Career Fairs can be useful when you are starting out in work, changing career; looking to return to work; to see what trainee or apprentice options exist; or simply wanting to see what types of work are trending to help you decide what direction interests and suits you best. By attending events like these you often have the opportunity to speak directly with employers. This can help you in the following ways:

• understand the variety of available opportunities, including required qualifications/experience

• Whether they offer on the job training 

• Learn what each role job entails and how flexible they are in terms of work patterns or locations

• BFRS National Careers Fairs: Physical events held across various UK locations that welcome family members of the Armed Forces community. Events

• "Veteran UK" provide career fairs dedicated to service leavers and veterans aimed helping service leavers transition into the civilian workforce matched to their unique and valuable skillsets. Veteran UK Events 
• CTP Employment Fairs are designed to support your transition to civilian life by providing you with valuable resources, networking opportunities, and direct access to Forces-friendly employers with experience of hiring veterans and Service leavers.
  These events are open to serving and ex-military personnel who have pre-registered to attend through the Career Transition Partnership, and not to the general public.
  Upcoming events: Events

• Forces Families Jobs (FFJ): Run by the tri-Service Families Federations, the Forces Families Jobs (registration required) with the site portal lists vacancies, training schemes, and virtual or physical employment networking opportunities tailored for UK military family members. For more information about FFJ and what else they can offer please see their main site: Forces Families Jobs - Forces Families Jobs

• The MCN is a professional network for the spouses and partners of serving personnel and veterans. Its aim is to enable members to create and maintain professional lives alongside military life through an online community and network of coworking hubs, located at military bases across the UK and abroad. Events | Military Coworking Network

• Recruit for Spouses (RFS): Regularly hosts virtual events, wellbeing programs, and fact-finding sessions focused on flexible work opportunities and career coaching for military partners. RFS: Stronger Families. Stronger Workforce. Stronger Defence.

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