Professional development skills

Focusing on skills and techniques that will support your job search and prepare you for the world of work, these sessions cover topics including networking, using LinkedIn, presentation skills.

Discover Banking & Finance: Introduction to career pathways in banking & finance

Starts: 2 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Finishes: 2 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, TBC, TBC
Remaining places: 117
Interested in finding out more about career pathways in the banking and finance sectors? Whether you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate, this session is for students from any degree discipline.

Professionals at LSE: Welcome drinks

Starts: 9 Oct 2025, 5:30 pm
Finishes: 9 Oct 2025, 7:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Centre Building, Houghton Street, Alumni Centre, Ground floor
Remaining places: 73
Part of our Professionals at LSE programme, an opportunity to meet other members of our working professional community

Professionals at LSE: Defining your personal brand and goals

Starts: 16 Oct 2025, 5:30 pm
Finishes: 16 Oct 2025, 7:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, LSE LIFE Workspace 2
Remaining places: 54
For our working professional community with 5+ years experience, Dr. Camille Koppen will lead this interactive session to help you to define your personal brand, impact, and goals.

How to make LinkedIn work for you (online) (postgraduate)

Starts: 17 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 17 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
Remaining places: 200
From managing your profile to using it effectively to connect with professionals and build your network, this practical session will ensure you’re getting the most out of LinkedIn.

What makes a good career narrative: how to build your personal story

Starts: 20 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 20 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
Venue: LSE, TBC, TBC
Remaining places: 45
Want to know what makes a good career narrative and how to use it with different audiences? Come along to this session to learn about how to build your personal narrative to tell your story in different professional settings.

Department of Management: Deloitte -Beyond the Buzzwords: People Analytics in Real Life

Starts: 21 Oct 2025, 9:30 am
Finishes: 21 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm
Venue: LSE, Marshall Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, MAR 6.33
Remaining places: 33
​Join Aditya Maharaja for an interactive skills seminar exploring how organizations leverage people analytics to make strategic decisions about their workforce. Drawing on real case studies from Deloitte, Amazon, Equinix, and Teach For India, this session will demystify how people data is used in practice across areas such as mergers and acquisitions, talent acquisition, employee engagement, and more.

Department of Management: Propelling Growth in Sub-Sahar Africa - Grow Movement Case study

Starts: 22 Oct 2025, 9:00 am
Finishes: 22 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Research has shown that entrepreneurship is one of the most effective means of alleviating poverty in emerging markets. In this online skills seminar, be inspired and learn how Grow Movement supports entrepreneurs and scales impact in low-income communities around the world.

Department of Government Skills Session – How to identify your skills relevant to the labour market

Starts: 23 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Finishes: 23 Oct 2025, 3:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Centre Building, Houghton Street, CBG 4.17
Remaining places: 50
Want to know how your skills developed throughout your time at LSE fit in to the labour market, join this interactive session to start considering your skills and how to articulate these to employers

Develop your networking style

Starts: 27 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm
Finishes: 27 Oct 2025, 1:30 pm
Venue: LSE, TBC, TBC
Remaining places: 85
Want to feel more confident in building strong relationships with people in different situations? Come along to this session to practice simple techniques that will help you make the most of networking opportunities.

Skills Seminar: Demystifying the SQE: Qualifying as a Solicitor - with the University of Law

Starts: 29 Oct 2025, 1:00 pm
Finishes: 29 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm
Venue: LSE, Cheng Kin Ku Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, CKK.1.04
Remaining places: 82
This workshop will cover everything you need to know when choosing to do the SQE. This SQE workshop looks at this route to qualification, providing key elements of the SQE, information on what to expect from the exams, and an interactive demonstration of Single Best Answer Questions.

 

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