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Boost your LinkedIn Profile

Sarah Santacroce

This interactive workshop will help you make sure your online persona makes an impact and gets you the job! We will cover the following:

• How do recruiters use LinkedIn?
• Understanding keywords
• 8 Steps to create a profile that makes your story shine, stand out & get you hired
• Two approaches to job searching: passive or proactive
• LinkedIn Premium – is it worth it?

Come prepared to share your own LinkedIn profile and get some hands-on tips from our trainer.

Sarah Santacroce is a LinkedIn expert with over a decade of experience on this platform. Universities (for example EPFL Switzerland, HEC Paris, IMD, etc), as well as local & global companies & associations, hire her to train their students or employees about LinkedIn. Sarah lives and works in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland and has helped hundreds of clients from all over the world breathe life into their LinkedIn profiles.

Ace your job interview

Eleanor Saunders

This session will equip you with the tools and knowhow to go forward with confidence into the interviews that mark the start of your career. Together we will learn:

• How to present yourself verbally
• Tools to unlock different question types
• Techniques for building excellent responses
• Hands on practice in our virtual rooms
• Interview simulation and feedback

You will leave the session with a better understanding of how to promote yourself honestly, successfully, and with personal flair.

Eleanor Saunders is a communications specialist, through coaching, facilitating and skills training. She is also active in creating and improving international programmes in innovation and education. Her practice is global, covering individual clients as well as corporations, universities, and consortia. Those who she supports thrive and develop towards their full potential, with the ability to consciously share talents with the world.

Network like a pro

David White

This session will help you develop the mindset, skillset and toolset to become a successful networker, so you can make the most of working a room and enjoy it at the same time. Session objectives:

• Learn how to research and prepare to attend conferences and events
• Understand how to make a positive first impression
• Know how to approach people, including those who are senior to you, with confidence
• Introduce yourself and your work effectively
• Know how to express interest in working with someone and avoid common pitfalls
• Be able to follow up, develop the relationship and stay in touch long-term
• Understand how to use your LinkedIn profile as a networking tool

David White specialises in coaching, communication skills, impact and influence, management and leadership, presentation skills, project management, sales and writing skills. He holds a degree in English and American literature and he has held senior level roles at companies including Aspen Communications and JP Morgan. David is a certified DISC trainer and was awarded best trainer, lifetime achievement and business development awards by the Reed Training Awards.

PhD: A world of opportunities

Alina Congreve

Perhaps you don’t want the EIT Labelled Master to mark the end of your time at university, but you’re feeling unsure about what happens next. If you want to continue your postgraduate studies, this is the workshop for you! You will learn about the next steps to take and see the varied career paths that a PhD can offer you.

• How to start your academic career – finding the right PhD
• Jargon-busting job titles – what is an associate professor or a research associate?
• How to maximise your chances of an academic position after a PhD
• So what else can I do with a PhD? Opportunities inside and outside university

Dr Alina Congreve has worked as a lecturer and principal lecturer at several universities including the London School of Economics, University College London, Reading University and Hertfordshire. At Hertfordshire University she led the MSc in Sustainable Planning. In 2018-19 she worked as PhD programme manager at Climate KIC, leading the evaluation and redesign of the PhD programme across Europe. She has also worked at the think tank Centre for Cities and for the UK Green Building Council. She holds an MSc from UCL and PhD from King’s College London.