Welcome to the PG Skills Canvas Course for postgraduate students.

Our live workshops and online resources are designed to help you master and articulate the skills that employers are looking for.

If you are a current postgraduate student, you can enrol on this course by clicking the 'Join this course' button on the right.

Upcoming live PG Skills sessions include:

PG Skills: How to Innovate and Think Creatively - Tuesday 10th December, 10:00-11:30 - on campus

Please look at the modules section for information, recordings, and PowerPoint slides of previous sessions which have taken place.

View our selection of short online courses and resources to develop your employability skills. All resources can be worked through at your own pace.

You may want to start by finding out what top skills employers are looking for and what employers think of postgraduates in our introductory module - What are the top skills? Alternatively, you can visit the Modules section to see everything on offer.

In addition to the resources here, University of Birmingham postgraduate students and recent alumni have free access to LinkedIn Learning! This is a fantastic learning and development resource where you will find hundreds of useful short courses and training videos.

The Birmingham Award

The Birmingham Award is the University of Birmingham's employability skills award for students. The award supports you to develop and recognise the skills you gain through extra-curricular activities and how to articulate these skills in the recruitment process. Find out more here

The Postgraduate Professional Development Award (PPDA)

If you'd like to go above and beyond to develop your employability skills, the PPDA is the extended version of the Birmingham Award, exclusively for Postgraduate Taught (PGT) students. Find out more and enrol in the Canvas courses here

Graduate Attributes

The Graduate Attributes are a set of skills, behaviours, and values that you can develop while at the University of Birmingham, that will help you develop to flourish in your future career. They were developed with insights from students, graduates, employers, and staff. You can self-audit your skills and attributes to gain a personal overview of the skills and attributes that are your strengths, and the ones that you might seek to develop further. Once you've completed this assessment, you'll gain access to learning pathways for each of the attributes, to develop your knowledge and understanding of them at your own pace. Find out more here

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