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Nicola Clemmit Faculty Employability Manager Internships, Placement Years & Other Work Experience
Nicola ClemmitFaculty Employability Manager
Internships, Placement Years & Other Work
Experience
Why do Work Experience?Have a quick chat with the person next to you:
- Why gain work experience while studying?
- Why is it important?
- What do you gain from it?
Consider your situation?Have a quick chat with the person next to you:
- How much time do you have?
- When is the best time to do it?
Benefits of Work Experience1. Insight into a sector or job role2. Gain confidence and skills3. Meet new people4. Insight into your strengths and interests5. Evidence your abilities for CV/application6. Motivate & inspire you7. Build your professional network8. Job Reference9. Job Offer!
10. Ultimately makes you more employable
Benefits to Employers
• Experienced students• Extended interview• New thinking and perspectives• Drive• Hunger • Skill sets which may be missing from their
company
In pairs list as many types of work experience as you can.
• Industrial Placement/Placement Year• Internship• Insight days • Informal or unpaid work experience• Vacation job• Work shadowing• Volunteering• Research Projects• Positions of responsibility within committees/societies• Competitions and business games• Business start ups
Types of Work Experience
Survey the Times Top 100 Employers in December 2018
High Fliers Survey 2019
Volunteering projects, placements and one-off activities
york.ac.uk/volunteering
Volunteering
www.york.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
www.yusu.org/opportunities/volunteering
Volunteering Opportunities • York Students In Schools (Spring term) - Closing 3rd November - Classroom assistants- Maths Excellence Club - maths coach- GCSE Tutor - Maths and English - Celebrating Chinese New Year - Portal to the Past: Exploring Ancient Rome- You're nicked! Volunteer with North Yorkshire Police to educate young people
about crime and justice - Making Rights a Reality: Workshops on Children's Rights
Apply on the Careers Gateway - Exclusive Opportunities @YorkSunday of Week 5 (3rd November)www.york.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
Volunteering Opportunities ● Volunteering- SASH Sleep Out Project:
This project is ideal for students with an interest in digital or creative marketing, and also an enthusiasm to make a difference to the lives of young people facing homelessness. We are looking for a small team of 4-6 volunteers to create with us a ‘Host Your own Sleepout’ toolkit to help us encourage and guide individuals to hold an independent Sleepout fundraiser in aid of SASH.
- The Wilberforce Trust: Community Engagement Officer:
Community Engagement Officers are tasked with engaging with a range of people to raise awareness and understanding of living with visual impairments and other sensory impairments such as hearing loss. They seek to achieve this through developing local focus groups, identifying organisations and groups who could receive an informal talk about the organisation, and preparing and delivering (the latter is optional) such talks. The role that you choose to play can be dependent upon your own interests and strengths. 2-4 hrs a week.
- St Nicks: Practical Conservation Volunteer:
Practical Conservation volunteers assist in practical conservation tasks, general site maintenance and decision-making at St Nicks Local Nature Reserve. Tasks including coppicing, scrub clearance, tree planting and habitat maintenance. 1 session per term - 9.30-4pm
Apply on the Careers Gateway - Exclusive Opportunities @YorkSunday of Week 5 (3rd November)www.york.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
Volunteering Opportunities ● Volunteering- Growing Green Spaces: Biodiversity Surveys
All you need is an app and a willingness to explore York’s green spaces to get involved! We support creative projects that are designed to attract and develop the skills of a diverse range of volunteers and tap into green spaces' potential to improve biodiversity, health, and wellbeing. The scheme is looking to measure the biodiversity across it’s current projects at: Hull Road Park; Rowntree Park; Clarence Gardens; Heworth/Pottery Lane (very quick one); Redfearn Alleys (also quick); Millennium Fields; the YUMI Garden; Fishponds and the Beech Grove and Holgate Community Garden.
- YUMI Intercultural Network: Digital and Project volunteersYUMI is an intercultural network that provides opportunities for people from different cultures to meet with the local community and make friends. We run projects and events that support people to volunteer and develop skills and feel part of local life. There are 3 activities YUMI is looking for help with: Supporting communications and promotions, including support for web (Wordpress) and digital communications; Help to plan and deliver new events for BAME communities, including refugees, to practice English; To help create a new children’s activity session using food to explore multicultural York. 4 hours a week until end of spring term.
- National Autistic Society: North Yorkshire Committee membersThere are a range of roles on the committee, activities may include Taking responsibility for organising committee meetings and taking notes at committee meetings; Ensuring that the branch is a safe place for children and vulnerable adults and is complying with NAS policies; Organising branch fundraising activities; Writing a newsletter for the branch members; Organising group outings and activities for Branch Members
Apply on the Careers Gateway - Exclusive Opportunities @York Sunday of Week 5 (3rd November)
www.york.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
Apply on the Careers Gateway - Exclusive Opportunities @York
Skills Development
Events
Startup Support
york.ac.uk/enterprise
Explore Enterprise- 5 week program that will teach you the basics of running your own business- Runs from weeks 5 - 9 in the Autumn and Spring terms - 1 two hour workshop a week- Aimed at students who are interested in running their own business in the future- A fully formed business plan isn't necessary, just an open mind and a drive to succeed - Each of the five weeks will look at a different aspect of running a business
Intro to Startup - Crash course in business development and an overview of the practical support that the university
offers to help you develop a business- The University’s Enterprise Team will teach you the basic theory behind starting up a new business- You don’t have to have a business idea to attend, and students from all disciplines and year groups
are welcome- 24th October in AEW004
Creative Freelancing Bitesize - Interested in working freelance within the Creative Industries? Increase your chances of success, by
attending a carousel of events about everything from personal branding to the joys of working freelance.
- All welcome with free pizza and drinks included.- 13th November in the Ron Cooke Hub on Campus East
Book your place on the Careers Gatewayhttps://www.york.ac.uk/careers/enterprise
Enterprise Opportunities
Opportunities outside the UK▪ University travel bursaries ▪ ww.york.ac.uk/study/study-abroad/travel ▪ Centre for Global Programmes
- International Study Centres▪ Vacation work ▪ Volunteering Projects▪ Travel and work schemes eg Work America▪ Careers Service guides e.g. ‘Work your way around the world’;
‘Summer jobs abroad’; TEFL▪ Careers websitewww.york.ac.uk/careers/international-work
▪ Usually formal, planned, structured placements – often project based over summer vacation
▪ Typically offered in large organisations areas such as labs, business, HR, Retail, IT, Tech, Finance, Marketing and Communications
▪ Competitive often with early deadlines (Autumn)
www.york.ac.uk/careers/internships
Structured Internships and Placements
Survey the Times Top 100 Employers in December 2018
• “In today’s competitive graduate recruitment market, work experience schemes have become an integral part of recruiting new graduates.”
• More than 4/5s offered paid work experience programmes for students and recent graduates during the 2018-2019 academic year
• Nearly 3/4 provide paid vacation internships for penultimate year students and over 2/5 offer course placements for undergraduates
• Substantial numbers of employers now also have work experience places for first year undergraduates - mostly short term
• A number of graduates are recruited to graduate roles from internship/placements in the company which means they go back to final year with a job in the bag
• 2/5 employers had received more completed graduate job applications during the early part of the recruitment season than the previous year
• 1/3 also believed the quality of applications had improved
https://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/2019/graduate_market/GMReport19.pdf
High Fliers Survey 2019
What’s doing a placement year really like? Years 1 & 2, THU 17 OCT, 6.00-8.00pm
Where science students are on the placement year programme
Placement Events & Opportunities Events:Week 3, Thu 17 Oct, 18:00 — What's doing a placement year really like?.Week 4, Tue 22 Oct, 11:00 — GSK - Year in Industry Talk (all degree programmes)
Live Placements:GSK - Analytical Chemistry Placement (R&D), Clinical Operations Placement, Analytical Chemistry Placement (Manufacturing) - October 16th, 2019Pepsico - R&D - Statistics placement - closes October 27th, 2019Deloitte - Cyber Security Placement - closes on rolling basis Renishaw Hub - Physics/Scientific Industrial Placement - 1st November Johnson & Johnson - Consumer Marketing Student Placement - 15th NovemberL’Oreal - Digital Marketing Industrial Placement - 22nd November Rolls Royce - Operational Accounting placement - 29th NovemberScience & Technology Facilities Council Hub - Neutron Imaging Improvement Placement - 27th OctoberBAE Systems - Systems Engineer, Electronic Systems Placement - ongoing deadline
York Strengths ProgrammeStudent Internship Bureau
Student Internship Bureau Part time (term) & full-time (vacation) internships
• Paid, project based; tax and NI free www.york.ac.uk/careers/sib - PT (10-20hrs pw) 12 week Digital Accessibility Internship, The York
Management School, Campus - closes 17th Oct
STEP programme National programme, project based paid placements• www.step.org.uk
Yorkshire Graduates www.yorkshiregraduates.co.uk/internships/
SMEs (Small and medium size organisations)
Finding advertised opportunitieswww.york.ac.uk/careers/gateway www.gradcracker.comwww.ratemyplacement.co.ukwww.prospects.ac.ukwww.work-experience.orgwww.step.org.ukwww.stemgraduates.co.ukwww.targetjobs.co.ukwww.milkround.comwww.fledglings.netwww.instantimpactinterns.comwww.internship-uk.comwww.inspiringinterns.comwww.anyintern.comwww.studentladder.co.ukwww.graddiary.com/
Recruitment Apps: Debut
https://debut.careers/
Unearth the hidden market
Hidden Job Market• How might you approach an organisation?• What do you need to consider? What
information do you need to share?• What are the pros and cons of each method?
The recruitment process is a skill. It varies depending on the opportunity but could involve one or all of the following:
• CV or application• Psychometric tests • Video Interview• Assessment Centre• Telephone interview – often competency based• Technical interview
What it takes to get work experience:
• Are there deadlines or key times when available? • How competitive are they? Do you need a Plan B too?• Are opportunities advertised?• Are there resources available to help you to identify orgs?• Could it lead to graduate opportunities? • Are there application obstacles along the way you can get support with?• Is this experience testing a skill set OR providing an insight?• Are there resources readily available to help you?• Any other challenges?
Things to Consider……
• Don’t be blinkered by a niche area or experiences that related directly to your degree
• This narrows the opportunities available • Work experience that develops key skills such as commercial
awareness, analytical skills in the workplace, marketing, communication, team work etc are all crucial to a lot of roles spanning sectors and specialisms
• All work experience is key • And consider how you can increase your commercial awareness...
Transferable Skills
∙ Marketing yourself i.e. CV/application check, LinkedIn ∙ Use CareerSet - www.careerset.io/york (sign up with uni email
address), click on Score My CV and upload CV in PDF format, use the feedback to improve your CV. Re-upload and track progress. Looking for 65-70% before booking a CV review
∙ Practice! Tests, interviews, other assessments i.e. e-tray∙ Network with Employers – careers fairs, employer presentations∙ Research sectors/roles - understand why you want to get experience with a
particular organisation
How can you prepare/ improveyour Chances?
www.york.ac.uk/students/work-volunteering-careers/apply/
Tailored applications/CVs which demonstrate:• Genuine motivation for the role and employer• Credible evidence that you have the skills to do the job• Professional approach – appropriate format, structure,
attention to detail (proof read!)
Making the right impression
Provide examples from your own experience – clear, concise but specific
Context: Explain the situation briefly – what, where, when, with whom
Actions: What did you do - your role, your actions? Make sure your answer relates to the question
Result / Reflection: What happened? What was the outcome?
CAR technique for applications
Science Faculty Programme - still to come• 29 Oct 18:00-19:00pm: CV Basics• 6th Nov, 16:00-18:00: Women in Tech• 13 Nov 15.30-16.30pm: Interview Skills• 20 Nov 17:00-18:00: Help, I don't know what to do in my career• 20th Nov, 13:30-18:00: Women in Tech (practical)• 20th Nov, 18:00-19:30: Women in Tech
Central Careers programme• 16th October, 13:00 - 16:00pm: Law Fair• 16th October, 17:15 - 19:15pm: Is Law for Me?• 22nd October, 11:00 - 15:00pm: Recruitment and Placements Fair• 23rd October, 11:30 - 15:00pm: Tech Fair• 24th October, 14:00 - 16:00pm: Introduction to Startups• 24th October, 15:00 - 18:00pm: Global Opportunities Fair• 28th October, 13:00-14:00pm: Your Rights at Work (disabilities)• 30th October, 18:30 - 21:00pm: Assessment Centre Experience
Workshops
• Information Drop-in daily 11am - 1pm• Careers advice appointments• Science Faculty careers appointments• CV and Application form reviews• Practice InterviewsBook via www.york.ac.uk/careers/gateway
• Alumni mentor - York Profiles and Mentorswww.york.ac.uk/careers/profiles
One to one support
● Additional funding to access work experience opportunities - bursaries ranging from £6000 for substantive work experience through to £250
● Open for students meeting the criteria
● Can be fully secured or opportunities you intend to apply for at time of application:
- Study or work abroad opportunities- Support to boost your salary for substantive work experience - Support to take up a voluntary position - Travel expenses to make an opportunity feasible for you
● Become part of the York Futures Scholarship scheme and receive updates on other opportunities to support your employability
● Tips: put forward a compelling case based on need and credibility of plans to spend the money. Completing/completed York Strengths or York Award.
● 2 opportunities to apply:
● ‘Round 1’ Autumn Term weeks 2 - 6 ● ‘Round 2’ Start of Easter Vacation - end of week 1 Summer Term
York Futures Scholarship Bursaries
What next?…• What kind of experience are you aiming for?• Why?• How are you going to get it?• What help or support do you need?• Use advice on applying for opportunities• Use CareerSet to review your CV from home
Questions?
york.ac.uk/careers
