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Marketing Yourself to Non-Academic Recruiters: Cover Letters and Personal Statements

20 May 2024, 11:00 am–12:30 pm

A birds-eye view image of students sat on steps within University College London's Student Centre, Main Quad.

Sign up to this session to learn how to 'market' your researcher skills in a cover letter / personal statement.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Jana Dankovicova

*THIS EVENT IS FOR RESEARCH STUDENTS AND RESEARCH STAFF ONLY*

You will be emailed some resources that we will look at during the session in advance, so please check your email 3 hours before the session. Also, please make sure your environment makes is possible for you to talk during the workshop and that you have a mic working (the workshop is interactive)!

If you have any specific requirements in terms of attending this event that we need to be aware of in advance, please do get in touch as soon as possible to let us know how we can help.

Learning outcomes for this workshop:

  • Understand the core principles of effective self-marketing and how to structure this in cover letters or motivation statements in application forms
  • Gain an awareness of what recruiters look for as evidence that you are fully committed to the role / career and their organisation.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
As you join this virtual session, please open the exercise booklet below as we will be working through this during the session.