Experience Through Placement
You may have heard the expression, "Getting a first
is hard, getting a first job is harder". That may be true if you haven't
got the right experience to back you up. At Bournemouth, you
can get the experience because it is an invaluable part of the
course, and a
boost in
helping you to get over that 'catch 22' situation.
Placements range in length from 10 to 15 months and give you a chance to
test the skills that you learn during the course. That means you can
make an immediate impact as 'one of the team'.
If you choose a 'sandwich degree', you will spend up to one
year away from the University earning a proper salary for your
professional experience.
There are currently eight 'sandwich degree' courses in the school:
BSc (Hons) Internet Communication
Systems
BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology
BSc (Hons) Computing
BSc (Hons) Design Engineering
BA (Hons) Interior Design
BA/BSc (Hons) Product Design
BA/BSc (Hons) Computer Aided Product
Design
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering Management
A number of companies directly recruit our students to serve
on placements. For some courses, the demand for students is greater
than the number of spaces
we are offered - a testimony in itself that our students are highly sought
after, even before they hit the job-hunting trail.
Many of the positions held by our students on placement come with managerial
responsibility as employers seek to gain the most out of each individual.
Your placement period is also supervised and monitored by experts from
the University who make periodic checks to ensure that both you and the employer
are experiencing the kind of mutual benefit they want to achieve.
Quite a few students leave their placement companies with an open-ended
offer of employment upon graduation. It doesn't always happen that
way, but it does happen often - particularly for students from Bournemouth.
