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2026
3.00pm - 4.30pm

Event

LCF Grad Futures: Building Skills for Your Career Journey

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    London College of Fashion, EB Room: M01 (Lecture Theatre), 105 Carpenters Road, London E20 2AR

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Break into the creative industries. Learn how to leverage your skills, set goals and plan your way into your future career.

This session is only for London College of Fashion students and graduates. It is aligned to your Graduate Futures careers and employability journey.

This session offers a strong introduction into fashion and the creative industries. Gaining insight into the current job landscape, you'll understand the importance of mapping the market, the top skills employers are looking and which areas of the industry your unique skillset can be used for.

We’ll guide you with the essential first steps needed to prepare for your career including best practices to understand and leverage your transferable and technical skills and increase your self-awareness to find the best role to match your own personal values.

By the end of this session, you’ll have tips on how to begin to draft a career plan and know how to work backwards from your dream job to complete daily practices and tasks to help you jump up the creative careers ladder.


Speaker

  • Melanie Mitchell, Graduate Futures Careers Consultant:Leveraging over 20 years of experience as a Buyer, Headhunter and now Consultant, Melanie has worked with a number of brands including Christian Louboutin, Vivienne Westwood, AllSaints, Threads Styling and Sweaty Betty on projects relating to talent acquisition and executive search. Passionate about helping to build both brands and careers through putting the right people, in the right place at the right time she continues to use her industry expertise to coach and inspire the next generation looking to pursue careers in fashion.

Useful resources

In this session, you will develop the key skills of enterprise, communication, proactivity, and storytelling as defined by the UAL Creative Attributes Framework (My_CAF). Before attending this activity, we suggest you:


If there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have access requirements you wish to discuss, please contact graduate.futures@fashion.arts.ac.uk in advance, we'd be happy to talk with you. If you can't sign-up as the tickets have run out or expired, please email and see if you are still able to attend.



Image credit: Alena Jarrett, 2023 BA Contemporary Media Cultures. London College of Communication, UAL | Photograph: Alys Tomlinson

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