Employability
Employability and the School of Science
The School of Science is committed to producing excellent graduates that are tremendously attractive to prospective employers. We have an excellent record for sending graduates into interesting and rewarding careers.
We are committed to working with you to enhance your employment prospects. Our work begins at level 1 when we introduce you to Personal Development Planning. This is a process of helping you to appreciate your growing subject knowledge and skills, wider transferable skills and personal attributes, which will continue to grow and evolve through your period of learning with us. A good reflective Personal Development Portfolio will enable you to become a much stronger applicant for the sorts of jobs to which you aspire.
We are also strongly committed to enhancing your learning and personal development through work placement opportunities related to your subjects of study, and to recognize the transferable skills you may be developing in a wider range of part-time jobs. Working closely with our Guidance and Employability Team (GET) at the Medway Campus, we maintain a list of placement and other employment and volunteering opportunities. Details are available on our web site, on a dedicated notice board in Grenville Building, on the university portal and e-mail and on our School information screen. We urge you to consider taking up placement opportunities as they greatly strengthen your employment prospects upon graduation.
There are great opportunities for you to enhance your employability by studying at a continental European university through the ERASMUS/SOCRATES programme. This is an EU supported scheme of student and staff exchange. Currently you have the chance to study in the Netherlands, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Students are sometimes put off by the fear of having to attend classes in a foreign language and by concerns about cost. There is no need for worry as there are many opportunities to study in English on ERASMUS exchanges.