{"id":1584,"date":"2020-10-02T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:08:01","slug":"empfest20-and-virtual-careers-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/10\/02\/empfest20-and-virtual-careers-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"EmpFest20 and Virtual Careers Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">EmpFest20, 12-23 October including a virtual Careers Fair on Tuesday 20 October<\/p>\n<h1>EmpFest20<\/h1>\n<h3>Canterbury and Medway 12 October &#8211; 23 October<\/h3>\n<p>EmpFest returns for 2020 but will be a virtual Festival.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduate Employers and Kent Alumni<\/li>\n<li>Online presentations and workshops<\/li>\n<li>Explore Careers, build your network and your skills<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Careers Fair, 20 October, 10.00-16.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the full programme of events and fair exhibitor list at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/empfest\">www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/empfest<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Virtual Careers Fair: 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>Tuesday 20 October 2020, 10:00-16:00<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Virtual Careers Fair is an opportunity for students of all degree subjects to meet with exhibitors offering a variety of graduate and undergraduate opportunities, ranging from Graduate Schemes, Year in Industry placements and Summer Internships to Insight Days.<\/p>\n<p>Download the CareerFair Plus app for free to browse the exhibitors and book 1-2-1 chats with recruiters in a virtual meeting room. Appointments are being offered throughout the day so students can choose a time that suits them.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibitor list is on the CareerFairPlus app now.<\/p>\n<p>Bookings for 1-2-1 appointments will open on 1 October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our FAQs below and the video demo below to see how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Many of our exhibitors are also offering presentations and skills workshops during the Virtual Employability Festival so why not take the opportunity to do a bit of research before your appointment! You can view the programme of events (coming soon).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers Fair App<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Careers Fair Plus\u00a0 &#8211; A full-featured iPhone, iPad and Android App that puts the power to prepare for fairs in your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Search for Careers Fair Plus on the App store and Google Play store<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete employer listing<\/li>\n<li>Interactive floorplan<\/li>\n<li>Event details<\/li>\n<li>Announcements for real-time updates<\/li>\n<li>Filter and search for opportunities by degree subject, sector or business area<\/li>\n<li>View exhibitor profiles<\/li>\n<li>book short 1-2-1 appointments to talk to recruiters<\/li>\n<li>Fair tips to hep you prepare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EmpFest20, 12-23 October including a virtual Careers Fair on Tuesday 20 October EmpFest20 Canterbury and Medway 12 October &#8211; 23 October EmpFest returns for 2020 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/10\/02\/empfest20-and-virtual-careers-fair\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9658,112,184915,184554,205104,5343,205133,205122,205130,205131,205132,37392,178026],"tags":[9658,872,175901,143073,170397,184942,9666,184950,184926,145910,818,149978,37392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}