{"id":184,"date":"2015-11-09T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssremployability\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-11-09T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:19:57","slug":"sspssr-employability-blog-9112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2015\/11\/09\/sspssr-employability-blog-9112015\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPSSR Employability Blog 9\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News &amp; Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Careers and Employability Service events this week:<\/p>\n<p>Tues 10 Nov 1 \u2013 2pm KLT5<\/p>\n<p>Teach English in Japan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wed 11 Nov 1 \u2013 2pm KLT6<\/p>\n<p>Would you hire you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wed 11 Nov 2 \u2013 3pm KLT6<\/p>\n<p>Top tips when applying for graduate positions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thurs 12 Nov 12 \u2013 2pm KLT5<\/p>\n<p>Milkround assessment centre workshop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thurs 12 Nov 15:30 \u2013 16:30 KLT2<\/p>\n<p>ACA training opportunities in South East Asia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friday 13 November 12:15 \u2013 12:45pm<\/p>\n<p>Bite-size CV workshop &#8211; Careers and Employability Service (Medway)<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.kent.ac.uk\/leap\/event.html?id=455&amp;service=Careers+Service\">book your place here <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Employability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil Service Fast Stream &#8211; Application Deadline Extension<\/p>\n<p>The closing deadline for all the remaining Fast Stream schemes that are still open has been extended to 30 November.<\/p>\n<p>The schemes that are currently open are the corporate schemes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/civil-service-fast-stream-graduate-schemes\">listed here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teacher Training <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UCAS Teacher Training opening dates for 2016 teacher training are now available on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucas.com\/ucas\/teacher-training\/apply-and-track\/key-dates\/2016\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applicants will be able to search from 6th October before they apply and there\u2019s a useful online guide on how to use the search facility. The relevant sections in the teaching publications are live on targetpostgrad and targetjobs:<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 How do you apply for postgraduate initial teacher education and training?<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Write a great teacher training application<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 How do you train to become a teacher<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BKEW: University of Kent Work Experience Bursary Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have secured some unpaid work experience in the UK, you could be entitled to up to \u00a3100 from the Careers and Employability Service to help with expenses. For further information and eligibility visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kew\"><u>www.kent.ac.uk\/kew<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kent Experiences of Work Network (KEW-NET)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEW-NET<\/strong> is a professional mentoring and networking platform just for students at the University of Kent. The network is made up of alumni and business professionals connected to the University who are offering their support.<\/p>\n<p>Register and you could get:<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Advice via email or telephone<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Help reviewing a CV or application form<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Visits to workplaces or insight days<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Possible work experience or internship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vacancies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facilities and IT Manager<\/p>\n<p>Kent Enterprise House, Herne Bay, Kent<\/p>\n<p>\u00a320-25K<\/p>\n<p>Kent Enterprise Trust [KET] is a charity that has been breaking down the barriers to unemployment for the people in Kent for over 30 years. Our vision is that no one in Kent of employable age should be out of work because they have not had the opportunity to reach their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>They are looking for someone who can fill a role with a broad remit of building services and information management and also develop a new open plan co-working space for start-ups, remote workers and small businesses to work collaboratively with the support of their many partners.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great opportunity for someone to develop their career in Facilities\/IT Management working for a charity with a clear purpose and vision. For further details telephone 01227 844500 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kententerprisetrust.org\/news\/vacancy-for-a-facilities-and-it-manager\">visit the web <\/a><\/p>\n<p>To apply for this vacancy please send your CV along with a cover letter to info@enterprisetrust.org<\/p>\n<p>Closing date Friday 20th November<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internships:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diversity Fair Intern (Medway) \u2013 Kent Union<\/p>\n<p>Salary:<\/p>\n<p>From \u00a36.29 per hour inclusive of holiday<\/p>\n<p>Hours and days of work:<\/p>\n<p>Generally 5 hours a week for 14 weeks, starting in the first week of December. Days can be flexible but must have some hours on either a Monday, Wednesday or Thursday. The candidate must be available on Wednesday 16th March to run and oversee the Diversity Fair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/careers\/student-positions\/\"><u>http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/careers\/student-positions\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News &amp; Events: Careers and Employability Service events this week: Tues 10 Nov 1 \u2013 2pm KLT5 Teach English in Japan &nbsp; Wed 11 Nov &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2015\/11\/09\/sspssr-employability-blog-9112015\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40399,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143217,143216,143219,143234,143231,9653,143230],"tags":[143222,143235,143221,679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}