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Placements and Employability Fair

The Employability and Placements Team were delighted to hold the first in-person event for two years this week. The Placements and Employability Fair took place in Elm House Atrium and was the last event of our Employability Week. The fair was attended by recruiters from local and regional businesses who were offering opportunities…

University of Brighton students urged to go global as funding for international work and study scheme is confirmed

Students will be supported to study and work abroad following the university’s successful bid for funding from the government’s new Turing Scheme. Canada, Japan, the United States, Hong Kong and Malaysia are among the destinations where Brighton students will be funded to take up life-changing education and training placements – alongside European neighbours including Germany,…

Student shares fantastic insights into his internship

Final year Business Management student Georges Nikolic shared some fantastic insights into his internship with Dr. Hasan Gilani. George’s internship is at The Borgen Project that focuses on global poverty and hunger and he is one of 5% of people who got through the recruitment process. The scope of the internship ranges from HR, journalism,…

Watch graduation 2019 live

It’s nearly time for the final University of Brighton graduation ceremony for our amazing Brighton Business School graduates, the hall is bustling with activity and there are some incredibly proud family and friends in the audience. But if you couldn’t make it and want to watch the ceremony live then you can still watch…

Georgia’s placement year

Georgia Byrne is studying International Event Management BA(Hons) with us and decided to take the optional year in industry after the second year of her course. Georgia is working at St Wilfrid’s Hospice and we caught up with her to find out more about her placement and her course to date: “I chose to study event…

Black and in Business is BACK!!!

Brighton Business School alumni, Marvin Okai and Denzil Lawrence, are back at university to talk about their journey to becoming Chartered Accountants and why they developed their blog Black and in Business to share their experience. After graduation, they created the blog with the aim of providing students with insight into their journey to work….

Maximising Your University Experience

You know the saying, “you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone”? This is the feeling I fear after finishing university. I don’t want to look back on my time at university, facing the competitive job market, and regret not utilising the resources that were available to me. I’ve seen friends graduate in Summer…

Placement hunting, the ups and the downs

As the quest for graduate jobs begin, I’m left reflecting on my placement year and how I ever managed to secure such an amazing role. I should probably introduce myself, I’m Paige, a final year Marketing Management student at the University of Brighton. Let’s rewind back to second-year, it’s November 2016 and placements are the…