{"id":1905,"date":"2020-12-04T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:04:48","slug":"improve-your-employability-over-the-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/12\/04\/improve-your-employability-over-the-winter-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve your employability over the winter break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Gain work experience.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few ways you can gain some work experience and improve your skills over the winter break:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/11\/20\/work-ready-virtual-experience\/\">Work Ready Virtual Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/12\/01\/are-you-interested-in-working-for-microsoft\/\">Microsoft Engineering Asia Virtual Experience programme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/11\/30\/enterprise-computing-coding-contest\/\">Enterprise Computing Coding competition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/10\/21\/kent-i-teams-gain-real-world-experience\/\">Kent I-Teams<\/a> &#8211; Gain real world experience &#8211; deadline extended to 20 January, starts 27 January<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/student\/degree\/computing\/index.html\">Research careers with a computing degree<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/student\/cvs.html\">Update your CV<\/a> and book an appointment with the Careers &amp; Employability service to have it reviewed through <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.kent.ac.uk\/\">Target Connect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gain work experience. Below are a few ways you can gain some work experience and improve your skills over the winter break: Work Ready Virtual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2020\/12\/04\/improve-your-employability-over-the-winter-break\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205105,9658,112,9653,205104,5343,205133,205130,205131,205132,178026],"tags":[9658,504,872,175901,9653,37,149978,9650],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}