IBM will be here on 20th February to run a mock assessment centre.
BBS student Dan who is currently on placement at IBM will be on hand with colleagues to go through how to handle an assessment day and what you should do and not do. This session is essential for anyone who has applied for IBM roles or who has a forthcoming assessment centre at any company.
The event will run from 10:00 to 12:00
Please book on JobTeaser.
See you there!
Following on from my recent workshop ‘Interview Questions: How to answer them & How to ask them’, this post gives hints as to how to answer the common interview question: ‘Why do you want to do this job’?
Your answer should probably answer one or more of the following different questions.
If, for example, you are applying for a Marketing role, answer the following:
So, you might talk about:
I hope this helps!
Dear all,
IBM will be opening their 12-month ‘Business Placement’ roles for applications from 9am on Monday 11th February to 5pm on Friday 15th February. They intend for this to be the last time they open any IBM Placement roles for 2019.
They strongly encourage all candidates to ‘register their interest’ on their website, against the role you are most interested in https://www-05.ibm.com/employment/uk-en/undergraduate.html, and you will be notified as soon as your chosen role is live and available to apply to. The initial application is very short and straightforward and should take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
Their role videos are attached below which include current University Placement students who are doing these job role talking about what it entails.
Business Placement role video
They have also included below some short videos explaining their University Placement scheme, and the application process you will go through.
IBM’s University Placement Scheme: https://youtu.be/oXi7IxfUCCI
IBM’s University Placement Scheme – Application Process: https://youtu.be/U9jXados834
If you need help with an IBM application, book an appointment with us in the Employability Hub on JobTeaser.
Best of luck!
| Free workshop: A Crash Course in Using Social Media for Business
Wednesday 6 February 2019, 5.30–7.30pm
This workshop will be delivered by Kerry Watkins (pictured) of top consultancy Social Brighton. Kerry is founder, trainer and consultant at the organisation, which helps businesses learn to manage social media successfully in-house. She designs and delivers tailored social media training solutions for clients and runs regular workshops in Social Media Strategy, Content, Facebook Ads and LinkedIn training courses. |
Last week, I led a seminar on Interview Questions: ‘How to answer them & How to ask them’.
This post gives hints as to how to answer the common question: ‘Why do you want to work for us’?
Your answer is likely to touch on some of the following:
Resources that will help you:
Dear all,
I am running a workshop Wednesday 16th January, 1pm to 2pm.
This workshop will help you understand what questions you should expect at interview, how to prepare your answers and how to deliver them. It will also help you to prepare questions to ask your interviewers.
It will be ‘hands-on’!
Please book via email at: l.rush@brighton.ac.uk
Thank you!
Dear all,
It is the last day of term! Phew! I hope that you all have had a successful start to your second year.
The Holidays are a great time to making those placement applications. (But rest up too!)
If you would like to see me next week, I am around and have appointments on JobTeaser till Thursday (20th).
You can email me too at l.rush@brighton.ac.uk
The university and the Placement Office / Employability Hub is closed from 4pm Friday 21st December and reopens on 2nd January. So, no emails will be dealt with during this time. We will be too busy helping Santa.
If you do need help whilst we are away, take a look at the ‘Tips and Advice’ section on this blog. See the top tool bar. There are some resources there to help you.
There is still plenty of time to get a placement. There are still plenty of jobs available.
Finally, enjoy the holidays! Yay!
I have just received an update from Zain, one of our students working in Marketing, PR and Business Development for The House of Hud. She is really enjoying herself and the vacancy to replace her is still available. All details are on JobTeaser: https://brighton.jobteaser.com/en/
The House of Hud has just won an award at The Wedding Industry Awards 2018 – Regional Winner – Venue Stylist – South East. Congratulations to them! The picture features Zain (far right), Katherine Hudson (next to her) and our other placement student there – Charlotte.
‘I am an international student from Jordan, and when I first started my course in Business Management with Marketing at the University of Brighton, I wanted to take every opportunity such education could offer. So I was eager to take a placement year, to get a glimpse of work life and test the waters of the field of my future career.
I am currently a Marketing Executive at House of Hud, which is a local company located just 40 minutes away from Brighton. There, and because it is a small-scale business, I speak my mind knowing that my voice is heard, and I feel appreciated for being a student with a fresh mentality.
Work-life significantly differs from student-life, and in a very good way; it has shaped my lifestyle into a healthy and active one. Having a job has inspired me to better manage my time, hence allowing me to think of interests, hobbies, and activities with which I want to fill up my free time.
Moreover, placement year has reminded me of my capacity to learn; I overcame anxieties about not having enough knowledge, and soon realized that I can learn along the way and pick up new skills. It’s also nice to be exposed to different tasks; one day I find myself handling web-design, another day I’m helping crew members set up for a photoshoot, or I’m attending an awards ceremony.
My journey so far has been eye-opening; in addition to communicating with other people from the industry, I’ve also explored more sides to the world of marketing and management. Work-environment at House of Hud especially promotes creativity and flexibility; it’s driven me to hunt for inspiration, whether I was working at the office, from a coffee shop in town, or from the comfort of my home.
All in all, placement year is a great example of the continuous nature of learning; it has allowed me to apply the lessons I’ve learn at university to real life situations, and now I look forward to applying lessons learnt from work to the coursework I’ll be doing in my final year’.
Don’t forget: their vacancies are still available!
I have just had an update from Matt, one of our Placement Students at Computacenter. He is really doing a great job with a great company. Why not apply for one of their placement roles?
I’m Matt, an undergraduate studying Business Management at Brighton. I am currently on a 13 month placement with Computacenter. I am working within the Customer Value team, so my job is consulting service managers on how to deliver maximum value to our customers such as: Channel 4, the NHS, Heathrow Airport, Royal Mail and many more big names! I do this by specialising in 3 things: innovation, value add and continual service improvement. This is with the outcome of growing and renewing contracts.
The culture here is brilliant, everyone is friendly and you can interact with the leadership team very easily considering the size of Computacenter – more than 14,000 employees worldwide and revenues over £3.7bn!
There are lots of great opportunities, in my fourth month I hosted my own event on Presentation Skills which was backed by the UK Managing Director.
Brighton has a very good placement track record with Computacenter as 4 students have been selected over the past 2 years. Get in touch with Leigh and the placements team to book onto our mock assessment centre in January!
Feel free to ask me any questions via Linkedin:
Relevant sites:
https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/company-profile/2897/computacenter
https://www.computacenter.com/uk/careers/future-talent/industrial-placements
I have just received this from Elisa, who is a University of Brighton student on placement at Warner Brothers. She is having a really rewarding time.
‘I am the current intern for the Warner Bros. Finance and Business Development placement at Filmbankmedia.
My job consists in a variety of different tasks I am expected to complete both weekly and monthly, such as managing international accounts, placing film orders, creating newsletters, amending contracts and update variance analyses.
In addition, I was involved in new business research to expand the company’s business in various parts of Europe and Latin America and my team has been incredibly supportive in every step, allowing me to grow confidence and experience in various fields due to the amount of responsibilities I have been trusted with from the start.
They have a really great program and I am learning so much!’
You can discover more about the program here: https://jobsearch.warnerbrosplacements.co.uk/jobs/search/-1/3
If you need help with your application, please book an appointment with the Advisor for your degree course via JobTeaser.
Be quick – the applications will close first week of January!
Best of luck!
