{"id":594,"date":"2017-09-19T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/?p=594"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:58:48","slug":"placement-team-30-second-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/2017\/09\/19\/placement-team-30-second-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Placement Team - 30 second update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What were we working on last academic year?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7 Working to place around 400 new students into industry.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Supporting 356 Engineering students who are currently working out on placement.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Supporting around 200 Architecture and M-Arch students out on placement.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Encouraging first years through peer to peer sessions and developing their CV skills.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Sourcing new placements with industry.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Supporting the companies with recruitment processes such as writing job descriptions, promoting their business and interviews.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Organising photo shoots, case studies and blog posts to promote placements and update our printed handbooks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What have we been working on this summer?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00b7 Reviewing all 1st year CV\u2019s \u2013 around 400 give or take!<br \/>\n\u00b7 Helping 391 students settle in and get started in their exciting new placements.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Assisting the 356 Engineering students and 160 Architecture students who are returning from placement and have assignment deadlines approaching.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Preparing for our 'Engineering Your Future' fair which will be taking place on the 14th November \u2013 We already have around 20 companies signed up so far!<br \/>\n\u00b7 Getting ready for semester 1 by preparing our employability sessions with outside speakers.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Updating all our placement handbooks and Moodle courses ready for semester 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were we working on last academic year? \u00b7 Working to place around 400 new students into industry. \u00b7 Supporting 356 Engineering students who are currently working out on placement. \u00b7 Supporting around 200 Architecture and M-Arch students out on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[107,149],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-updates","tag-placements","tag-team-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/fedstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}