What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You

Finding part-time work

How to... 20 minute workshops• Writing CVs Finding part-time work• Writing cover letters• Getting work experience• Application forms

Many more! www.kcl.ac.uk/careers

Why Part-Time work?Money!

Make friends!Enhance your CV

Initiative, drive, team work, customer service, admin

skills, multi-tasking

Finding part-time work (cont.)

• Many leaflets and online resources:‘How to write a CV’‘Part-time work’‘Completing job application forms’‘Application letters’‘Interviews’

JobOnline: Hundreds of vacancies for King’s students at

your fingertips!

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobonline

On-Campus Vacancies

www.directtemping.com/register/kcl

Part-Time Work Fair

• Thursday 3rd Oct • Time: 11:30 to 14:30• Venue: Great Hall, Strand Campus• A great opportunity to meet employers & find

part time work• Help fund your studies, and get some crucial

work experience

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Generating ideas and inspiration

•Prospects Planner: www.prospects.ac.uk•Careers Service library•www.careers.lon.ac.uk/international

•Still lost? Talk to us!

Researching careers:Careers Tagged

www.careerstagged.co.uk

Researching industries, sectors and

organisations•Employer events (on & off campus)•How to... sessions (research your policy career/city job/career in law etc)• Library resources• Facebook pages & Twitter• Fairs: Careers Fair, Tech, Law, Pharmacy, Nursing etc.

Improving your employability skills

• Kings Professional Skills Programme• Other skills sessions• Join societies, volunteer, get a part-

time job• Get international, get involved!• Facebook & Twitter (commercial

awareness)• How to... Sessions (work experience)

Finding full-time work after you graduate

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What we can’t do

• Job matching service • Tell you what job you should do!• Proof-read CVs and application• Help with grammar and English

(English Language Centre)• Recommend specific employers or

recruitment agencies• Help or advice with visas (see

International Student Advisers)

Where we are

• Locations:–Strand (Macadam Building) –Guys (Henriette Raphael)

•Times: –Strand 09.30-17.00, Mon-Thur.–Guys Mon-Tue Afternoons

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Baz Luhrmann

Thank you!

www.kcl.ac.uk/careers