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Additional Skills

Workshops and session to boost your employability and enhance your CV all whilst complementing your studies.

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Our Additional Skills Training programme will boost your CV and make you more employable. In a competitive job market, it’s vital that when you graduate you have more on your CV than just your degree. In addition to our standard transferable skills sessions, we work closely with your University course teams to deliver a co-curricular programme that will make you stand out.

We try to make sure there is something for everyone, with all sessions being completely free, courtesy of The Big Deal - so get involved and gain a new skill for your CV. If you don’t see something that takes your fancy, get in touch and let us know what skills you would like to develop. To see the full list of what's available, check out our What’s On page. For more information or to suggest something new, please email sutraining@bnu.ac.uk.

In addition, the following free online resources offer training in a vast array of subjects such as health care, languages, finance and much, much more.

Alison – free online courses from the worlds leading expert.   

Open Learn – free learning from The Open University.

LinkedIn – LinkedIn Learning are offering a free months trial to access all of their online developmental content.

Code Academy – from building websites to analysing data, Code Academy can help you make it happen with their free trial.

TedEd – video based lessons organised by subject.

Excel Easy – easy to follow and fully illustrated online Excel tutorials.

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