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Work placements
Gain real-world experience through a paid placement year with leading organisations or dynamic SMEs. Taken between the penultimate and final year, the placement counts towards your degree and helps you graduate with the skills and experience employers value. Some of the companies Essex Business School students have done work placements with include BMW Financial Services, Samsung, Greater Anglia, NHS, TransPerfect, Department of Health and IBM. I had to be versatile when the rail industry was daunted with rail strikes. A highlight was being trained to be a train dispatcher alongside my day-to-day job in marketing. During strike days I worked as a frontline colleague dispatching trains from London Liverpool Street station. You can gain amazing experience, references or even future career opportunities from the company, I am testament to this as I secured a full-time role at Greater Anglia as a Brand Manager upon graduation.
Karolina Szpiegel Throughout my placement with Greater Anglia I learned a great deal of skills specific to marketing: how to use the CMS (the content management system) for the Greater Anglia website; social media marketing for Facebook and Instagram; I worked with a variety of partners on promotional activity; traditional marketing at train stations through posters and customer information screens; various elements of branding and working with brand guidelines and working with agencies.
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