#Love2Work4 2025

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Join us for our annual #Love2Work4!!

Our FREE, annual 3-day student employment, skills development and career opportunities event!

Employers / Organisations

Get involved with the events that we are running to advertise roles to our students, talk to them about opportunities, or host workshops or activities to get to know them better.

Students

Join our event to find out the range of roles and opportunities that are available for you.

Engaging with #Love2Work4

There are be opportunities for short-term insights and summer internships, as well as longer term year-long placements, and graduate opportunities.

We will likely host a larger careers fayre-style event, employability masterclasses, workshops, and mini-Hackathons, a blind date, talks, presentations and more!

Hopefully, you'll find there is something suitable for you to get involved with, so sign up now, and get involved with #Love2Work4 2025!!

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Event map

Schedule

February 11th, 2025

4:00pm – 7:00pm UTC
Blind Date

*OFF-SITE ACTIVITY*

THIS SESSION TAKES PLACE IN CARDIFF BAY AT CREDIT SAFE HQ

This Blind Date inspired student and employer networking event will see students as contestants looking to secure their 'blind date' with an employer as a fun way for students to secure their summer internship, placement, or graduate position. The main event is followed by networking with refreshments.

February 12th, 2025

10:00am – 11:30am UTC
Employer/Organisation talks

Organisations: Deliver a presentation to our students on a topic of your choice. It might be about and promoting your organisation and why students should consider applying for roles you've got. It might be about what you look for in a graduate or applicant, the tech you use or an interest project you're working on.

Students: Come and find out more about some interesting organisations who want to tell you about themselves, why you should apply to them, interesting projects and tech they are working on, and/or giving some hints and tips for how you should present yourself.

February 13th, 2025

10:00am – 11:45am UTC
Workshop: Addressing the Skills Gap

This workshop will be used to explore the employer perceptions and expectations of the support provided for the learner to earner journey and help identify mechanisms to bridge the digital skills gap. It will introduce participants to the SFIA (Skills for Information Age) framework and explore skills expectations with a focus on what is appropriate for graduates to evidence. This is a research project with eight different universities across the UK.

12:00pm – 12:45pm UTC
Presentations: Pitch 'n' Hitch

Organisations: Can you succinctly pitch your organisation to students in 60-seconds? Deliver your company's USPs, what roles you have available, what type of students you're looking for and why they should come and talk to you in the Careers Fayre to find out more about working for you in the future.

Students: Come and listen to 60-second pitches from those companies exhibiting in the Careers Fayre! Hear what their organisation's USPs are, what roles they have available, and why they want you to come and work them. Make notes on the companies you want to talk to.

1:00pm – 3:00pm UTC
Exhibitor Careers Fayre

An opportunity for organisations and students to talk about employment opportunities, skills and exchanging information.