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Career Connect
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions you’ll make, and the UOWD Career Connect is here to help.
We offer an extensive set of resources for UOWD students and graduate job seekers looking to develop their employability skills, hone their interview techniques, and access exciting and rewarding job opportunities.
The Centre provides one-to-one counselling, drop-in sessions, careers seminars, skills workshops and mock-interviews. It also houses a career resource library, hosts jobs fairs, and advertises postings for internships and paid work experience opportunities through a dedicated online portal, exclusive to UOWD students and graduates.
UOWD's careers advisors can assist you with:
- Evaluating career options
- Creative job search techniques
- Developing applications, CVs or resumes, and covering letters
- Interview skills
- Individual and group career advice and follow up meetings
- Career and occupational information
- Information on local employment opportunities and careers fairs.
Workplace Readiness Programs
Our Workplace Readiness Series is a comprehensive program of skills training, interactive role-plays and career enhancement workshops that will help you to perfect your job search, application and interview techniques. The series is accompanied by a set of information brochures, which provide a vital resource as you prepare for the world of work. Topics covered include:
- CV and cover letter writing
- Job search techniques
- Recruitment selection test
- Online job application
- Interview role-plays
- Interactive interviews
- How to dress at interviews
- Preparing for a career fair
- Mock interviews
Career Fair
The UOWD Career Fair attracts dozens of multinational, as well as leading UAE firms, to recruit senior students from across all academic disciplines. Our students and graduates have an outstanding record of securing employment as a result of their attendance at this annual event, which attracts organisation such as Pfizer, Deloitte, Microsoft, Emirates NBD, IBM, PWC, Mashreq Bank, and Standard Chartered.
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Open Day
Attend our next Open Day on Saturday, 20 April 2024.
Join our experts to learn more about our degrees and how you can enrol at UOWD.