Host or attend an event

This is a general overview of our upcoming employer activities, designed to help you connect with top talent. All events are free to attend and offer valuable opportunities to engage with students. Please click here to complete an event programme form for the activities you are interested in. For more information, or to arrange a discussion about how to maximise your engagement strategy, please contact  employer-engagement@qmul.ac.uk.

Please see our range of upcoming events here: Latest Events Schedules - Semester B 2024/25 [PDF 393KB] 

 

Careers Fairs (Spring & Autumn)

Our Careers Fairs, offer a prime opportunity to meet a diverse range of talented students and graduates from various disciplines. With hundreds of motivated students seeking full-time roles, internships, placements and graduate schemes, these fairs provide an ideal setting for employers to promote their brand, connect with top talent, and educate them on their recruitment opportunities to a wide pool of potential candidates.

 

Part-Time Jobs Fairs

The Part-Time Jobs Fairs bring together employers offering flexible, part-time roles ideal for students looking to balance work with their studies. This event is your chance to engage with a diverse group of students eager to gain practical experience while earning. Whether you are a local business or a national employer, this fair allows you to tap into the growing student workforce and provide students the financial support they need whilst studying.

 

Networking 

Our school-specific Speed Networking events allow employers to engage with students from target degrees. Whether you recruit from our School of Business and Management, Economics and Finance, Humanities and Social Sciences or Biological and Behavioural Sciences, we have a networking event for you!  

 

Panel Sessions

Our Panel Sessions provide employers with the opportunity to engage directly with students through insightful discussions on commercial awareness and industry trends, career development and company culture. These sessions include alumni panels, where former students share their career journeys and experiences, offering valuable perspective and advice. It’s an excellent way for employers to answer student queries, and build connections with the next generation of talent interested in your sector.

 

Insight Sessions

Insight Sessions provide employers an exclusive opportunity to showcase your industry and give students an inside look at your company’s work environment and recruitment process. By hosting a session, you’ll build your brand presence, offer valuable guidance to future employees, and attract students with a genuine interest in your sector.

 

Mock Assessment Centres

Styled around an assessment centre, our interactive mock assessment events will allow employers the opportunity to showcase their inclusive selection practices and support student skills development through facilitating real-life assessment activities! From conducting a group exercise, to delivering commercial case studies and psychometric assessments, to providing interview insight, this event is for anyone looking to actively talent spot QMUL students.    

 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do at Queen Mary. We want to ensure our events bring inspiration and confidence to our students and promote inclusivity. For all Careers Events, we aim to find speakers who reflect our student body.

For full information about our commitment to EDI at all Careers Events, please see our statement of intent: Careers and Enterprise Statement of Intent, Religion and Inclusivity 2024 [PDF 138KB]

To monitor inclusivity at events, we collect optional Special Category Data from speakers. For more information on the process and purpose, please read our Special Category Data statement: QMUL Careers and Enterprise Special Category Data Statement - 2023 [PDF 262KB]

We also host a range of inclusion events throughout the year. Please contact employer-engagement@qmul.ac.uk if you would like to recommend a speaker for an event or to find out about any upcoming inclusion events.

 

If you would like to promote your own online event to Queen Mary students, please send the title, date, times, joining instructions and biography to employer-engagement@qmul.ac.uk. 

For on-campus stalls or promotional packages, contact the Students' Union. 

If you are an alumni interested in sharing your experiences with current students, we would love to hear from you! Please contact employer-engagement@qmul.ac.uk and look through our Aspire programmes for exciting opportunities.

As one of the most diverse universities in the UK with our students drawn from over 170 nationalities,  and 72% of our domestic undergraduate students coming from Black and Minority Ethnic heritage, fostering environments of inclusion and representation is a priority.  We recognise the importance of creating inclusive learning environments that respect and celebrate the diverse backgrounds of our students, and we would therefore like to share some recommendations from rare recruitment in their June 2024 report on ‘The Experience of British Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in City Law’. Whilst this report relates to Law, we believe the principles can be taken and applied to all sectors. To this end, we would like to strongly encourage our employer partners to consider the recommendations made in this report (the key recommendations of which are listed below) in order to create an inclusive and fair environment for students of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage, as well as other minority communities. 

 

Recommendations for employers:  

1. Host formal work social events in venues that are not pubs or bars and that serve food that can be eaten by people who observe a Halal diet.  

2. Build formal work social events around activities that are inclusive and not solely focused on alcohol.  

3. Put in place clear policies on accommodations for religious prayer and fasting during the working day. Ensure managers and supervisors are briefed on these policies, provide an overview of the policies during inductions for new joiners and make clear statements about the policies annually.  

4. Make clear statements during inductions for new joiners that people are permitted to pray when they need to and that their supervisors and managers are aware of this.  

5. Brief supervisors and managers clearly on how to be inclusive of Muslim employees and interns, including advice on prayer, fasting and alcohol.  

6. Review the accessibility, convenience and suitability of prayer and bathroom facilities.  

7. Endeavour to include role models of Asian Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage on internships, or, if that is not possible, role models of Muslim heritage.  

8. Reference Muslim networks and other religious heritage or belief networks as part of diversity talks, should such networks exist.  

9. Provide support for the creation and promotion of a firm wide Muslim network and/or other religious heritage or belief networks where none exists.  

10. Conduct data analysis to assess the representation of Bangladeshi and Pakistani candidates within your existing outreach programmes and application pools. If the data shows this group is underrepresented, consider establishing targeted outreach programmes and scholarships for Bangladeshi and Pakistani candidates. 

11. Conduct grade-adjusted adverse impact analysis to monitor the fairness of your assessment process. If you identify adverse impact when controlling for prior attainment, review and update your assessment process and assessor training with the aim of removing bias.  

 

In 2024, QMUL C&E commissioned its own research into the experiences of Bangladeshi students and are pleased to report this produced many of the same recommendations. We are therefore committed to ensuring an inclusive and fair environment for our students.