Last week a number
of companies joined our Speed Recruitment event in the Business school at Royal
Holloway. I would like to express a huge thank you to the representatives from Cherith
Simmons, Enterprise Rent a car, FDM, GE Power, Kerry, Menzies LLP, RSM and Twentyai
for taking the time to speak to our students about the placement opportunities
available at their companies. Tables for Amazon, Awin, Pfizer and Rolls Royce were
also manned by current Year in Business students who had been on placement with
the companies. There was a real buzz in the Moore building throughout the
evening.
This was the first
time since Covid that we have been able to run this event in person, and it is
always a popular format. Small groups of students moved around the room every 6
minutes talking to different companies about the range of placements available
and seeing if there was a suitable match. When the bell rang the students
moved on! It was good to see the 2nd year students' enthusiasm to
secure a placement and the companies gave positive feedback about the students’
engagement levels and the quality of the questions asked
Students heard
about a range of positions including Accountancy/ Finance, Business support,
Management trainee, Marketing, Recruitment, Sales.
It was particularly
pleasing to see Lily Burke who is currently undertaking an HR placement at
Enterprise Rent a Car, join Paul Hanrahan, the Talent Acquisition manager, to
talk about the openings at Enterprise. Matthew Lappin (tax placement at RSM) and Ahmad Pirzad (Finance placement at GE Power) both joined their managers to talk about their placement experiences, as did Rahul and Giulio who are currently working at Cherith Simmons. A
massive thank you also to Needa Khan (Awin), Kamelia Yanev (Rolls Royce), Julia
Janton (Pfizer) and Praveen Mendis (Amazon) for taking time out to inspire the
younger year YIBs.
The evening
concluded with pizza and more conversation. In previous years, a number of our
students went onto secure placements on the back of attending similar events.
We look forward to hearing how they get on this year!
If any other companies are interested in advertising placements to our
business students please contact MN-YIB@rhul.ac.uk. Students undertake paid
placements of between 9 – 12 months and are available to start work anytime
between June – September. There is more information about our programme on our
website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/business-and-management/your-future-career/placements/
