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The ability to turn original ideas into reality often by perceiving situations in new ways, finding hidden patterns and making new connections.
Explore your understanding
Offering knowledge, producing insights, turning new ideas into reality are all part of the creativity process. Many employers value creativity in the workplace, they are looking for you to be able to explore your creativity through research, experimenting, getting feedback, using imagination and collecting information.
You will find that your work and how you work with others can also contribute to the overall goals of a creative process. Encouraging ideas is also consider a key part of the creativity process.
Find and develop your skill
How can you improve your creativity skills at UCL?
Learn more about creativity with employers
Attend an Employer-led Skills session and learn through collaboration. Work alongside others while learning a new activity or task. You could also try coming to a Mock Assessment Centre where you can hear new ideas, practice working on case studies and explore your creative thinking.
Use LinkedIn Learning to grow your skillset
LinkedIn Learning has a huge range of video courses supporting learning in software, creative and business skills – all free to UCL staff and currently enrolled students.
Attend a boot camp session focused on business idea generation
By attending the 1 day Imagine: Business idea generation boot camp you will be able to understand more generating new ideas, the value of a good team and evaluate your own personal strengths.
Join a club or society
Be part of a club or society within the Students’ Union and further develop your creativity skills. Contribute new ideas to the operations and success of a wider group.
UCL’s Volunteering Services Unit partners with more than 400 local charities to promote their volunteering opportunities. Use the Volunteering Service’s skills explorer to find volunteering opportunities where you can develop new skills and build on existing ones. It’s a great tool to use in conjunction with your wider career planning.
Search volunteering opportunities
Develop your creativity skills as a Researcher
Expand and develop your creativity skills. The UCL Doc Skills Programme is open to all postgraduate research students at UCL. You’ll find more information on all the courses available.
UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme
You will also be able to browse the scheduled events for researchers and those for doctoral students. Research students can also access courses mapped to the Researcher Development Framework (RDF) and one-to-one advice, practice interviews and workshops tailored to researchers.
Prepare your examples
Ask yourself:
Prepare some examples of creative projects you may have worked on as part of your course? Can you think of any ideas you used to develop the project further?
Can you describe a creative idea or project you have developed yourself? How was it received by others? What steps did you take next?
Have you taken an existing process and used your own creativity to make it better? Can you describe what you learnt?
Next steps:
Need some support on how to structure your answer relating to creativity for an interview? Visit our Interviews Skills page.
How to demonstrate your skills in an interview
Here you can find out more about how to structure your answer and demonstrate your skills along with many more resources that will help you prepare.
If you have written a draft application for any type of opportunity, our team can provide personalised practical tips and advice to help you better understand how recruiters will shortlist your application, and how you can best demonstrate your motivation and your most relevant skills/experience.
Have you taken an existing process and used your own creativity to make it better? Can you describe what you learnt?
If you have written a draft application for any type of opportunity, our team can provide personalised practical tips and advice to help you better understand how recruiters will shortlist your application, and how you can best demonstrate your motivation and your most relevant skills / experience.