Events for employers

Throughout the year we host a variety of engaging careers events that bring together employers from all industries with our diverse and talented students and graduates. We will work with you to understand your recruitment needs and recommend the recruitment activities that will drive the most value to your business. In light of the current COVID-19 restrictions, we’ve updated our events and made them available virtually, to ensure that our students and employers can still connect. As an employer, you can get involved in a variety of events including:

Careers fairs
Attending a careers fair is a great way to engage with our students to promote your graduate, placement or work experience roles. Our fairs are currently running in a virtual format; you will be given an online employer booth to post a profile and information about your organisation, your schedule for the event and opportunities that are available in your business. You can participate in live group sessions and one-to-one appointments with students. This is an excellent opportunity to spot future talent for your business.
Assessment Centre Experience
Our multi-award winning Assessment Centre Experience (ACE) takes over 3,000 students through the typical graduate assessment centre process. We invite employers to support the event by acting as assessors for the mock interviews and presentations. It’s a great opportunity for employers to network with our students in a professional environment.
ACE received critical acclaim at the 2018 Institute of Student Employer Awards in London, by winning the ‘Best Preparation for Work: Single Initiative Award’, in recognition of the hugely successful assessment simulation.
Employer presentations
Delivering a short presentation to a targeted group of students can be very effective in raising your organisations profile with future talent from a particular area of study. You can either deliver a short presentation followed by a question and answer session or pre-record a short presentation that can then be posted on relevant course webpages or showcased to students in our ‘Explore Careers In’ themed weeks.
Instagram takeovers
Taking over our Instagram page gives you exposure to over 1,800 of our students. We’ll dedicate our channel to you, with up to 15 stories posted throughout the day, and content posted that will stay on our channel for students to view at any time. You can also host a live question and answer session with our students through the channel. We have successfully delivered a number of Instagram events and we will guide you through the process.
Assessed projects and competitions
Our students can help you solve real life issues that your business or sector is facing through assessed projects or as part of a competition. We’ll introduce you to our academic colleagues who will work with you to create the project or competition. This is very effective at bringing fresh thinking into your business and helping you to spot future talent.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The Virtual Graduate and Employment Fair - Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00 to 16:00

This popular event reaches out to over 25,000 students and is open to all disciplines and year groups with an emphasis on Graduate roles, 12 month Placements and Work Experience opportunities. This event is the ideal place for employers to: Promote your brand, your jobs and opportunities and, network with high quality students and graduates in one place. Each student brings core transferable skills, fresh ideas and enthusiasm to your workplace. Click here to learn more about our Schools-of-study. This event is free to attend!

Participating in the virtual fair will enable you to engage with our students as follows:

Participate in up to five 30-minute group meetings, which can accommodate up to 50 students via Handshake or your own video conferencing.
Host 10-minute 1:1 meetings with students, hosted by up to 15 representatives.
Manage your schedule for the event.

An Instagram takeover seemed like the perfect opportunity to deliver both careers content as well as giving students the opportunity to have a dialogue with us and provide a friendly face to our brand. The preparation and delivery couldn’t be simpler. The university gathered around 25 questions asked in advance by students so we could plan, sign off and film the majority of our responses. We also received a brilliant report, post-event, giving a breakdown of how our content was received, for us to benchmark future takeover events with. The university did the majority of the heavy lifting work so we could just supply the content. I can’t recommend this format for student engagement enough. This has kick-started a whole new strand of careers engagement for us as a result.

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