Careers events
Accelerate your employability! This list details events that are run by your Careers Network team and range from Mock Assessment Centres to entrepreneurial skills and from Finalist Futures to Student Success Academy. Details below provide the date, time and location of each event. Some may require booking onto which can be done via logging into Target Connect and viewing the Events calendar.
Week commencing 2nd February
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East Midlands Conversations: Time to talk about mental health and your career journey
This online event is being offered as part of an East Midlands collaboration with other local university Employability and Careers Services, offering tailored events and opportunities to those with disabilities.
03-Feb-2026
16:00 - 17:15
Finalist Futures: One Step Closer
Come along at 6.15pm prompt to join us and to find out how we can help you progress your career planning as you approach graduation. Participants will receive a hot meal at the end of the event.
03-Feb-2026
18:15 - 20:00
Week commencing 9th February
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Feeling like your to-do list is never-ending? Need a boost of motivation or just a free breakfast? Join us for our weekly Breakfast Study Cafes.
10-Feb-2026
08:00 - 11:00
Finalist Futures: Supercharge Your Career
You will all be in different positions as you start your final year. You may not have done a placement year and may be baffled by the recruitment process or need to improve your application or interview technique. You may have done a placement but are now reconsidering your options. You may be confused as to what options are open to you, where to look for opportunities, what career planning actually is and how to get started with it! Whatever your situation, we can help.
10-Feb-2026
13:00 - 14:00
Dissertation Writing Retreat: Business School
Join us for a structured, supportive dissertation writing retreat designed to help you make meaningful progress. Whether you’re struggling to get started, trying to stay focused, or looking to build a consistent writing routine, this session gives you the tools and the time to do it.
11-Feb-2026
13:00 - 16:30
Dissertation Writing Retreat: School of Science
Join us for a structured, supportive dissertation writing retreat designed to help you make meaningful progress. Whether you’re struggling to get started, trying to stay focused, or looking to build a consistent writing routine, this session gives you the tools and the time to do it.
11-Feb-2026
13:00 - 16:30
In person Mock Assessment Centre
Delivered by the Careers Network and staff from a range of top companies, you'll hear first-hand what to expect and learn how to prepare effectively.
Join us in person and gain as much practice as you can before your first real assessment centre.
12-Feb-2026
18:00 - 20:00
Week commencing 16th February
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Project Writing Retreat: Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Join us for a structured, supportive project writing retreat designed to help you make meaningful progress. Whether you’re struggling to get started, trying to stay focused, or looking to build a consistent writing routine, this session gives you the tools and the time to do it.
16-Feb-2026, 10:00 - 13:30
A wide range of employer stands will be in attendance for you to speak to, promoting graduate, internship, placement, vacation and volunteering opportunities within their organisations.
Tuesday 17 February, 11am-4pm in the Sir David Wallace Sports Hall.
Dissertation Writing Retreat: School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Join us for a structured, supportive dissertation writing retreat designed to help you make meaningful progress. Whether you’re struggling to get started, trying to stay focused, or looking to build a consistent writing routine, this session gives you the tools and the time to do it.
18-Feb-2026
10:00-13:30
Week commencing 23rd February
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Project Writing Retreat: Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Join us for a structured, supportive project writing retreat designed to help you make meaningful progress. Whether you’re struggling to get started, trying to stay focused, or looking to build a consistent writing routine, this session gives you the tools and the time to do it.
23-Feb-2026
10:00 - 13:30
Feeling like your to-do list is never-ending? Need a boost of motivation or just a free breakfast? Join us for our weekly Breakfast Study Cafes.
24-Feb-2026
08:00 - 11:00
Early Futures: From Potential to Placement
This session focuses on helping you move from potential to placement. You’ll gain practical advice, explore key strategies, and learn how to take confident next steps in your placement journey, with support available throughout. We will also be sharing live placement vacancies during the session. This session will take place on MS Teams from 1pm-2pm, with the option for an individual call after the session finishes.
24-Feb-2026
13:00 - 14:00
Virtual Mock Assessment Centre
Delivered by the Careers Network and staff from a range of top companies, you'll hear first-hand what to expect and learn how to prepare effectively for an assessment centre. Gain as much practice as you can before the real thing.
24-Feb-2026
18:00 - 19:45
Master's Futures: How to Create a Postgraduate Style CV
Find out how to create a Postgraduate Style CV that makes you stand out from the crowd!
25-Feb-2026
12:00 - 13:00
How can you make a difference and help shape the future of our food system? How do we talk about environmental problems without shouting over each other? Welcome to a fair, open discussion space where students can disagree, change their minds, and explore complexity. You’ll take part in a Jubilee-style debate game about factory farming where you’ll challenge dominant narratives grapple with the real environmental and justice impacts of factory farming. You’ll explore how climate breakdown, inequality, and power are embedded in the global food system through science, evidence and vital perspectives.
25-Feb-2026
13:00 - 14:30