Prepare to succeed: post-CareersFest workshop series 18-28 November 2025
Join any or all of our skill-building online workshop series to help you get ready to apply for upcoming opportunities and show your full potential to employers. Following the chance to meet employers at CareersFest 2025 (3-14 November), you can explore how to build your skills and prepare to succeed. Learn how to make connections with confidence (Week 1) and develop the practical skills you need to successfully apply for jobs, graduate schemes and other opportunities (Week 2).
Week 1: Connect with confidence
These sessions are all about making meaningful connections and presenting yourself with confidence. We’ll help you go from networking woe to networking pro, build a standout LinkedIn profile, and sharpen your job search strategy:
- Network woe to network pro – Tuesday 18 November 2025, 12:00 – 13:15
- Unlock your career potential with LinkedIn - Wednesday 19 November 2025, 12:30 – 13:45
- Job search strategy – Thursday 20 November 2025, 12:45 – 14:00
Week 2: Showcase your strengths
These sessions tackle common career hurdles head-on and are packed with practical advice and fresh strategies to craft a winning CV, master interviews, navigate roadblocks and use GenAI to supercharge your career planning:
- Navigating career roadblocks – Tuesday 25 November 2025, 12:00 – 13:15
- From CV miss to CV hit - Wednesday 26 November 2025, 12:30 – 13:45
- Curb your interview nerves – Thursday 27 November 2025, 12:45 – 14:00
- GenAI: Level up your career - Friday 28 November 2025, 12:00 – 13:15
Click on the session titles above to find out more and to book your place.
CareersFest 3-14 November 2025
Register now for CareersFest 2025, a fortnight of online careers events requested by you, designed for you. Whatever your study stage, background or differences, you’ll get insider info on a range of sectors, roles and how to achieve your goals. This year the event includes ‘Explore the job sectors’ and ‘Beat the barriers’ employer panel sessions; and ‘Ask alumni’ discussions with OU graduates.
