UCL School of Management

Pre-arrival Careers Programme Finding Your Future 2024: Career Planning and Understanding the UK Job Market

Date

Wednesday, 14 August 2024
12:45 – 14:15
Description

This is part of the pre-arrival careers programme for offer holders joining us this autumn.

Reflecting and developing self- awareness; together with having a strategy for succeeding in your career goals are essential parts of the job research and application process.

Understanding yourself, your values and strengths will result in focused opportunity searching and high quality, stand out applications.

In this session we will consider your personal career priorities and explore a range of approaches to achieving them over the next academic year. In addition we will look at the UK Graduate Job Market and how to plan your time for engaging with opportunities at different stages of your course.

This virtual session will cover a variety of insights that will be valuable tools for your job applications after graduating.

At the end of this session, you will be able to:
1. Develop a strategic plan for your career and understand how to succeed. What does success look like for you?
2. Understand yourself, your values, and strengths, and how they will help you create focused, high-quality, and standout applications.
3. Approach your career goals and priorities, survey the UK graduate job market, and determine the best time to engage with the application and recruitment process.

Register your place

important information to book your place on the session

To book your place on events or 1:1 appointments, you must first register as alumni on the MyUCLCareers platform

To register, please complete the ‘About You’ registration form ensuring that you: 

  • Use the full name that you used to enrol on your programme at UCL
  • Enter a personal email address that we can contact you on
  • For ‘Subject’, select the UCL programme that you will be starting in September
  • For ‘Department’, select ‘UCL School of Management’ (near the bottom of the list)
  • For ‘Graduation date’ enter any date in September 2025
  • Enter your Student Number (SN), which you will have received from the School of Management and can be found in your application information. Please ensure that your student number is entered correctly on the registration form, as any forms without a valid student number will automatically be rejected.

You will then receive instructions on how to log in to your new account.

Please note: it will not be possible to access any events or 1:1 appointments without first registering on MyUCLCareers.

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Last updated Tuesday, 2 July 2024