Presenting Your Skills to Non-Academic Recruiters: CVs and Application Forms

*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 what makes a CV stand out for all types of recruiter
• Evaluate examples of non-academic CVs and learn how to communicate your evidence in non-academic CV format
• Examine common types of questions found on job application forms and consider strategies to answer them
• Begin the process of identifying specific personal evidence for role ‘competencies’ and practice how you might sell this evidence in a written application
• Be ‘signposted’ to additional resources and personal support relating to job applications in the UK and globally.