Graduate Career Skills

Graduate Career Skills Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM)
· Problem solving
· Planning change
· Decision making
· Leadership and
influencing skills
· Management in context

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
· Marketing essentials
· Marketing and the changing environment
· Understanding customer behaviour
· Marketing practice
· The tools of marketing

Further Marketing Skills
· Creative advertising
· Introduction to advertising, art direction and copy writing skills
· Creating a campaign

Project Management
· Definition and responsibilities
· Planning and implementation
· Development and review
· Evaluation

Understanding Finance
· Finance and the organisation
· Budgets
· Profit and loss
· Working with financial information

Presentation Training
· Achieving a professional image
· Planning, writing and delivering presentations Communication Skills
· Effective business
writing skills
· Verbal and non verbal communication skills
· Assertiveness

Event Management
& PR
· Planning and strategy
· Budgets and organisation
· Essential PR
· Press releases

Core Skills
· Meetings and minute preparation
· Time management
· Team building

Business Image
· Dress and style
· Body language

Professional
MS Office Skills
· MS Word
· MS PowerPoint
· MS Outlook
· MS Access
· MS Excel

Platform Skills
· Keyboarding
· Speed development
· Document layout
· Proof reading and accuracy

Graduates from this course can expect to earn between £19,000 and £27,000

Employment Workshops
· CV writing
· Covering letters
· Interview techniques
· Identifying and applying for jobs Employment Plus
· Introduction to select recruitment agencies
· One-to-one consultations
· Personal employment strategy