Applications essentials

Ensure you get yourself ready to apply with these sessions covering CVs, cover letters and other essentials.


How to write effective cover letters (online)

Starts: 9 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 9 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Remaining places: 39
What do employers expect to see in a cover letter? This session will explain the purpose of a cover letter, what to include and how to write effectively.

How to find and apply to part-time jobs (online)

Starts: 10 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 10 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Remaining places: 21
Part-time work is an excellent way to gain work experience, enhance your CV and support yourself financially during your studies or allow you to work whilst managing other commitments or personal needs. This seminar will look at why you may choose to do part-time work, how LSE Careers can help and address some key questions around rules, regulations and how to find part-time work opportunities. We will also discuss how you can make effective applications

Graduate Schemes and Graduate Jobs: Understanding the Job Market (Undergraduates)

Starts: 13 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 13 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Clement House, Aldwych, CLM.4.02
Remaining places: 99
This workshop will help graduates understand their employment options after their studies and discover strategies to help you find employment opportunities.

Introduction to a career in law for non-law students

Starts: 13 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
Finishes: 13 Oct 2025, 4:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Parish Hall, Sheffield Street, LG.03
Remaining places: 0
Interested in finding out more about qualifying and working as a lawyer and not studying the subject? Whether you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate, this session is for students from any degree discipline.

How to Manage your Job Search as a Final Year Student (UG)

Starts: 14 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
Finishes: 14 Oct 2025, 4:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Old Building, Houghton Street, OLD.4.10
Remaining places: 82
This session for final year undergraduate students will highlight the importance of knowing your key drives, values and strengths, explain how to build a proactive search strategy using different methods, while reflecting on the importance of being resilient.

Employer presentation: Introduction to AlphaSights - Exploring Commercial Careers

Starts: 14 Oct 2025, 6:00 pm
Finishes: 14 Oct 2025, 8:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Centre Building, Houghton Street, CBG.2.06
Remaining places: 39
Are you looking for a fast-paced commercial position where you can drive results from day one, but are unsure which role offers real responsibility and growth? Join our Introduction to AlphaSights session with a Vice President at AlphaSights to get an insight into our industry and the heights to which a commercial career can take you.

How to Write Effective Cover Letters (UG)

Starts: 15 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
Finishes: 15 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Clement House, Aldwych, CLM 3.02
Remaining places: 82
What do employers expect to see in a cover letter? This session will explain the purpose of a cover letter, what to include and how to write effectively.

Law: how to write for clients

Starts: 15 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 15 Oct 2025, 3:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Cheng Kin Ku Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, CKK.LG.09 Alumni Theatre
Learn and practice how you should change your writing style for different clients and tasks as a lawyer

Law: An introduction to Commercial Awareness

Starts: 16 Oct 2025, 11:00 am
Finishes: 16 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Clement House, Aldwych, CLM.5.02
Remaining places: 97
Learn what is really being tested when you are told that you need to be 'commercially aware'

How to Write Effective Cover Letters (UG)

Starts: 16 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 16 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Centre Building, Houghton Street, CBG.1.03
Remaining places: 59
What do employers expect to see in a cover letter? This session will explain the purpose of a cover letter, what to include and how to write effectively.


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