# Career Essentials

**Source**: https://careers.ed.ac.uk/whats-on/career-essentials
**Parent**: https://careers.ed.ac.uk/

Alongside our digital resources our Career Essentials programme of live sessions and recorded content has options for you whatever stage you are at and however you want to engage.

Your University of Edinburgh login is required to access the content on this page.

### Career development workshops & events

Browse our programme of sessions this year, including:

- Getting started when you don’t know what to do
- Sessions on finding a part-time job, internship and graduate job
- Working in the UK – graduate jobs for international students
- Applications for postgraduate study – personal statement workshop
- Thinking about further study? (for Masters & PhD studies)
- Building Experience: more than just internships
- Getting started and making the most of LinkedIn
- CV workshop
- Changing career: making your experience count
- Why wasn’t my application successful?
- Graduating this year and not sure what to do?
- Bouncing back: how to move forward when things don’t go as planned

[Browse the programme & book your place](https://www.hub.ed.ac.uk/s/mycareerhub/events?page=1&studentSiteId=4&text=%23careeressentials)

[Catch up on recorded session](https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/101102631/1_meb1bkh6/)

### Career Spotlight

We also run a small series of workshops shining a spotlight on particular career areas. New upcoming sessions will be updated via MyCareerHub, but you can catch up on recorded sessions now via Media Hopper. Previous sessions have included:

- The creative industries
- Law
- Finance
- Management consultancy
- Nuclear medicine technology
- Architecture
- Patent and intellectual property law

[Browse the programme & book your place](https://www.hub.ed.ac.uk/s/mycareerhub/events?page=1&studentSiteId=4&text=career%20spotlight)

[Catch up on recorded sessions](https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Careers%2BService%253A%2BStudents%2Bchannel%2B%2B%2B%2528protected%2Baccess%2529/101102631)

### Top Tips

Watch our Top Tips videos on a range of essential topics to get started with your applications and career planning. All videos are hosted on Media Hopper.

[Getting started thinking about your career](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+-+When+you+dont+know+how+to+start+thinking+about+your+career/1_oo3hafmq/101102631)

[CVs](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+CVs/1_5lif5f5m/101102631)

[Cover letters](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+Cover+Letters/1_jo8ug86t/101102631)

[Job applications](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+Job+Applications/1_otbz9m1h/101102631)

[Interviews](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+Interviews/1_yjuksjac/101102631)

[Assessment centres](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+Assessment+Centres/1_4088jnrr/101102631)

[Psychometric tests](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+Psychometric+Tests+/1_buwh10at/101102631)

[Developing commercial awareness](https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Top+Tips+-+Developing+Commercial+Awareness/1_88g3yc42/101102631)

[Catch up on recorded sessions](https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/dedicated/101102631/1_meb1bkh6/1_u09wieon)

### Access our Career Essentials programme

You can find up-to-date information about our upcoming events by using #CareerEssentials in the Events tab on MyCareerHub. Our live events are normally updated before the beginning of each semester and you can access our recordings via Media Hopper all year round.

[Career Essentials Events on MyCareerHub](https://www.hub.ed.ac.uk/s/mycareerhub/events?page=1&studentSiteId=4&text=%23careeressentials "Click here to view upcoming events on MyCareerHub ")

[View recorded content on Media Hopper](https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Careers%2BService%253A%2BStudents%2Bchannel%2B%2B%2B%2528protected%2Baccess%2529/101102631 "Click here to view all of our recorded content on Media Hopper")

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This article was published on
2024-05-14