Graduate Summer School

Our Graduate Summer School is held in June and July. Organised by the Brighton Graduate Association (BGA), the Careers Service, beepurple and the university’s Information Services, its aim is to provide final year students with that extra boost before facing potential employers.

The dates for the 2012 events are still to be confirmed.

The 2011 event

Below is the programme of events for our successful 2011 Graduate Summer School. 

Brush up on your IT skills

The programme also included the following four courses to equip graduates with the computer skills to work confidently and competently.

UltraViolet: beepurple’s Intensive Business Start-Up Summer Course

UltraViolet is beepurple’s Intensive Business Start-Up Course aimed at final years and graduates. Over the course of five days, course attendees develop their entrepreneurial skills and also learn how to become self-employed and more enterprising – something which they may not have covered during their degree.

Transform Your Life – three-day employability course

We offered 16 final year students the chance to attend this 3 day employability course.  The course was aimed at anyone who hadn’t landed the job they were hoping for yet or were looking to improve their employability and interview skills.

The Graduate Market – led by Milkround.com

A presentation about how you can break into the graduate jobs market including a snapshot of what's happening now.

Using Social Media to Find a Job

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.....you probably already use social media to catch up with your peers and arrange a night out, but are you using it effectively for finding a job?

Excel Essential Skills 2010

Use MS Excel 2010 efficiently to record, analyse and present data. This session assumed basic prior knowledge of Excel; familiarity with entering, editing and deleting data in an Excel worksheet.

Word 2010 essential skills

Use MS Word 2010 efficiently to prepare reports and other long documents. This course assumed basic prior knowledge of Word; familiarity with creating a Word document (e.g. an essay).

Email for work essential skills

Use email in the workplace. This session assumed basic prior knowledge of using email (for example Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or similar)

Successful presentation skills with PowerPoint 2010

Do you get nervous doing presentations? Would you like to become more compelling and confident? This workshop showed how to present a fabulous talk, pitch or presentation, without the use of notes. It will also enabled attendees to deliver a presentation using MS PowerPoint 2010.

Mock Assessment Centre Day

Do you want to get ahead of the crowd when it comes to job interview practice? Want to be confident with your performance at assessment centres? Put yourself in a strong position when you go to your first job interview or assessment centre.

Virtual Careers Fair, July 2011

The Careers Centre ran a Virtual Careers Fair in collaboration with the University of Sussex from 11 - 31 July.  Once inside the Fair attendees found a wide range of local, regional and national employers who were promoting their organisations - and all the career and employment opportunities offered by them - in detail. Find out more about the Virtual Careers Fair.