Managing Your Placement

Managing Your Placement provides business and management undergraduates with a comprehensive guide to making the most of the opportunities available to them on a work placement. The book will guide students through everything, from the questions to ask to admission tutors on university open days, to selecting the best placement and securing a job upon graduation. Managing Your Placement will provide business students with the tools to assess their own skills and critically evaluate their career options. A must read for anyone about to embark upon a business course in Higher Education, about to make a placement selection or looking for their first job after graduation. Also available is a companion website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a look by clicking below - http://www.palgrave.com/business/herbert/index.asp

ISBN 0333987284   Pages 264 ISBN13 9780333987285 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 403 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 27 Aug 2004   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress LC   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 371.2270941   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Why do a placement? : the importance of work-related learning		3
2		Learning through work : the changing nature of work and employment markets		21
3		Learning to learn and learning by doing		41
4		A framework for skills development		65
5		Job searching		97
6		Job hunting I : getting to interview		118
7		Job hunting II : interviews and other opportunities to shine		145
8		Managing your placement		173
9		Making the most of your potential		195
10		Further help and resources		212
App. 1		Example of skills audit		223
App. 2		Questions to ask admission tutors and programme leaders		225
App. 3		The benefits of employing placement students		227

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