# Careers Service

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## Placement stories

Placements are a great way to boost your employability and are offered by a wide range of courses. The students below all went on year-long placements as part of an industrial or professional experience year. Successfully completing a placement goes well beyond just increasing employability however - putting learning into context, developing discipline and time management in a professional setting, and cultivating vital networks in your field are just some of the benefits identified by the students below.

Your placement could take you anywhere - from Calais helping refugees to Sellafield managing units in a nuclear waste facility, the possibilities are endless!

All the videos below were filmed over eight weeks by a summer intern at the careers department.

### Alison Jarvis

Alison’s placement was with the Medical Research Council in the Gambia – placements could take you anywhere!

### Brandon Holmes

Brandon talks about how his placement has informed his future career choices.

### Ben Lister

Ben’s placement secured him an amazing graduate job with a tech company and gave him the discipline to excel in third year.

### Callum Robinson

Callum tells us about his placement year at Sellafield nuclear plant and the influence it’s had on what he wants to do next.

### Sam Dover

Sam talks about his placement with Unilever and how it helped him knuckle down in his final year.

### Alex Taylor

Alex tells us about his placement with Sanofi and how it’s really prepared him for the world of work.

### Nick Bull

Nick’s placement with Reckitt Benckiser gave him first-hand experience of being a valued member of a large transnational corporation.

### Eugene Khor

Eugene talks about his placement at an oil refinery, and how it set him up for success with his final-year project.

### Freya Abbott

Freya organised her own placement in Calais working with migrants and refugees.

### Tom Watson

Tom’s placement was at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales – he talks about how the placement put what he’d learnt into perspective.

### Mojib Ali

Mojib Ali shares how he has used skills and knowledge developed in his Psychology degree within his placement year and how gaining experience along with a degree is powerful.

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