Careers Fest Activities

Brand Awareness are one of our most popular types of event at Loughborough University. They are a great opportunity to meet with high numbers of students on an individual basis, in an informal setting.

These activities are particularly useful for companies wishing to raise their profile as a recruiter amongst a wider student body.

Concepts that have been popular by attracting high volumes of students, and resulted in successful outcomes for employers are:

• Coffee carts, handing out free hot drinks.
• Food carts, such as waffles, popcorn machines or sweets.
• Interactive games, such as a ‘spin the wheel’ where students could win a gift voucher or merchandise from your organisation.

The Diversity and Inclusion Team are hosting a range of Employer Panel Sessions this academic year, which will each focus on a different topic. Employers will have the opportunity to offer an insight into their organisation, on a panel of diverse employees with varying grades/roles to our students.

• Talk about your journey and how you got to the position from university to work or equivalent (good and bad).
• Offering an introduction to your organisation, along with tips and advice on how to be successful during application process.
• Realities of being part of an underrepresented group in the world of work.
• Opportunities for progression/where the role can take you.
• Q&A.
• Networking with students.

Dates: TBC

If you wish to get involved, please contact future.talent@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk for further information.

The Early Futures Team run a series of workshops as part of Kickstart Your Career and Elevate Your Prospects bootcamp, and are keen to share up-to-date employability and recruitment information with our students. There will be opportunities for employers to:

• Share top tips for the recruitment process (CVs, Cover Letters, Personal Branding and Interviews and Assessment Centres)
• Support our students with networking skills during in-person events.
• Share your experience or personal story about how you successfully used /developed networking skills to secure an opportunity.
• Offer an introduction to your organisation and share about what you are looking for during careers fairs. 
• Share tips about what you are looking for in CVs and during Interviews. 
• Personal Branding.

For more information, please email Personalbest@lboro.ac.uk 

Target Connect

Target Connect is our exclusive advertising portal for Loughborough cohorts. This will give you complete control to advertise the student work opportunities or graduate roles, set preferred deadlines, view applications, shortlist candidates and manage interviews in the way that fits with your timescales best.

You can register onto Target Connect for free. Once you have completed the registration this will be manually validated after which you will be able to log on and start the process of advertising.

If you have any issues with the platform or registering, then please contact the team that manage this platform at Employer.Vacancies@lboro.ac.uk

Target Emails

Target emails provide Employers with the opportunity to send information detailing vacancies and graduate recruitment initiatives directly to our students. This is a great way to target specific groups of students via the University email account.

We can target students by School – one or more – and by year group.  Prices vary depending on your selection. Please contact employer.services@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk to find out more.

The University takes its responsibility for the environment seriously and understands the need to respond to the challenges we face globally around issues such as climate change, human wellbeing, food, water and energy security.

Please help us to respond to these challenges by making greener choices when it comes to your event. This can be achieved by:

• Bring a reusable travel cup and a water bottle with you. We have plenty of water fountains and café’s around campus for you to refill your cup.
• Avoiding single-use plastics in giveaways/merchandise.
• Reduce waste by using reusable resources that can be used at other events.
• Using public transport when visiting the University. A train station is situated 10 minutes away from the university, and buses run regularly onto campus.
• Avoid food items that are individually wrapped in plastic. Instead, bring items in recyclable or re-useable packaging.
• Reduce carbon emissions by phasing out merchandise made from textiles, like tote bags.
• Favour products manufactured from recycled materials rather than virgin material.