 Hello and welcome to the Surrasse University of London Open Day. My name is Luke Brockway and I'm going to be talking you through how Surrasse Careers can help you during your time here. So Surrasse Careers offers support from day one to after you graduate and in fact we're one of the very few career services that offer support for the entirety of your post-surrasse time and we offer support with your undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral researcher and we you'll see here our career thinking model and this is how we target support at the groups that most need our help. You will find yourselves during your time at Surrasse in one of the three categories you see before me discover and decide plan and do apply and succeed and we target our career interventions based on these sections. So if you find yourself in discover and decide I mean you're not quite sure what you want to do for a career we could recommend a one-to-one appointment to talk through your options or attending a career fair to meet your priority of employers. Perhaps you find yourself in the plan and do stage when you already arrive you know what you want to do you just need to work out how to get there. You have some great online resources focused on this or you could talk through a professional set house and action plan and at some point during your time you will arrive at the apply and succeed section. This is when you are ready to apply and succeed at this point you can have your application checked by a careers professional and booking for a practice interview or we can tailor an interview based on your job description. This gives you the best chance of succeeding your application and you'll see that all these stages are supported by reflection and review and we recommend that after every career experience whether it's a one-to-one appointment or an event you reflect because that's where you learn and develop your career thinking. I'm now going to turn to talking through how we can help in a bit more detail. Anything careers related unsurprisingly. The first thing to note is extensive career resources we have including our workshop recordings as you can probably imagine we've been recording lots of online events over the last two years and they are all up on our online resources ready to access. Our career resources have a range of opportunities including options with degree sessions section one I particularly want to highlight. These are bespoke resources based on a degree so if you're studying anthropology you can find a suite of resources based on anthropology studying development the same and this ties in with our sector pages so if you're interested in working in charity or NGO in government and politics we again have resources bespoke resources based around those sectors. The resources page will also give you ideas to develop skills and experience and set out job hunting strategies so it's a way for you to really find out everything you need to know about your career before engaging in other activities such as coming in to have your CV cover letter or application checked. This is a great offer if you're applying for a part-time job or voluntary role or that graduate role you're after it's worth coming in and having a second pair of eyes check over your application cover letter to make sure it's as strong as it possibly can be. We also host one-to-one career discussions as I mentioned earlier these can be a help what should I do with my life kind of talk or I know what I want to do how do I get here whatever your issue come and talk to us or we can coach you through it help support you moving on to your next step and as I mentioned earlier once you're ready for that to apply and succeed we offer practice interviews so you can be best prepared when you go into that interview to succeed. We have a wide range of events and workshops as well we have lots of employer events and this can be from a career fair to an employer presentation to a workshop from the civil service explaining how to best pass the assessment center. We also have alumni panels opportunities to meet alums for one-on-one chats and workshops based on soft skills such as serian application checking commercial awareness or how to build resilience it's also worth highlighting here our mentoring program so us is a community and that includes our alumni so we want to make it as easy as possible for you to reach out and speak to an alumni we have an online platform where you can do this either enter into a formal mentoring relationship or to ask that one-off question like I'm about to apply for a job at your organization what's it like or what would make my application stand out. I have thousands of alumni on there and it's really just about us allowing you to easily reach the wealth of career knowledge that our alumni community have so thank you for listening I hope you enjoy the open day and I hope we see you soon.