{"id":264,"date":"2024-03-12T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-03-12T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:06:22","slug":"kent-ranks-top-50-for-work-experience-and-placements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/03\/12\/kent-ranks-top-50-for-work-experience-and-placements\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent ranks top 50 for Work Experience and Placements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The University of Kent has been listed as one of the top 50 Universities for Work Experience and Placements for the 2024 \u2013 2025 Rate My Placement Awards. <\/p>\n<p>The Careers and Employability Service is proud and excited to be ranked as one of the best organisations for Work Experience and Placements in the National Rate My Placement Awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ratemyplacement.co.uk\/about-us\">RateMyPlacement.co.uk<\/a> is the UK\u2019s leading job board for students seeking paid placements, internships and insight schemes. Unlike other careers sites, Rate My Placement hosts thousands of reviews written by students who have completed work experience.<\/p>\n<p>The awards run by the organisation are based on student feedback and reviews, and therefore highlights Kent as one of the country\u2019s leading institutions for the quality of its support, and the range of opportunities students undertake.<\/p>\n<p>James Corbin, Head of Careers and Employability, said of the award<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2018We are very proud of our students and what they accomplish. The\u00a0Placements Team at Kent work very hard to support students from every discipline to gain experience that helps them make positive decisions about their future or takes them one step closer to their dream job\u2019.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The winners of the 2024\u00a0RateMyPlacement Awards, organised by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ratemyplacement.co.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CM.Golding-777%40kent.ac.uk%7Cf0f03069fbb64501dc3508dc3f541c6b%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638454877680935125%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GJcAT3HbMR9k83FKDJroc%2FURbMTgWFHmwPyl%2FUkUWZI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">RateMyPlacement.co.uk<\/a>, were announced on Wednesday 6th March.\u00a0Five hundred of the industry\u2019s finest came together to celebrate the outstanding achievements of Employers and Universities in undergraduate work experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Kent student or recent graduate and would like support from the Careers and Employability Service, you can reach us through the web on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kent.ac.uk%2Fcareers&amp;data=05%7C02%7CM.Golding-777%40kent.ac.uk%7Cf0f03069fbb64501dc3508dc3f541c6b%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638454877680942065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Qzc4%2Bes%2BVrxOi6IzFyAktexK1HVBYRVPc7nrvVADWpI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">www.kent.ac.uk\/careers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are an employer looking to hire, wanting to give someone some work experience, need some help with a project, or are interested in mentoring current students, contact us on\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hiretalent@kent.ac.uk\">hiretalent@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has been listed as one of the top 50 Universities for Work Experience and Placements for the 2024 \u2013 2025 Rate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/03\/12\/kent-ranks-top-50-for-work-experience-and-placements\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80470,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178072,149528],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}