{"id":5841,"date":"2024-03-12T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:10:59","slug":"in-the-heart-of-the-concrete-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2024\/03\/12\/in-the-heart-of-the-concrete-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"In the heart of the Concrete Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Hear from one of our Year in Industry students, who secured his placement at global Investment bank Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>Tom reflected on his experience:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The placement was an invaluable experience &#8211; I was able to build key skills and knowledge about the financial industry that has proven useful in my final year studies and dissertation research, as well as helping me secure a return offer to my placement employer once I graduate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hulks, Economics with a Year in Industry BSc (Hons)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">&#8220;My role on my placement was working within the bank\u2019s Sales &amp; Trading business, specifically in a team called Prime Brokerage. They help Hedge Fund clients access the bank\u2019s trading platforms, in addition to providing financing, consulting, and loans to clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">The role definitely included a lot of collaboration with other teams so that was a big reason why I enjoyed it!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\" style=\"font-size: 14px\">During the first week of the placement, Tom was featured alongside all incoming industrial placement students and summer interns on the firm\u2019s Times Square billboard on their New York office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fancy adding real-world industry experience to your CV? Find out more about our Year in Industry course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/112\/economics-year-industry\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from one of our Year in Industry students, who secured his placement at global Investment bank Morgan Stanley. Tom reflected on his experience: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2024\/03\/12\/in-the-heart-of-the-concrete-jungle\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9871,37392],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}