Careers workshops

There are a range of workshops in both your faculties and The ClockTower that can support you in developing your employability skills and assist you to secure employment. We recommend you attend more than one workshop.

Visit Auckland CareerHub for the workshop schedule.

We have grouped workshops below so you can best identify a suite of workshops to best suit your needs:

Finding the job - workshops to help you:

• Marketing yourself, creating your CV
  
  Before the workshop:

  • Research CV content online.

  • Develop and electronic draft.

  • Attend a workshop - bring your laptop, or if you don't have one, we have a limited number of Ipads you can use to refine and develop it.

  • Get it checked again at a CV drop-in session, 10-11am daily in Room 108, The ClockTower.

• Mastering job interviews
  
  Before the workshop:

  • Read about interviews.

  • Try out your interview technique using InterviewStream.

  • You can get feedback about how you did in the 108 ClockTower daily drop-in 10am-12pm.

Applying for and securing the job - workshops to help you:

• The Art of networking
  How and why to network to identify and secure new opportunities.
• Job search strategies
  What to do and developing a marketing strategy and plan.
• Personal branding
  Identify who you are where do you fit and how do you promote yourself.
• Psychometric testing
  What are they and what do they mean.

• Our workshops are usually 1 hour long and we expect you to attend the whole workshop. Out of respect to other students, we don't allow students to enter the workshop after quarter past the hour.

If you are unable to attend one of our workshops, but would like careers assistance, please let us know.

Contact Career Development and Employment Services

• What students say about our workshops

Last updated 30 May 2013.