Your research career has equipped you with experience and employability skills of great value to sectors beyond academia – but how do we translate these into strong job applications? This online session will explore tools for identifying your professional skills, and outline how to present these in language employers in industry and wider sectors want to hear.

This session will focus on applications for positions beyond academia only.

Session objectives:

• Provide an overview of the desired employability skills sought by employers outside of academia
• Introduce tools and exercises for identifying your existing skills and experience
• Demonstrate examples of how to translate research experience into language for job applications outside of academia e.g. for CVs, covers letters, interviews