Date: 22/06/2010
Time: 06:30 am
Location: Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP
About the event
The UK UPA Careers Event is rapidly approaching on Tuesday 22 June 2010, sponsored by and held at Thomson Reuters.
As always, our careers event is designed to provide a forum where UX employers and candidates can meet. It is also an opportunity for Professional Development and networking.
At the heart of this year’s event will be ‘Speed dating’: how to find your perfect partner (employer or candidate)’.
The agenda:
6:30 – 6:45 Meet, greet and networking
6:45 – 7:15 Skills development: Personal Branding with Jill Downing
7:30 – 9:00 ‘Speed dating’: 3-minute interviews with potential employers
This is a chance for candidates to strut their stuff and perfect their personal branding. Over a 90-minute period, candidates will circulate the room, spending 3-minutes with a range of high profile organisations interested in hiring quality UX personnel.
We are pleased to have confirmed Amberlight, Electronic Ink, EMC Consulting, Flow Interactive, Foolproof, Futureheads Recruitment Ltd, Just Giving, Nokia, System Concepts, Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, SapientNitro, we:are:London, Webcredible and Zebra People who will all be recruiting and taking part in the speed-dating activity.
For those who are not taking part in the ‘speed dating’, there will be a networking area and UX Competency Board describing the skills in this our field, awaiting your comments and feedback.
We look forward to seeing you on the day! Remember to come prepared with your CVs, business cards, portfolio and 3-minute pitch.
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About the speaker
Jill Downing (The Creative Training Company)
Jill has been working in learning and development for several years helping companies and individuals to enhance their communication skills. Coming from a professional theatre background, she is able to draw from a range of performance and improvisation techniques to deliver engaging and experinetal training.
She easily combines creative expertise with sound business understanding, having worked early in her career as a European client services manager in one of the world’s top advertising agencies.
Jill is a CIPD qualified trainer, and believes passionately that great training should be nothing less than inspirational.
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