{"id":4398,"date":"2016-05-11T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:33:14","slug":"why-should-you-do-a-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/05\/11\/why-should-you-do-a-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should you do a placement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For their placements, Hayley and Hannah\u00a0have stayed right here at Bournemouth University,\u00a0working as Education Outreach Assistants. Here are their thoughts on why a placement is so important.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hannah (left) and Hayley (right) relaxing after a day on the road<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but you\u2019re over-qualified and under-experienced for this job.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The worst, but one of the most frequently heard phrases for graduates when fighting to find their feet on the job ladder after a three year combat of gaining their degree. In reality, getting out into the \u201creal world\u201d isn’t as easy as you\u2019d hope, and not having experience can be one of your biggest hold backs. This is why having a placement year is the most valuable experience you can gain at university.<\/p>\n

Albert Einstein once said, \u201cThe only source of knowledge is experience<\/em>\u201d and he couldn\u2019t have been more right. Placement year is the year where your studies come to life. Everything you’ve learnt becomes reality and now it\u2019s all your job to manage your future.<\/p>\n

So coming from real life placement students here are our top three reasons why you should undertake a placement:<\/p>\n

Transform your theory into practice.<\/strong>\u00a0Placement year puts into context your area of expertise. It\u2019s making it real.<\/p>\n

Hayley: “Consumer behaviour was a module in my 2nd year that I didn’t feel would have much relevance to anything I would do on my placement year. But I couldn’t have been more wrong! For each activity I create I have to know EXACTLY what will engage my target audience to make it a success. This isn\u2019t the easiest thing to do when my audiences are usually indecisive and uninspired teens! But through using some of the techniques learnt, I haven’t failed yet (touch wood!).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\"Freshersfairhannah-ed\"\n

A comfort blanket year to discover what you really want out of your career.<\/strong> Because let\u2019s face it, we\u2019ll all be working to keep this world turning for a long time, so make sure you get on the right path now! Your year as a placement student is all about learning and giving it a go. It\u2019s okay to get things wrong and ask for help. So get this experience before reaching your dream job.<\/p>\n

Hannah: “Before I started placement I was adamant that I wanted to work in HR, thinking I was destined to sit behind a desk and computer, working on the \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d of a business.\u00a0 I had designed my whole degree and career around this, but ended up in an events placement where I spend 70% of my time working with both student ambassadors and our target audience. Luckily for me, turns out I can talk the back legs off a donkey and my real strengths lie in my \u2018people skills\u2019, something I may have found out too late without my placement year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Its gives you a much desired competitive edge.<\/strong> Get your head above the rest. Get ahead of the competition by having a whole year\u2019s worth of industry experience under your belt.<\/p>\n

Placement year is the route to opportunity, your key to networking and professional development. In the cheesiest sense it\u2019s \u201cyour time to shine!\u201d So don\u2019t view a placement year as another year of studying, or a year of being the office tea maker. Take the opportunity of a placement year and discover who you want to be, and where your career will take you.<\/p>\n\"hayley-freshers-fair\"\n

We have both gained more skills then we even thought humanly possible for two previously sheltered and inexperienced university students and with a few months still to go we are convinced we will <\/strong>come out as outreach super heroes!<\/p>\n

By Hayley Paginton, BA (Hons) Events Management<\/a> and\u00a0<\/strong>Hannah Rudley, BA (Hons) Business Studies with Human Resource Management<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For their placements, Hayley and Hannah\u00a0have stayed right here at Bournemouth University,\u00a0working as Education Outreach Assistants. Here are their thoughts on why a placement is so important. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, but you\u2019re over-qualified and under-experienced for this job.\u201d The worst, but one of the most frequently heard phrases for graduates when fighting to find their feet… Read more » about Why should you do a placement?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,706,707,315,69,42,40],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-hannah-rudley","tag-hayley-paginton","tag-placements","tag-students","tag-ucas","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}