{"id":11,"date":"2021-03-17T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T15:50:03","slug":"career-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Employability blog. This blog provides information and advice to help you achieve the career you want. It will be updated regularly with the latest news, opportunities, internships and graduate jobs, as well as the opportunities available at the University of Kent to help you improve your employability.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Contact us<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This site is updated by the Employability &amp; Placements team for Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. You can contact us by emailing <a href=\"mailto:cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk\">cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Ayres<\/strong> &#8211; Employability and Placements Manager, email: <a href=\"mailto:K.Ayres@kent.ac.uk\">K.Ayres@kent.ac.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikki Ellis<\/strong> \u2013 Employability and Placements Manager, email: <a href=\"mailto:N.j.Ellis@kent.ac.uk\">N.j.Ellis@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provides placement support for SMSAS and Engineering students registered on the Year in Industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Buchan<\/strong> \u2013 Employability and Placements Officer, email <a href=\"mailto:cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk\">cemsemployability@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provides employability support to all students in Computing, Engineering and SMSAS at any stage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frances Reading<\/strong> \u2013 Employability and Placements Assistant, email: <a href=\"mailto:F.Reading@kent.ac.uk\">F.Reading@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Rogers<\/strong> &#8211; Academic Employability Lead for SMSAS, email <a href=\"mailto:I.Rogers@kent.ac.uk\">I.Rogers@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provides support particularly in relation to roles in Financial Services, including actuarial roles.<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Careers and Employability Service<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Careers and Employability Service are available to help any student achieve their career goals, while at university and for three years after you graduate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/index.html\">Careers and Employability website<\/a> has useful information on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job hunting<\/li>\n<li>Career research<\/li>\n<li>Applications<\/li>\n<li>Events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also view vacancies, book appointments for a CV\/application review, have a mock interview or receive Careers Guidance, through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Target Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science Employability blog. This blog provides information and advice to help you achieve the career you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsas-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}