Promote Yourself: How to build your PR and Marketing connections
UCL Alumni Professional Networking Event
Wednesday 28 November

Need expert advice on a securing a job in PR or Marketing?

Join us at UCL on Wednesday 28 November for the next in our series of Professional Networking Events - Promote Yourself: How to build your PR and Marketing connections.

Hear first-hand from our panel of successful alumni about how they progressed in this notoriously tough sector. Find out what essential skills impress prospective employers, pick up creative approaches to securing an exciting internship and gain essential inside industry knowledge on how to get ahead once you’ve landed your first role.

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q and A session and the chance to connect with fellow alumni over drinks and canapés (included in the ticket price).

Date: Wednesday 28 November 2012
Time: 7.00pm -10.00pm (registration from 6.30pm)
Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre (map), followed by a drinks reception in the UCL South Cloisters
Tickets: UCL Alumni: £10, UCL Alumni (unwaged or UCL grad-club members): £5 and UCL Students: £5
Tickets include drinks and canapés

Chair:
Pete Digger (English 1994)
Managing Director, Political Communications at Good Relations


Panellists:
Jonathan Bannister (Geography 1990)
Founder and Managing Director, MakeHappy

Felicity Green (Geography 2011)
Global Account Executive, Ogilvy & Mather

Nik Pollinger (Digital Anthropology 2010)
Managing Director, Wide PR

Zoe Paxton (English 2003)
Chief Press Officer, The Cabinet Office

About The Series:

This award-winning (CASE Circle of Excellence Award) series of UCL Alumni Professional Networking Events  is aimed primarily at recent graduates. The events have been designed to connect experienced alumni with recent graduates, and to provide information on career change, or how to break into an industry sector. The series began in 2009, and this event will be the 11th in the series.

Where are you heading?

UCL can continue to help you make the right choices even after you complete your studies. As alumni you can access industry careers mentoring free online, provided by UCL alumni, and UCL GradClub offers FREE professional help from a team of careers coaches for 2 years after graduation.

NB: Tickets are available on a first come first served basis.  No refunds will be issues for cancellations after Wednesday 23 May.  Please see our cancellations policy for further information.