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21 To avoid disappointment please book your place via: www.kent.ac.uk/ces/empfest THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER EM P YABILITY PO LO 5 TS IN Student Media Centre Open Day 10.00am-4.00pm above The venue EM P TS IN Accenture Sweet Bar 10.00am-4.00pm Keynes Atrium All students The Accenture Sweet Bar Experience combines the breath of fresh air that is our flavoured oxygen bar with the opportunity to connect with our people and get their firsthand take on what it’s like to work at Accenture. YABILITY PO LO 10 10.00am-11.00am COLT3 All students Looking to gain work experience in a theatre or in the creative arts industry more generally? Come along and find out more from those in the know. Marlowe’s Head of Creative Projects, Andrew Dawson will be offering useful tips and advice about the sector. As part of Employability Festival at the University of Kent the School of Arts has teamed up with the Marlowe Theatre to host a workshop about breaking into the creative arts YABILITY PO LO 15 EM P EM P Careers in the Marlowe Theatre and Beyond Enterprise Rent-a-Car – Assessment Centre Skills Workshop 10.00am-12.00pm KS14 All students A 2 hour session which will include practicing classic assessment centre tasks as well as a workshop based around the graduate recruitment process with some helpful hints and tricks to get that perfect job! To avoid disappointment please book a place at this event via: www.kent.ac.uk/ces/empfest. How to build a successful career in IT YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN YABILITY PO LO 10 All students For many students, venturing into the workplace with a disability, whether hidden or overt, is a difficult experience. Should you believe employers’ diversity policies? How should you raise a disability on application forms or at interview? Will the diversity policies you are told about reflect what happens on the office floor? These issues are not just for disabled students. In a modern commercial environment, forward thinking firms are the ones that flourish, and offer the best training and the greatest career opportunities. How can you make sure you join one? TS IN All students The Media Centre is home to the University of Kent’s three media outlets – Kent Television (KTV) – the student TV station, InQuire the student newspaper and online news website, and CSRfm – Canterbury’s local Community & Student Radio station. Come by and have a look around the studios and computer suites, and find out how to get involved in producing TV and short films, writing for your student news teams, or volunteering for your local radio station. 10.00am-11.00am W1-SR5 sector. Whether you want to be working on lighting and rigs or scheduling events come along and find out more. Make sure you get involved! TS IN Stage 1 and 2 computing students only Posters will be exhibited capturing the experiences of returning placement students and demonstrating the benefits of doing a placement. This will show second years the diversity of industries, companies and roles available for the Year in Industry. EM P EM P 9.00am-5.00pm SW101 YABILITY PO LO 10 Disability in the workplace – The psychology of prejudice and how to find the right employer with Robert Hunter, Founder of City Disabilities TS IN TS IN 10 EM P YABILITY PO LO Poster Fair 11.00am-12.00pm KLT2 STEM students QA Ltd is the UK’s Leading Technology training company. Working in partnership with vendors including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Apple, VMware and AWS QA supports over 100,000 technologists every year develop their careers within the world of IT. In today’s session we will: • Look at what trends exist in IT today – Mega Trends • What are the hot areas of employment and why? • How to differentiate yourself in a competitive environment? • What to do next? CONTINUED OVERLEAF