Group at Sandwich Guidhall Musuem Experience Day

Want to get rewarded over the summer and get a paid internship? 

Act now as the Employability Points deadline is fast approaching! The deadline to log your points is the 10 March 2025. Make sure that you have over at least 50 points to be able to apply for the rewards taking place this summer.

What are Employability Points? 

Employability Points is a scheme which gives you points for doing co-curricular activities and activities which contribute to making you more employable. With those points, you have the opportunity to apply for exclusive rewards in the summer which range from a paid summer internships, to winning a University of Kent hoodie. You can log any qualifying activity as long as you have been at university when you have participated, including if it took place in September of your first year!

Stephen and Ben smiling wearing Medway Norse t shirts

Kent student Stephen with Ben at Medway Norse. Stephen did the Wildlife Conservation Internship.

Opportunities

All our opportunities are exclusive to the University of Kent. We have opportunities across several sectors with different sizes of companies.

We have:

  • The SEO company Studio Hawk offering a marketing internship based in London
  • AbBaltis Ltd based in Sittingbourne are offering a lab-based internship
  • FX Digital is offering a quality engineering internship based in London for connected TV platforms based in London
  • The Powell-Cotton Museum is offering an internship based on their collections in Birchington-on-Sea
  • Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce is offering a management account analyst internship in Ashford
Sevara, Faye and staff member smiling

Students Sevara and Faye did the Studio Hawk Marketing Internship.

 

You need 200 or more points to be able to apply for up to four internships and all of these are paid internships over the summer. In addition to the paid internships, we have work experience placements with Porchlight, Becket Chambers, Canterbury Cathedral, The Royal Engineering Museum, Medway Council, Franciscan Gardens, Stilwell and Singleton and many more. This doesn’t include our experience days with Cook Food, The Crown Prosecution Service and Sandwich Guildhall Museum to name a few.

Group of students and staff

FX Digital Experience Day.

 

The reward pack which outlines all of the rewards you can earn will be released on 3 March and will be available on our website from then. We will be emailing the reward pack to everybody on the scheme.

Don’t miss out, log your points and earn rewards.