Canterbury Employability Festival programme

15 To avoid disappointment please book your place via: www.kent.ac.uk/ces/empfest TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 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. Final year students Have you thought about a career in teaching, but don’t know what you would teach, which age group and what your journey to becoming an Internships in Systems Engineering at Oracle EM P YABILITY PO LO 10 EM P EM P EM P 10.00am-11.00am KS14 All students Working in the arts is invigorating, creative and passionate, but how do you start? Who do you contact? Where do you look? How do you present yourself? This seminar session will give you a swift overview of what you can do to prepare, who the main players are across the art forms and where jobs are advertised. It also looks at portfolio working, being your own boss as a self-employed professional. Come along and talk about your future. 11.00am-11.45am SLT2 Stage 2 or final year students What does it take to work in Systems Engineering? This session introduces the work of software engineers developing and maintaining Solaris, Oracle’s mission critical UNIX system software. Engineers around the world collaborate on 10+ million lines of Interested in working in a gallery? Find out more! YABILITY PO LO 10 11.00am-12.00pm Studio 3 Gallery Jarman All students Interested in working in a gallery? Want to have a look around? Come along to this talk to find out more from someone who already does the job! Katie McGown (Studio 3 Gallery Coordinator) will deliver a presentation aimed at students who are thinking about applying for jobs in galleries. To avoid disappointment please book a place for this event via: www.kent.ac.uk/ces/empfest. Institute of Biomedical Science – Careers for graduates in Biomedical Science YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN Kent-Teach – Future Teachers of Kent 10.00am-11.00am DS1 TS IN All students Are you prepared for job applications, interviews and assessment centres? Did you know that commercial awareness is a key attribute that most employers are looking for candidates to demonstrate through the recruitment process? Joining this session will draw upon your current commercial awareness and provide you with top tips on how you can continue to develop it – so you’re fully prepared. You’ll work through a case study exercise that will allow you to demonstrate and practise your team work and communication skills, ahead of any assessment centre. YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN 9.00am-11.00am KS13 Working in the Arts – Who’s who? code to enable Oracle’s more than 400,000 customers, including all 100 of the Fortune 100, in over 145 countries to accelerate innovation and deliver the best experience to their own customers. We have more than 120,000 employees, including 36,000 developers and engineers and 18,000 support personnel. Have you got what it takes? Find out more at: oracle.com/us/corporate/index.html TS IN YABILITY PO LO 15 TS IN Commercial Awareness with the ICAEW educator would look like? Teaching gives you the chance to light the fire of learning and to encourage kids to believe in themselves. It’s an extremely fulfilling profession being able to inspire children to unlock their own potential. Kent-Teach’s 1 hour presentation will take you on a journey to the Future Teachers of Kent. Uncovering how you can transfer your qualifications into becoming an outstanding future teacher! EM P EM P 9.00am-5.00pm SW101 EM P YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN Poster Fair 11.00am-11.30am KLT2 Science students In modern medicine there is more and more reliability on Pathology investigations to enable clinicians to

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