{"id":4502,"date":"2016-06-01T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:32:27","slug":"exploring-the-uk-in-my-placement-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/06\/01\/exploring-the-uk-in-my-placement-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the UK during my placement year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a third year BA (Hons) Events Management<\/a> student at BU, currently on placement at Bournemouth University.<\/p>\n

In fact, a placement year was one of the most important factors while I was applying for university.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to do during my placement year, I just wanted to get as much experience as possible and unlike some of my friends I didn\u2019t only look at massive companies in London. I did some research about smaller as well as bigger companies, just to keep my options open.<\/p>\n

I started thinking about my placement quite early, to have enough time to get some experience before applying to make my applications stronger. I volunteered at plenty of sporting events as well as music festivals. All of the volunteering opportunities helped me realise what I really want to do after I graduate. At this point in life I really want to go into music events, preferably music festivals. I even have a dream of having my own festival one day!<\/p>\n\"Glastonbury\"\n

Some people don\u2019t understand why I chose to spend my placement year working for my uni, some people even think I just couldn\u2019t get any other placements. The little they know about the whole interview process I had to go through!<\/p>\n

Volunteering has opened up doors into my dream career before my year out, therefore I wanted to try something different for my placement. Before I started applying I stopped to think what I needed to work on. It turned out that even though my CV was packed with experience I have never actually worked in an office environment.<\/p>\n\"UCAS-stand\"\n

I used My Career Hub while looking for a placement, and that\u2019s where I found a job advert for my current placement at Bournemouth University as UK Student Recruitment Assistant.<\/p>\n

I liked the fact that it\u2019s not just a typical 9-5 job and I\u2019m not sat at my desk 5 days a week. In fact over the last month I have only been in the office for 3 days!! I have been out at events most of the time. Another perk of my placement is TRAVELLING!! I get the opportunity to visit lots of amazing places all over the UK, places I haven\u2019t been to before.<\/p>\n\"Spinaker-Tower\"\n

Going to UCAS conventions enables me to explore even more new places. I\u2019ll have been to 15 UCAS conventions this year \u2013 over March, April and June. Each convention is 1-2 days long which means one thing \u2013 lots of travelling and staying at hotels all over the place.<\/p>\n\"Map\"\n

My first UCAS was in Manchester, which was really exciting as I have never been up North before. In fact London was the furthest I\u2019d been.<\/p>\n\"Manchester\"\n

There\u2019s nothing better than an opportunity for travelling for free! I actually get paid to go away and stay in Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Cornwall etc.<\/p>\n

If you are looking at picking your placement right now my piece of advice would be: don\u2019t look at what your friends are doing, just pick something that can benefit you and make your CV stronger! And if you get to travel around that\u2019s always a bonus. You will also learn what you do and don\u2019t like during that year. Make the most of it!<\/p>\n

By Agata Bak<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a third year BA (Hons) Events Management student at BU, currently on placement at Bournemouth University. In fact, a placement year was one of the most important factors while I was applying for university. I wasn\u2019t sure what I wanted to do during my placement year, I just wanted to get as much… Read more » about Exploring the UK during my placement year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,730,535,130,48,731,315,69,42,40],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-agata-bak","tag-ba-hons-events-management","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-events-degrees","tag-placements","tag-students","tag-ucas","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13759,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/13759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}