{"id":2434,"date":"2026-04-16T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:22:31","slug":"summer-employability-festival-and-part-time-jobs-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/04\/16\/summer-employability-festival-and-part-time-jobs-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Employability Festival and Part-Time Jobs Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summer Employability Festival (27 April &#8211; 1 May)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take advantage of a range of events designed to help you excel in the next steps of your career journey.<\/p>\n<p>Our Summer Festival focuses on work experience and part-time jobs, with highlights including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building your Experience at Kent pop-up \u2013 <em>featuring representatives from the GOLD Programme, Peer Assisted Learning scheme, Employability Points Scheme, Jobshop, the Student Ambassador Scheme and more!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Discover internships abroad with CRCC Asia<\/li>\n<li>Developing experience for a career in writing and publishing panel<\/li>\n<li>Part-time Job CV Clinic<\/li>\n<li>Creating your professional brand with <em>BeeBee Communications<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Access the full programme of events here: <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/events\/focus\/empfest-events\">Employer Events &#8211; Careers and employability service &#8211; University of Kent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Events are <strong>open to students from all stages and schools<\/strong> and are a mix of online and in-person sessions (Canterbury campus). Some have limited spaces, so check the website and book your place ASAP.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<u>Part-Time Jobs Fair (Thursday 30 April)<\/u><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/whats-on\/event\/80660\/part-time-jobs-fair-2026\">kent.ac.uk\/whats-on\/event\/80660\/part-time-jobs-fair-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10am \u2013 2pm on the Lawn outside Templeman Library*, Canterbury campus<br \/>\n*weather permitting, please register to keep up-to-date in case of venue change<\/li>\n<li>The Part-Time Jobs Fair welcomes a small selection of employers who are looking to speak with students about part-time, seasonal and temporary vacancies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the Fair there will also be a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Part-time Job CV Clinic: <\/strong>We will be running a drop-in CV Clinic just outside the Fair, where you can receive CV advice from the Careers team.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Calm Admission: <\/strong>10am -10:30am is Calm Admission. We know that a careers fair can be daunting. Crowds can make some individuals feel anxious or cause concerns about physical access. The Careers Service will be starting the Fair with a calmer 30 minute slot. This is intended to give you time to meet with employers in a less crowded space before our main event begins (you are of course welcome to stay for this too).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We look forward to you joining us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Employability Festival (27 April &#8211; 1 May) Take advantage of a range of events designed to help you excel in the next steps of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/04\/16\/summer-employability-festival-and-part-time-jobs-fair\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40175,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,223276],"tags":[9658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}