Study Plus – Employability Skills in the Summer Term

Study Plus courses are offered by the University, free of charge, to give you the opportunity to explore different areas and skills alongside your degree. They are not credit-bearing, but let you explore new areas, develop new skills and enhance those you already have, and to get more from your time here at Kent. There are several Study Plus courses running during the Summer term that may be of interest to anyone looking to develop their employability skills.

Employability Skills

Start date: Wednesday 17 May (Week 26)
End date: Wednesday 14 June (Week 30)
Time: 17:00-19:00
Number of hours: 10 hours (5 x 2 hour sessions)
Employability Points: 50 points maximum (based on 100% attendance)

This practical course is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and will provide you with the opportunity to:

  • Build a great CV
  • Develop and manage your ‘own brand’ via social media
  • Explore job hunting methods
  • Practice interview techniques
  • Develop key technical and social skills

All sessions will be workshop-based and will take place in a computer suite, providing participants with practical opportunities each week.

If you are interested in this Study Plus course, sign up here.

You may also be interested in the other Study Plus courses running in the Summer term:

Partner Schools’ Teaching Experience Scheme

The Partnership Development Office, in conjunction with the University’s partner secondary schools, would like to introduce you to an exciting teaching experience scheme that we are piloting from September 2017, exclusively for Kent students.

The Partner Schools’ Teaching Experience Scheme has been designed to allow Kent students, who have an interest in entering the teaching profession, a unique insight into teaching, by offering training and paid work opportunities in the classroom.

Part 1 – Students in their penultimate year of study can access paid School Experience Placements, supporting pupils in the classroom in one of the University’s partner secondary schools.

Stage 2 – Students in their final year of study can apply to take on a Direct-Entry Teaching Internship, receiving training and paid work delivering pre-written teaching materials to pupils in our partner schools.  If suitable trainee teacher vacancies arise within our partner schools during this year, this placement could lead to an offer of a salaried direct-entry teacher training position at the school upon graduation.

The scheme offers extensive benefits, including first-hand classroom experience, training and paid work opportunities.  For further information, please see https://www.kent.ac.uk/ambassadors/files/pstes-information-booklet.pdf, or come along to one of our information sessions:

  • Monday 15 May 2017 at 10am (main Registry reception, Canterbury campus)
  • Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 3pm (main Registry reception, Canterbury campus)

To book a place at one of these sessions, please email Olivia McGlone, O.McGlone@kent.ac.uk.

If you wish to apply for the scheme, please go to www.kent.ac.uk/ambassadors/vacancies and then select ‘outreach vacancies’.

If you need any further information, please contact Rebecca Spink on r.spink@kent.ac.uk.

 

Placement opportunity – Gulbenkian Theatre

Have you considered a placement year and would like to find out what it’s like working as part of the technical crew in the University’s Arts Centre?

The Gulbenkian, located on Canterbury campus, is committed to delivering high quality arts programme to the public and has a focus on the creative empowerment of children and young people.  If you want to find out more visit the University’s website or email humsplacements@kent.ac.uk.

If you’d prefer to have a chat face to face visit the Careers and Employability Service to find out more in the first instance.

Paid work: Student Research Assistant with Dr Andrew Cohen

school-of-history-uok-logoFollowing the enormous interest in the two recently advertised Student Research Assistant roles, the School of History is now seeking to appoint a Student Research Assistant to support Dr Andrew Cohen with his research project, ‘’Labour Migration and Labour Relations in South and southern Africa, c.1900-2000’.

The SRA on this project will be expected to undertake a variety of tasks, including:

  • The cataloguing of research materials
  • Obtaining research materials from archives
  • Support for the organisation of conference and other research events
  • Digitisation of records and other sources
  • Support for editorial work (standardising footnotes etc.)
  • Undertaking basic research tasks

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Paid work: Student Research Assistant with Dr John Wills

school-of-history-uok-logoFollowing on from the advert for SRAs to support Dr Emily Manktelow’s project (closing date 23:59 on Sunday 29th January), the School of History is also seeking to appoint a Student Research Assistant to support Dr John Wills with his research project, ‘Depictions of America in Videogames’.

The SRA on this project will be expected to undertake a variety of tasks, including:

  • Researching specific game titles and American themes
  • Obtaining research materials from (mostly online) archives and websites
  • Identifying and organising research materials
  • Potentially playing through titles or making notes on game footage
  • Creating game-related bibliographies
  • Reporting on findings
  • Support for research and editorial work (standardising footnotes etc.)

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Webinar: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

EURES UK are hosting a British Council webinar on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) on Monday 30th January at 2pm-3pm. The session is free to take part in; all you need is to be connected to the internet to tune in. TEFL is a popular route for graduates interested in travel, gaining teaching experience, and expanding their skill base, and the British Council is very active in promoting the option to graduates.

The British Council speaker is from Dubai, and represents recruitment for the Middle East and Africa specifically. She will talk through the recruitment process for the TEFL courses and opportunities generally available through EURES UK. The session will include advice and information on:

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Paid work: Student Research Assistants with Dr Emily Manktelow

school-of-history-uok-logoThe School of History is seeking to appoint three Student Research Assistants to support Dr Emily Manktelow with her research project, ‘The Local and the Global at Canterbury Cathedral’.

This project aims to explore the colonial and global past of Canterbury Cathedral through the empire-related memorials within the cathedral and the archive holdings relating to St. Augustine’s missionary college – an organisation designed to train Anglican missionaries for posts around the British Empire. The project will culminate in an exhibition hosted by the Cathedral, and the creation of public engagement resources on the topic of the project.

What are Student Research Assistants?

The Student Research Assistant scheme is run by the School of History, and gives give you the opportunity to be hired as research assistants (RAs) to work with academics in the School on their research projects. As an RA, you would be contracted as an employee of the School, and paid the National Living Wage for all work undertaken. You would undertake a range of duties to help further the aims of the project, which could include archival research, helping organise a conference and exhibition, and undertaking your own research and learning more about a particular subject to inform your work.

If you are interested in taking on one of these RA roles, the job description is below, and you have until midnight on Sunday 29th January to apply. For details on how to apply, and for more information about Dr Manktelow’s project, see the job description.

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Volunteering Opportunity – Visiting and Revisiting the Western Front

Want to get involved in an exciting research project exploring a fascinating aspect of the First World War?The Gateways to the First World War centre, in collaboration with the Western Front Association, is leading a project to uncover stories about battlefield visits during the 1920s and 1930s and map pilgrimage activity. The findings will be published on a public database. As part of the project they will be researching and recording data from material published in British newspapers, local and national, from this period. Each member of the team will work for a minimum of two days in at the British Library exploring its digitised newspaper collections between March and April 2017 to be followed by events showcasing the results of the research.

If you are interested in taking part in this project, see this poster, and sign-up for the Gateways to the First World War study day on battlefield tourism between 1919 and 1938, on Friday 10 February 2017 in the Swingland Room of the Marlowe Building. To sign up to attend, email gateways@kent.ac.uk.

Paid Position – Kent Union Representation Coordinator

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[Open to alumni only]

Kent Union is currently recruiting to the role of Representation Coordinator (Academic Communities). This role will work closely with the University’s Academic Societies to support them and enhance their work, as well as looking to work with schools to continue to develop and create new academic communities so that all students can find an opportunity to feel a part of a community of learning at Kent.

The recruitment pack can be found on the Kent Union website at https://www.kentunion.co.uk/news/article/11479/Representation-Coordinator-Academic-Communities/.

Paid role – Brand Ambassador for BAE Systems

On-Campus Promotions is recruiting a team of ambitious, enthusiastic and confident Brand Ambassadors to work exclusively for BAE Systems to promote their career opportunities on campus for the academic year starting September 2016. The hired Brand Ambassadors will need to be available to attend a training day at BAE Systems on 19th September 2016. This training day will provide guidance for undertaking the role of Brand Ambassador and will equip you with the relevant skills training.

The deadline for applications is 19th August. For more information and to apply, head to http://bit.ly/2azwHSf.

Work Placements – Animate Arts Company

Animate Arts, a national award-winning arts company making high-quality participatory art projects, is offering a number of work placements throughout August,
working on a voluntary basis on a number of events and projects throughout the month. Based at the Gulbenkian and operating in the Canterbury area, these places are opportunities to get involved in a range of exciting, creative activities with members of the public from all ages and backgrounds.For details and how to apply, click the link below: