Key Information

Tutor: Careers Service Consultants
Course Level: 
Level 1
Course Credit: 1 credit

Dates

  • Thu 07 November 2024, 14:00-16:00, MS Teams
  • Thu 06 March 2025,  10:00-12:00, MS Teams
  • Thu 29 May 2025, 13:00-15:00, South Kensington Campus

Finding a job, whether that is within or outside academia, can take time and lot of effort. So how do you approach this task strategically? This workshop will help you to identify up to date resources and a range of methods to make your job-hunting as organised and diverse as possible.

This course is delivered by the Imperial Careers Service, who support all current PhD students with their careers and PhD graduates for up to three years after graduation. 

“ The most helpful aspect of this course was that it covered all the content that I need to prepare for job applications. Recommend for beginning job hunting.” PhD student attending this course 2023-24 

Course Information

You will be referred to two optional activities to complete before the course. These should take no more than 30 minutes. Completing the activities will enable you to get more out of attending the course.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course you will be better able to:

  • Identify the breadth of the PhD job market
  • Analyse skills gained from your PhD and formulate tailored statements to sell these to future employers
  • Develop a proactive strategy to hunt for jobs, including networking, online approaches and targeted speculative applications
  • Create and maintain your professional online profile
  • Know how to access further support from The Careers Service


How to Book

Please select a date and book on via Inkpath using your Imperial Single-Sign-On.