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Study UK: Preparing for work

Get ready by gaining career skills in self-awareness, employability support, job search strategies, and workplace culture, with Study UK’s online course.

Duration

3 weeks

Weekly study

4 hours

100% online

How it works

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Free

Navigate UK recruitment processes with ease and broaden your career prospects

Unlock your potential and kickstart a fulfilling career journey with this comprehensive course tailored for international students looking to join the UK job market.

Gain essential skills that not only make you job-ready but also prepare you to thrive in any professional environment.

Develop self-awareness and identify your key skills

The first part of this course taps into your sense of self to better understand your strengths and areas for growth. You’ll work through self-reflective exercises, such as skills audits and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis, to identify and develop the core competencies that make you stand out to potential employers.

By the end of this week, you’ll have a clear sense of your capabilities and how to leverage them effectively in your career path.

Build a strong personal brand and enhance your networking skills

Next, you’ll focus on building a professional identity that showcases your unique strengths and achievements.

You’ll be guided through creating an impactful LinkedIn profile, crafting memorable elevator pitches, and effectively using social media to expand your professional network.

By mastering these skills, you’ll be better positioned to make powerful first impressions and expand your career opportunities.

Navigate the recruitment process and excel in CV writing

Finally, you’ll wrap up this course by gaining a clearer understanding of the recruitment process, from crafting eye-catching CVs to tailoring cover letters for particular positions to acing application forms.

What’s more, you’ll also explore techniques for navigating your way through applicant tracking systems and preparing for various assessments and interviews.

Week 1
Career exploration week
- Welcome and introduction
  This week you'll join our Facebook Live event to meet your course facilitators. Plus, you'll take the career readiness analysis survey to see where you are on your employability journey. Let's get started.
- Unlocking your potential: skills and self-awareness
  This activity boosts self-awareness by helping identify your skills and strengths. You'll conduct a skills audit and SWOT analysis, learning to confidently showcase your abilities to employers.
- Motivation, mindset and me
  This activity focuses on identifying your career motivators and values. You’ll learn to build a growth mindset, articulate what job satisfaction means to you, and effectively demonstrate your motivation to employers.
- Career action planning
  This activity covers career action planning, emphasising its importance for career progression. You'll learn how to create a career action plan, set career goals, and write SMART objectives to achieve them.
- Navigating university support
  Learn how to navigate UK university career services and access support effectively. You’ll become familiar with key terminology, manage your expectations, and understand available resources, helping you seek support confidently.
Week 2
Career catalyst week
- Mastering the job hunt
  This activity provides practical tools to help you create a job search plan, find opportunities and optimise your LinkedIn profile to access hidden job markets.
- The power of networking and your personal brand
  This activity demystifies networking for job hunting, covering its importance, how to start and where to network. It also focuses on building a personal brand and crafting an effective elevator pitch.
- CVs, cover letters and successful applications
  This activity helps you understand CV and cover letter content and structure, tailoring them for specific roles. It covers different CV types and offers practical tips on what to include in a successful job application.
- Navigating recruitment processes
  This activity explores recruitment stages for part-time work, placements and graduate jobs. It covers assessment centres, psychometric tests and interview question types, offering strategies for interview success.
Week 3
Workforce readiness week
- Work-ready essentials
  In this activity, you'll learn how to navigate the first few weeks of a new job. We'll cover onboarding tips, personal well-being, remote work, finding a work-life balance, workplace etiquette and company culture.
- Working across cultures
  This activity helps you build cultural fluency and effective communication skills for working in diverse environments, focusing on cross-cultural relationships and global business etiquette.
- Commercial awareness
  This activity enhances your commercial awareness by focusing on economic, industry, and market trends. You'll learn how to make informed decisions and demonstrate your commercial knowledge to potential employers.
- The future of work
  This activity explores the future of work in the digital age. Learn about AI's impact, new career paths and develop adaptability, creativity, and planning skills for a tech-driven, evolving job market.