, we’ll be shining a light on how you can improve your commercial awareness – like any skill, it requires regular use to maintain. Join us as we talk about the best ways to improve your commercial awareness and how you can show it off to employers in applications and at interview.
Thursday 28 October 2021 –
Leveraging the part-time job: from supermarket to superstar
Part-time jobs are often highly underestimated for the value that they provide to a CV and a hiring employer. Join us for this webinar when we’ll be talking about squeezing all of the worth that you can out of that short term university job and making it work for you when you go on to greater things in a graduate job.
Thursday 18 November 2021 – 2.00pm
What do skills mean to different people: interpreting employability skills
Our employability webinars have featured a range of employers talking about a huge number of different topics. Each time we talk about employability skills, we find that there are slightly different meanings to each recruiter. Join us for this talk where we discuss the different interpretations of employability skills and how they might differ depending on the job that you’re going for.
Thursday 2 December 2021 – 2.00pm
Employability skills: resilience
Join us for this webinar where we’re breaking down yet another hard-to-define skill that has become a mainstay of modern recruitment. Are you truly resilient and what does that mean in practice? We’ll be talking about how you can maintain a growth mindset, learn from your mistakes and articulate both when you’re put on the spot at interview.
Thursday 16 December 2021 – 2.00pm
Revisiting the CV gap: can you do more now?
The CV Gap has been our most popular topic over the last two years. Join us for this webinar where we’ll revisit the topic, explore how virtual has changed the recruitment landscape and explore what we can (or cannot) do now that (we hope) the pandemic is on its last legs.
Why and how to attend
You’re invited to join in the conversation at our series of live webinars.
Hear from top employers as they discuss the skills they seek in their graduates, listen to fellow students as they share their experiences and find out more from the TARGETjobs team as we explore current career topics and trends.
Interested? Simply click on the webinar that interests you, then once registered you’ll get an email from Livestorm with a link to join.
