YEAR IN INDUSTRY
A Year in Industry is an opportunity to spend a year in employment during your studies, and is available to all undergraduate students studying within the School of Management. It will provide you with invaluable experience in the real working world and will help you develop a range of skills which will make you an attractive candidate for jobs after graduating.
There are countless benefits to completing a Year in Industry; and we’re proud that we can offer placement opportunities as part of all our undergraduate courses. Our Year
in Industry degrees are four-year degree programmes, where your third year is spent working in industry. The12 month placement is a credit-bearing (worth 120 credits), assessed part of a 4 year degree programme. This means that your performance on the assessment and completion of the placement will have an impact on your final degree classification, just as a year of taught modules would. OUR EMPLOYER LINKS INCLUDE Although securing a placement is the responsibility of the student, we work with a number of organisations who provide a range of placement opportunities. If you are unable to secure a placement by the end of the second year of your studies you will transfer onto the final year of your degree programme.
Modules I took throughout the first and second year allowed me to develop and improve upon skills such as mathematics, problem solving, teamworking and communicating effectively. These skills greatly improved my integration within the workplace and meant that I was able to keep pace with my peers. This placement has improved many different skills that will help with the coming modules I have selected for my final year. Another benefit is that it allows you to see what it’s like working a full-time role in a competitive work environment. This ‘taster’ will help after university when it comes to working this type of role and getting into the right working mind-set.
ALEX GRIMWOOD Placement: PwC | Position: Audit Associate
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