PG Skills: Commercial awareness - the know-how that gets you hired

Hailed by a previous attendee as “the most useful workshop I have been to during my degree”, this interactive session is back by popular demand.

Learn how to apply your research skills to investigating sectors of work that interest you (both academia and industry), researching companies and organisations, and use this to stand out in your job applications and interviews.

To access this webinar, please enrol on the PG Skills Canvas site. The webinar will be available in the Conferences section. If you have any problems joining, please contact careersenquiries@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Event objectives

This workshop aims to help you:

• Define what commercial awareness is and how to develop it
• Enhance your commercial awareness by exploring the political, economic, socio-cultural and technological factors affecting your sector/s of interest
• Recognise how this can benefit you in the recruitment process 
• Apply your commercial awareness to strengthen your job applications and interview answers