If you’re looking for work experience within the creative industries, career advice and guidance, are interested in working as a freelancer or starting your own business, or need help with your portfolio, CV or cover letter – WSA Careers Week is for you!
We’ve worked in partnership with the University’s Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise team to bring you our events, workshops and webinars.
- Time: 11.00 – 11.30
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: WSA 63G South / T3005 (Sem Rm 8) and T3007 (Sem Rm 9)
Looking for opportunities to improve your CV, strengthen your skills or maybe even just to earn some extra cash? Find out how the Work Experience Programmes run by Careers can help.
- Time: 12.00- 13.00
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: Online
Come and join Richard, an experienced teacher and leader in schools, to hear about teaching as a career and what you need to consider when applying for teacher training. Whether you are already thinking of teaching as a potential career, or if you just want to find out about any opportunities there may be in teaching, this information session will help you make your own mind up.
- Time: 13.00 – 15.00
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
Our Work Experience 1:1 offers you the opportunity for a 10-minute conversation with a Work Experience Adviser to discuss your options, help support you in finding roles or answer any questions you may have about our programmes These appointments will be available to book one week prior to the event.
- Time: 12.00 – 14.00
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
Come along to our drop-in to ask us anything career-related, be it: understanding your options, working work or experience, making successful applications, or preparing for an interview.
- Time: 14.00- 15.00
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: WSA 63A East / 2001 Lecture Theatre B
Postgraduate study can be regarded as a course, degree or further study programme someone undertakes after the completion of a bachelor’s degree. This interactive 45-minute workshop will explore different types of postgraduate study options and offer an insight into what is involved.
- Time: 15.00 – 16.00
- Date: Monday 19 February
- Location: Online
Are you thinking about your future and could teaching be the career for you? Come and join Richard, an experienced teacher and leader in schools, to hear about teaching as a career and what you need to consider when applying for teacher training. Richard, the Explore Teaching Adviser for the University of Southampton, will be sharing information about the steps a non-UK candidate would need to take to become a qualified teacher in England.
- Time: 12.00 – 14.00
- Date: Tuesday 20 February
- Location: WSA 63A East / 2001 Lecture Theatre B and on-line
A webinar workshop for students with a disability, specific learning differences such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, or long-term health conditions, who have disclosed to the University.
- Time: 12.00 – 14.00
- Date: Tuesday 20 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
Come along to our drop-in to ask us anything career related, be it: understanding your options, working work or experience, making successful applications, or preparing for interview.
- Time: 12.00 – 13.00
- Date: Tuesday 20 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
An interactive workshop helping you to prepare for interviews, to reflect on and perfect your interview technique.
- Time: 13.00 – 14.00
- Date: Tuesday 20 February
- Location: WSA 63A East / 3023 – Harvard Lecture Theatre
A 45-minute interactive in-person workshop, exploring how to use a job description to target your CV for a specific role, identify and highlight your relevant skills effectively.
- Time: 13.00 – 14.00
- Date: Tuesday 20 February
- Location: Careers Pod, WSA West Building
The opportunity for a 15-minute conversation with one of our advisers to answer any quick career queries:
- Feedback on a document e.g, CV, cover letter (please ensure you upload a copy of your document when booking)
- Career options/planning and next steps.
- Interview/Assessment Centre/Online Test preparation.
- Postgraduate study.
And much more…
- Time: 11.00 – 12.00
- Date: Wednesday 21 February
- Location: WSA 63L West / 1011 – West Side Lecture Theatre
A 45-minute interactive in-person workshop, exploring how to make, present, share and talk though your portfolio. Hosted by: Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise Staff member: Karen Haynes, Career Consultant
- Time: 10.00 – 15.00
- Date: Wednesday 21 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
CV Support Appointments are a 15 minute conversation with one of our Careers Support Assistants about your CV. Book to discuss your CV and for feedback on its content and presentation. These appointments will be available to book one week prior to the event.
- Time: 15.00 – 17.00
- Date: Wednesday 21 February
- Location: The Student Enterprise Junction, Sir James Matthews building (SJM), Guildhall Square, Southampton City Centre
Could you be a creative freelancer? Freelancers are self-employed professionals who work in a range of professions from writers, filmmakers, and photographers to designers and artists. For many, freelancing is a full-time business, but for others, it’s about turning your creative passion into a side hustle, earning extra money alongside a day job or studies.
- Time: 11.00 – 12.00
- Date: Thursday 22 February
- Location: WSA 63A East / 3023 – Harvard Lecture Theatre
This 45-minute interactive webinar will support you in exploring the process of getting started with your Career Planning, through: self-assessment, research, experimentation, decision making, job searching and the recruitment process. Hosted by: Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise
- Time: 12.00 – 13.00
- Date: Thursday 22 February
- Location: WSA 63A East / 3023 – Harvard Lecture Theatre
A 45-minute interactive in-person workshop, looking at how to create impact with your covering letter, presenting yourself positively and demonstrating your suitability for the role.
- Time: 12.00 – 14.00
- Date: Thursday 22 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
Come along to our drop-in to ask us anything career related, be it: understanding your options, working work or experience, making successful applications, or preparing for interview.
- Time: 16.00 – 17.00
- Date: Thursday 22 February
- Location: WSA 63A West Side Lecture Theatre A
Be inspired by our two speakers who are working in marketing. Hear about their own career journey, how they got into marketing, what it means to them, and how their degree prepared them for their work.
- Time: 11.00 – 12.00
- Date: Friday 23 February
- Location: WSA 63L West / 1011 – West Side Lecture Theatre
Mike Bastin – China Observer and Senior Teaching Fellow in Fashion Marketing and Branding (focus on Chinese fashion consumers and Chinese fashion designers) presents a Chinese labour market update. This session will give a valuable insight into what to expect if you are searching and applying for jobs in China soon.
- Time: 12.00 – 13.00
- Date: Friday 23 February
- Location: WSA 63L West / 1011 – West Side Lecture Theatre
Are you an international student who is interested in staying to work in the UK following your results? Would you like to know about the different types of work visas available? The Visa & Immigration Student Advice Service (VISAS Team) will deliver a practical and informative session to help you be aware of the current visa types, so that you can consider what is best for you.
- Time: 12.00 – 13.00
- Date: Friday 23 February
- Location: Mobile Careers Centre at WSA
Drop-in for a brief chat with Gemma O’Donoughue, Career Consultant (International) to get tips, advice and resources on finding work in China, recruitment agencies and job search sites to use.
- Time: 10.00 – 11.00
- Date: Friday 23 February
- Location: WSA 63L West / 1011 – West Side Lecture Theatre
With almost 1 billion users worldwide, LinkedIn is very much part of daily business behaviour. But what exactly is it, why should you be using it, and how can it help your career exploration and development?
- Time: 13.00 – 15.00
- Date: Friday 23 February
- Location: WSA Careers Pod, West Building
This in-person Visa Drop-in session will be an opportunity to ask questions about anything related to your Student visa or receive clarification about topics already discussed during the session at midday.