What are top employers looking for from Students when they graduate?

Employers want students who have developed key job ready skills before they graduate

Developing work ready skills while studying helps students to stand out to top employers. This was the key finding from our joint research with Common Purpose, a leading deliverer of online leadership programmes for students. The world's top employers told us that the skills students develop for their career whilst studying are just as important as their academic education.

Times Higher Education and Common Purpose have teamed up to ensure students get a head start and a boost to their employability ready for when they graduate. Skills Now: Maximise Your Employability is a student focused employability course providing insight into the five key skills employers expect students to develop whilst they study.

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Why should you complete our online employability course specifically?

Skills Now: Maximise Your Employability is designed to help students land their dream job when they graduate. This has been achieved by developing our course with top employers such as McKinsey, Amazon, Facebook and PwC. This course is focused on helping you learn how to become the highly skilled person top employers are looking for when you finish university. Specifically designed for students currently studying, this flexible online course, can be taken at any time while you are studying. Skills Now: Maximise Your Employability will help you become a candidate who can prove their employability skills to graduate employers.

Course overview

• Course content created with the worlds top graduate employers such as McKinsey, Amazon, Facebook and PwC.
• Five hour bitesize online course to complete at your own pace fitting around your study commitments.
• Five core modules built around five core skills employers look for from top graduates.
• Real-world insights, scenarios and challenges to help you apply the core skills and mindset needed to be successful employee. 
• Promote your new skills on your CV and social media with a digital certificate.