Grads: Communicating your values in your CV

Join the Graduate Employability Support Team this term for an interactive themed discussion series designed to help you tackle real career questions. These sessions offer a welcoming space for open, thoughtful conversation, where you can learn from your peers and the Team while exploring practical career strategies.

Each session is shaped by the questions and topics raised in real time, allowing us to springboard into open and respectful discussion, idea-sharing, and fresh perspectives you can apply straight away.

You’re encouraged to come ready to contribute, be on mic where possible, and learn collaboratively from one another.

In this session

We’ll focus on how to communicate your values effectively in your CV, helping you move beyond simply listing experience to clearly expressing what motivates you, how you work, and what you stand for as a creative professional.
You’ll explore how values can be reflected through language, structure, and examples — and how this can strengthen your CV for both creative and non-creative roles.

Event Details:

🗓 Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026

🕒 Time: 11:00 – 12:00pm GMT

📍 Where: Online Event – hosted on Blackboard Collaborate

Presenter: The Graduate Employability Support Team helps you to identify your skills and strengths, necessary/required in the world of work. We help you to explore your options and to take the first steps in your graduate career.

Who should attend?

🎓 This event is open to recent graduates from UAL who are looking to improve their chances of getting started, and progressing, in their professional journey.

About the Workshop:

This session will be a collaborative workshop. There will be slides to prompt useful discussion. But the main aim of the session is to be reactive and create room for open discussion around the chosen theme.

How to prepare?

✨ Check out our online resources where we host lots of information and tips, to start with the basics.

✨ Please bring your questions and be prepared to make notes during the session.

Questions about the event?

If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact the Graduate Employability Support team at gradsupport@arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you.

Image credit: Creative Business by Daniel Ioannou