Career Fairs are an excellent way to meet and network with employers. You can check when the next Career Fairs are taking place on Handshake.

To help you to prepare for the fair, you might find it helpful to take at look at our “Prepare for the Fair” interactive guide.

With research indicating up to 70 percent of jobs aren’t advertised it’s essential to develop your networking skills. This session aims to help you learn how to build new relationships to expand your network of professional contacts both online and in person.

For the latest events, please check Handshake. 

LinkedIn events - including LinkedIn webinars and LinkedIn Lab.

Negotiation is the art of getting what you want and keeping everyone else happy at the same time. This workshop will cover the skills and psychology of successful negotiating and provide you with a set of principles that will work not just between you and your house mates but in the business world too.

For the latest events, please check Handshake. 

This Effective Networking Guide introduces how networking works, how it can help you in your job hunt, how to build a list of contacts and how to make use of them.

My Career Zone Digital has lots of resources, including videos, articles, and courses to help you with networking. For example:

• Conversation starters cheat sheet for networking
• How can networking help my job search?
• Overcoming your fear of networking

Staring a new role can be exciting, intimidating and everything inbetween. This SWAY will guide you through some of the ways in which you might start to prepare for a new job, empowering you to be your 'best professional self'.

Career Zone Blog posts on networking.

 Our podcast covers a range of careers topics such as:

• How can I network with employers without meeting face to face?
• Preparing for career fairs and employer events

LinkedIn: This is a great platform to start building contacts from. It is a professional network which gives you access to thousands of contacts. Make sure you spend some time building a strong LinkedIn profile, just as you would with your CV.

If you need any further help or advice with LinkedIn sign up to one of our LinkedIn skills sessions on Handshake. You can also look at our LinkedIn guide here. 

Handshake Community – you can search for and message alumni within Handshake. Filtering available by course, employer and organisation.

Information on Peer Messaging in Handshake.

The Career Mentor Scheme is a powerful way to increase your confidence and make more informed choices about your career journey.  The scheme will match you with an experienced professional where you can explore your profession of interest and receive helpful careers advice and guidance, over a 6 month period. 

The Ask An Alum (Careers Q&A) is a short-term way to connect with University of Exeter alumni to ask your careers-related questions. By filling in our quick and easy application form, you can be introduced to alumni working in your field of interest…whatever that may be at the time of applying. 

Professionalism and joining the workplace - Join Rachel Sloan for this webinar on professionalism. 

Making the most out of your LinkedIn profile - 5 top tips to help you boost your LinkedIn Profile

If you would like some advice about networking (whether in-person or virtually via LinkedIn) our team can help. You can contact us via the Live Chat icon at the bottom of this page, or you can phone us on +44(0)1392 724493 (all campuses). For any other enquiries please email careers@exeter.ac.uk.