{"id":102,"date":"2021-10-15T10:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T09:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/?p=102"},"modified":"2022-03-15T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:31:33","slug":"get-involved-and-rewarded-with-the-employability-points-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/2021\/10\/15\/get-involved-and-rewarded-with-the-employability-points-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Get involved and rewarded with the Employability Points Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Employability Points (EP) Scheme is unique to the University of Kent and is focused on rewarding you with experiences of work for completing co-curricular activities<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Did you know that if you get involved in any co-curricular activity &#8211; which could including attending events, working part-time, joining student groups, volunteering, to name a few &#8211; you can log this on <a href=\"https:\/\/myfolio.kent.ac.uk\/myfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">MyFolio<\/a>. When you do this, the EP team will review your activities and allocate you Employability Points!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">You have until the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March 2022 to log as many activities as possible and if you earn enough points, you can apply for exclusive rewards. These include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Paid summer internships (200 points required)<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Short-term work experience (150 points required)<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Work shadowing opportunities (100 points required)<\/li>\n<li class=\"x_MsoListParagraph\">Skills development session and experience days (75 points required).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">All EP rewards are undertaken during the summer break and there are opportunities available across multiple sectors and industries!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">If you would like to find out more, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employability-points\">Employability Points page online<\/a>\u00a0or contact the team via <a href=\"mailto:employabilitypoints@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">employabilitypoints@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Matt Cook, Careers and Employability, on 15.10.21<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to comment on or contribute to a podcast or article for Student Services, email us at <a href=\"mailto:StudentServicesWeb@kent.ac.uk\">StudentServicesWeb@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW113186311 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113186311 BCX0\">Check out further articles on <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW113186311 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/careers-and-employability#articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW113186311 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113186311 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Careers and Employability.<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"EOP SCXW113186311 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Employability Points (EP) Scheme is unique to the University of Kent and is focused on rewarding you with experiences of work for completing co-curricular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/2021\/10\/15\/get-involved-and-rewarded-with-the-employability-points-scheme\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57635,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209528],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}