Building resilience through erratic career pathways
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Is the concept of ‘a job for life’ still relevant? How do we prepare ourselves for a potentially bumpy ride along our career pathways? What are the key transferrable skills we can always take with us, whoever we work for?
Join our Senior Digital Education Consultant, Adele Cushing, her colleagues and Birkbeck’s LinkedIn partners as we discuss these pertinent questions and explore the use of LinkedIn to support job-seeking opportunities, ongoing professional development and subject learning.
Biographies
Adele Cushing is Senior Digital Education Consultant for the School of Business, Economics and Informatics. She specialises in learning design and development, digital learning tools and skills building.
Ralph Blunden oversees the relationships between UK universities and LinkedIn’s Learning and Hiring solutions. He advises on how universities can help students and their own staff to develop their skills to match the demand for talent within the world of work and how employers can attract the best candidates.
Kash Ahmed is a Senior Customer Success Manager who manages UK University accounts that currently use LinkedIn Learning and helps them leverage content to equip learners to gain skills for programme success and the everchanging needs of the world of work. Kash has worked in the HE & FE sector for 26 years as a Technical Project Manager, Implementation Consultant and Customer Success Manager.
Yahya Saleh is the Senior Digital Education Consultant from the School of Science. Since graduating in 2018, Yahya has held a variety of contract roles across Digital Education teams, building staff confidence in the technological products offered at the institution. He specialises in system operations, project management and user training.
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