Whether you're a Career Starter, Developer, or Changer, understanding how to effectively market yourself and your postgraduate degree to employers will help you make the most of your qualification in applications and at interviews, and raise your profile in the field. Learn how to showcase your skills and experience as a distance learner to best promote your distance learning qualification:

Make your distance learning qualification work for you

Choosing to study your qualification in a flexible or distance learning context is a significant decision. It is important that you can explain that decision effectively to future recruiters. It is also essential that you are able to emphasise how your mode of study can enhance what you can offer future employers. In order to demonstrate the value of your distance learning qualification to recruiters you also need to understand fully the value of your style of study. The clearer you are about the ‘added benefits’ of distance and flexible learning, the easier it will to express those benefits to others, such as on your CV, résumé, application form or during an interview.

Use this checklist below to help you to assess how you can make your distance learning qualification work hard for you, as you apply for future roles and job opportunities:

1) Showcase your skills

  • Understand the specific skill development that flexible/distance/online learning offers
  • Highlight the link between successful distance learning and effectiveness in the modern hybrid working context

2) Emphasise your digital learning

  • Highlight your time management, project management and self-motivation skills that you have demonstrated by your distance learning achievements
  • Emphasise your digital literacy skills and why that is so relevant
  • Address any ‘gaps’ you feel you may have by not studying on campus - what networks do you need to build, what experiences do you need to create?

3) Highlight the reputation of your course

  • Reiterate the strong international reputation of LSHTM
  • Have pride in your active choice to learn in this way


And most of all, as you apply for jobs, remember to make a clear match with the specific skills in the job advert and show the employer how your distance learning experience, together with your other work and volunteer experiences,  would make a great contribution to their organisation.

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Last modified: Monday, 13 April 2026, 11:51 AM