Professional Placement Year

Why should you consider doing a placement?

“The number of work experience places available at the UK’s leading graduate employers is expected to increase by 3.0% in 2020s” 

High Fliers 2020

A year in industry offers you the opportunity to explore a role in an organisation over a 6 – 12 month period. You will complete your year in industry in your third year, after your first two years of study and then return to complete your fourth and final year

The aims of a placement are:

• to prepare you for your final stage studies through a placement in a relevant business function and help you make an informed career choice when you graduate;
• to give you an appreciation of the business environment through hands-on experience;
• to give you opportunities to take what you've learned in the classroom out into the wider world.

Help and support

While it is your responsibility to find a placement, there is dedicated support on offer to you from the School to help you find a placement and prepare for your year in industry. We will help you to identify suitable opportunities, make applications and prepare for interviews, secure a role, and monitor and support you during your placement.

Available for all Christ Church Business School students

• A year in industry is available to all undergraduate students studying a Christ Church Business School programme, including single and combined honours.
• Previous students have worked at companies such as Cummins, Enterprise rent a Car, Church & Dwight , Instron,  Barbour, Russell Publishing, Vauxhall, P&O Ferries, CCCU, Nike, Medway Community Health Care to name a few. You can read about our students' experiences by reading our student work placement profiles.  

For more information contact the Employability Manager on: julian.glover@canterbury.ac.uk

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