Category: Placement Year
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My Placement Year at Enterprise Rent-A-Car
I’m Megan, a third-year BA Politics student at the University of York. I had an unconventional placement experience as I chose a role unrelated to my degree, and I also…
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Assemble: My Top 6 Placement Skills
Here are my “Core 6” placement skills and how my experiences have helped me develop as an individual and employee. When thinking about how to write about the skills I…
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Stepping outside the lecture hall – what a placement year can teach you
Just a little over a year ago, I could’ve never imagined myself working a corporate 9-5, much less enjoying it. However, when I took the initiative to expand my horizons…
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Reflections On My Industrial Placement Journey
Hello! Back in late April 2024, I decided to undertake an integrated Master’s program, due to my placement applications not quite panning out the way I would have liked them…
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The Benefit of a Year In Industry Detour: Three Months at the Earlham Institute
At the start of second year, I hadn’t considered a year in industry. I felt like I was on a roll with uni so spending a year away seemed like…
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Your Essential Guide to Securing Placements and Jobs at UoY
The pressure to balance degree demands with career planning can be daunting. As students, we often feel we lack the professional experience employers demand. However, the University of York’s Careers…
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Applying for the Placement Year I Never Planned
From a student who sidelined the prospect of a placement year to an intern at one of the UK’s leading dairy companies – here’s how I secured the dream role…
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Year in Industry: How I got my placement.
When I started my degree, I knew that I loved learning about ground-breaking scientific discoveries, but always wondered: what is it like to follow that discovery from start to finish?…
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From Square One to the End – my complete Placement application journey
At the start of my degree, I had absolutely no intentions of doing a Placement Year. I had wanted to focus solely on my studies and graduate as quickly as…
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Thinking about a Placement Year? My experience using the Careers and Placements service
What is the Careers and Placements service, and how can they help? Careers and Placements is a specialist team within the University of York which provides eligible students with guidance…
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Looking back on a placement year in cancer research
Over the past 9 months I have been working to develop and test novel drugs for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer at the Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford. I…
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Employability support in the Department of Psychology
When starting university, most people are just thinking about getting their degree. But if you’re anything like me then you’re probably already thinking about finding a job afterwards! If that’s…