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3 To avoid disappointment please book your place via: www.kent.ac.uk/ces/empfest MONDAY 26 OCTOBER EM P All students This talk will help you to identify a suitable structure for your CV and help you to showcase your skills to employers. It will also help you to market yourself in order to gain work using social media. EM P EM P YABILITY PO LO YABILITY PO LO 10 TS IN FDM – A Day in the Life of an IT Consultant YABILITY PO LO 10 2.00pm-3.00pm KS11 EM P FDM Stand in Keynes Atrium from 12.00pm-1.00pm. FDM Presentation from 1.00pm2.00pm KLT3 Final year students So far in 2015 FDM has recruited over 500 graduates onto its award winning graduate programme, but only a quarter of which came from computer science backgrounds. “A day in the life of an IT consultant” will highlight how graduates from a variety of different backgrounds can get into IT and Business Humanities Placement Year – Find out more! YABILITY PO LO 10 3.00pm-4.00pm KLT2 Year 1 and 2 humanities students Thinking about taking a placement year or want to find out more about the benefits of taking a placement year? Come along to this session if you are interested in undertaking a placement between stages 2 and 3 of your studies and the support available. TS IN Postgraduate students Your guide to writing a successful research paper with Dr David Roberts Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation 10 10.00 am-11.00am CNWsr5 5 Mastering CVs and Applications All students This talk will help you to identify a suitable structure for your CV and help you to showcase your skills to employers. It will also help you to market yourself, using social media, in order to gain work. YABILITY PO LO 1.00pm-2.00pm MarLT2 TS IN Mastering CVs and Applications Writing a research paper TS IN All students Improve your Excel skills and find out how to use it for business analysis. A practical stand-alone course for students on the Canterbury Campus. Excel is a crucial tool and high in demand by today’s employers. This course is free of charge and run by Kent Business School to refresh your knowledge of the fundamentals of Excel. 30 places are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. To reserve your place and get your practice data, email Irena Jennings [email protected] TS IN 10.00am-12.00pm CC02 All students Come and meet the International Festival of Projections team and find out about student opportunities to gain real industry experience. Opportunities include festival and event delivery; working with artists, curators and performers; managing audiences and customer service; and the possibility of delivering your own project as part of the festival in March 2016. consultancy roles, and what it really means to be a technical or business IT consultant. FDM is Britain’s largest listed IT services provider and the UK’s leading IT graduate employer. We have launched the IT and business careers of thousands of talented graduates through our award-winning Graduate Programme. F