We were delighted
to welcome a number of placement providers alongside YIBs who have already
experienced placements to our YIB event on October 10th for the 2nd
year students. All spent the evening engaging and providing advice to 2nd
year students from Royal Holloway’s School of Business and Management who are
eagerly seeking a placement year for 2023/24.
Companies included Alphasights, De
Vere , Enterprise Rent a Car, GE Power, Hays, One Advisory, Samsung.It was fantastic to
see the buzz in the Moore building with the return of this face to face event
and we know both students and placement providers enjoyed the pizza!
The evening started
with some inspiring words from the new Executive Dean for the School of Business and Management, Christos Tsinopoulos. We were also lucky to be joined by former YIBs , Andrea Totaro and Michael
Djan who spoke passionately about the benefits of a placement year. Andrea received
a graduate offer of SAP Chief of Staff following his placement with the
company. Former YIB Michael Djan used his placement at SAP to help him secure a
graduate finance role at De Vere group. Andrea reminded 2nd years that
“A placement year is the best thing that you can do at University” while
Michael reminded students of the opportunity it provides to evaluate potential
career options in a safe environment.
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| Andrea Totaro |
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| Michael Djan |
A number of YIBs currently out on placement or back for their
final year chatted informally to the 2nd years and shared insights
from their placements at Advantage Smollan, Awin, Deloitte, E-Com, Kantar WorldPanel,
L’Oreal, Mattel, Menzies LLP, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, PwC, Rolls Royce, Sanctuary
Graduates, The Walt Disney Company, Volkswagon, MBK bank (Hungary), while
others talked about how they self sourced their placements. Thank you for all
your support for the Year in Business programme!
Matthew Lappin
talked to students about his tax placement at RSM and you can read more here: https://yearinbusiness.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-tax-placement-at-rsm.html
2nd
years now have a weekly series of workshops to support them as they make their
placement applications for the year ahead. Any questions should be directed to
the Placement Place office – MN-YIB@rhul.ac.uk
