LCF Grad Futures: From Search to Success – Navigating Job Applications

LCF Grad Futures: From Search to Success – Navigating Job Applications

Unlock the secrets to successful job applications! Learn expert tips to impress employers, and land interviews in this insightful session.

By LCF Graduate Futures

Date and time

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:00 - 16:00 GMT+1

Location

London College of Fashion EB M01 (Lecture Theatre)

105 Carpenters Road London E20 2AR United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

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

In today’s competitive job market, it’s not enough to simply apply for roles—you need to stand out. From crafting attention-grabbing applications to showcasing your unique strengths, setting yourself apart is the key to landing interviews.

Are you confused about where is the best place to find job vacancies? Unsure of what to prepare to begin applying for jobs online? Do you want to approach companies but don’t know where to start?

Join this session and equip yourself with the skills and confidence to discover where to find job vacancies, how to leverage your network, outreach to employers to seek out opportunities not advertised and learn strategies to navigate the recruitment process and make your applications stand out!


Speakers

  • Melanie Mitchell, Graduate Futures Careers Consultant: Leveraging over 30 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 webinar, you will develop the key skills of communication, connectivity, 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: LCF Careers Fair 2024 with LCF Graduate Futures, UAL | Photography by India Mae Alby.

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Frequently asked questions

When will I receive the event joining information?

For all our events and activities, you will receive a reminder email with joining instructions 1-2 days before the event. If the session is running virtually, you will receive all of the joining links with this reminder and the day before the activity.

This event is in person, how can I find your building in East Bank?

Follow our guide who walks you through the route from Stratford tube station, through Westfields, onto the Park, and to our East Bank campus entrance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWQX2k41YOw

Do I need any specific equipment to participate?

If you are joining our virtual sessions, you will need a device to access the session through Microsoft Teams (online or desktop app). For in-person events we recommend bringing notebooks and pens, as well as a device to be able to access any digital elements of the activity and network.

I don’t go London College of Fashion, can I still attend the event?

Our events are for LCF students, graduates and alumni only. If you are not a student or graduate with London College of Fashion you will be removed from the event access lists. This is because Graduate Futures is a bespoke LCF service department and we only have capacity to support our own students.

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Supporting your professional ambitions

Studying at LCF gives you access to the focused careers and enterprise services, events and resources from the Graduate Futures team. Whatever your career, freelancer or business start-up ambitions, Graduate Futures works to provide current students and alumni with advice direct from industry thought leaders. We provide a safe place to encourage you to be comfortable with risk, ambiguity and experimentation. Graduate Futures supports the whole of your LCF journey and beyond, to enable you to innovate, create and achieve.

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Our support is free and accessible to all LCF students, graduates and alumni. Most of our opportunities are open to all, but some might be limited to specific groups - we'll make it clear when this is the case.