{"id":3171,"date":"2026-06-26T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:50:54","slug":"an-interview-with-daniel-comley-bsc-economics-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2026\/06\/26\/an-interview-with-daniel-comley-bsc-economics-student\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Daniel Comley, BSc Economics student"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We met up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/person\/1607040\">Daniel<\/a>, a second-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate-2026\/economics\/bsc-economics-with-professional-placement-or-study-abroad\/\">Economics<\/a> student, to find out more about his experience of finding and securing a placement, and the advice he has for other students.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Student Success stories interview\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1202474576?h=26ef9c4987&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you're going on placement this year, the Skills Centre is running <a href=\"https:\/\/unihub.bath.ac.uk\/students\/infopages\/detail\/758\">a series of pre-placement workshops<\/a> exclusively for you. Taking part in these sessions will help you to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>understand what employers expect when you move from being a student to a professional<\/li>\n<li>build confidence in how you present yourself and your work<\/li>\n<li>communicate more effectively with colleagues, managers, and stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>avoid common placement pitfalls and feel better prepared for real\u2011world working environments<\/li>\n<li>make a positive, professional impact from the start of your placement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are practical, skills\u2011focused workshops that you can immediately apply in the workplace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met up with Daniel, a second-year Economics student, to find out more about his experience of finding and securing a placement, and the advice he has for other students. If you're going on placement this year, the Skills Centre...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[753,754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-placements","category-student-story"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2026\/06\/Blog-post-images-42.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}