{"id":58,"date":"2016-10-25T15:42:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:42:53","slug":"canterbury-empfest-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2016\/10\/25\/canterbury-empfest-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury EmpFest Underway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent\u2019s annual Employability Festival (Canterbury) started on Monday 24th October 2016, and over the following two weeks, there will be hundreds of workshops, employer talks, mock assessment centres and fairs! Students can claim Employability Points for all these activities and some key highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enterprise Rent-a-Car: Employability Skills \u2013 25th October, 11:00-13:00 (Gulb Cinema)<strong> 10 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PwC: Interview testing skills \u2013 25th October, 14:00-15:00 (venue TBC \u2013 check online)<strong> 10 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Science Fair \u2013 Get your \u2018Geek On!\u2019 \u2013 26th October, 12:00-17:00 (venue TBC \u2013 check online) <strong>5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enterprise Rent-a-Car: Mock Assessment Centre \u2013 27th October, 11:000-13:00 (KLT3) <strong>15 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jobshop part-time Recruitment Fair \u2013 27th October, 12:00-15:00 (Keynes Atrium) <strong>5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Saga: Tackling job applications, interviews and assessment days \u2013 28th October, 10:30-12:00 (CNESR1) <strong>10 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>EDA: Careers Fair \u2013 31st October, 12:00-14:00 (EDA foyer) <strong>5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CIM: Becoming a professional marketer \u2013 31st October, 13:00-13:00 (venue TBC \u2013 check online) <strong>10 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Careers Fair 2016 \u2013 1st November, 12:00-15:00 (Sports Centre) <strong>5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Civil Service Fast Stream: Find out more about life as a Civil Servant \u2013 2nd November, 12:00-13:30 (GLT2)<strong> 10 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Teaching Fair \u2013 3rd November, 12:00-15:00 (Keynes Atrium) <strong>5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Languages Fair \u2013 4th November, 12:00-15:00 (Keynes Atrium)<strong> 5 Employability Points<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is just a snapshot of the events available between 24th October and 4th November 2016, and a full list can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joomag.com\/magazine\/employability-festival-2016\/0696148001474634546\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, don\u2019t forget, the EP team will be running the competition: Most Points Logged During the Canterbury Employability Festival. So make sure you get involved with as much as possible!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on EmpFest, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/empfest\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Also check out #EmpFest16 on Twitter!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent\u2019s annual Employability Festival (Canterbury) started on Monday 24th October 2016, and over the following two weeks, there will be hundreds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2016\/10\/25\/canterbury-empfest-underway\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44118,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167695],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}