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Employability Week: Programme of Events
Kent Union – HR
Department
Kent Union – Volunteering
Language Express
www.kentunion.co.uk/eandv
www.kentunion.co.uk/jobs
Volunteering is a great way to gain
hands-on experience and meet new
people whilst giving back to the
local and campus communities and
developing your employability skills.
Currently there are a number of
volunteering opportunities available
for students to get involved with,
including Volunteering Societies,
one-off opportunities and local
charities.
www.kent.ac.uk/languageexpress
Kent Union is the voice of all
students at the University of Kent;
we represent our members to the
University, the communities in which
they live and to wider society
through our membership of the
national student movement.
Kent Union is a successful, vibrant
and exciting organisation, we have
achieved a great deal in the last few
years, more than doubling in size to
our current £11million turnover, 600
employees and 2,000+ volunteers.
We have 350 students working for
us mainly within our Licenced Trade
and Retail Departments. The start of
the Recruitment process for these
roles mainly takes place in January
at our two ‘Recruitment Days’.
Kent Union – Student
Advice Centre
www.kentunion.co.uk/advice or
advice@kent.ac.uk
The student advice centre is a free,
confidential and impartial advice
service run by Kent Union for all
students of the University of Kent.
We can offer you help with any
problems you may experience
which affect your studies. The main
areas we cover are money and
funding, housing, immigration and
visas, but we can also check your
right to work in the UK, review your
employment contract, advise you
how to obtain a national insurance
number or a tax refund and much
more!
Our Toolkit can help connect you
with these opportunities and gives
you a place to quickly and simply
record all your extracurricular
activities and log your volunteering
hours, whether it be volunteering on
a committee, helping out with charity
events or taking part in an
organised litter pick – all of which
can count towards your Kent
Student Certificate for Volunteering
(KSCV).
KEW-NET Mentoring
www.kent.ac.uk/ces/student/
kew-net.html
Our online mentoring network links
currents students and recent
graduates with professionals who
are willing to share advice, give
career insights or offer work
experience. Sign up today to get an
insight into the sector of work you’re
interested in!
Develop your international
communication skills and enhance
your employability with our easyaccess language courses. Choose
from: Arabic, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Mandarin,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
All courses run for 10 weeks in the
autumn term and 10 weeks in the
spring term. Classes are taught in
the evenings so you can fit them
around your timetable.
Learning and Development
www.kent.ac.uk/hrlearninganddevelopment
When an organisation gets the best
out of its people and combines their
skills and capabilities, it boosts its
performance. What’s more, it helps
those individuals discover their own
strengths and potential. It adds up
to a rewarding role for learning and
development (L&D) professionals.
As an L&D specialist, you could be
delivering firearms training for police
officers or development
programmes for fund managers. Or
you could be supporting managers
who are acting as coaches and
mentors. L&D professionals help
organisations implement strategy by
aligning learning with business
priorities. You’ll need to be able to
think on your feet and you’ll benefit
from having strong analytical skills.