The Placements Pod

Lucie Stanworth and Charlie King are careers consultants at the University of York. In this podcast we discuss top tips for interviews and assessment centres.

https://www.york.ac.uk/students/work-volunteering-careers/apply-interview/interviews/

https://www.york.ac.uk/students/work-volunteering-careers/apply-interview/assessment-centres/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6tv_jerAk (listen or wait to talk)

It was great to talk to Becca about her study abroad experience in Japan!

Kyoto

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2158.html

Study Abroad Links

https://www.york.ac.uk/study/study-abroad/

https://www.york.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/

https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/kyotouniversity/home

CPI website: https://www.uk-cpi.com/

Infinite Monkey Cage pod featuring Jane Hill https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-infinite-monkey-cage/id343580439

CAR example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6dgF5hE764

Shortlist me 

https://go.shortlister.com/marketplace/uniofyork

It was great to speak to Amelia, a returning student who did a year in industry at Reckitt!

https://www.reckitt.com/

Huge thanks to Lilly and Clara for sharing their study abroad experiences!

Study abroad applications open on 5 November and close on 28 November. Come along to the Global Opportunities Fair on 5 November if you can!

Some useful information below

https://www.york.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/calendar/

https://www.york.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/opportunities-by-subject/biology/

https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/universityofvalencia/home

https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/macquarieuniversity/home

It was great to talk to David about his experience applying for placements and securing a year in industry with pharma giant MSD.

You can apply for 2027/28 years in industry at Mayo from September! (Florida and Arizona.)

It was great to chat to returning student Killian for this episode about his AZ experience - hopefully there are some top tips for you!

AZ placements are open: https://careers.astrazeneca.com/job/cambridge/12-month-university-industrial-placement-student-uips-r-and-d-biopharmaceutical-and-oncology/7684/85643238784

Killian mentioned this podcast: https://www.thermofisher.com/uk/en/home/brands/invitrogen/molecular-biology-technologies/speaking-of-mol-bio-podcast.html

Send any pod questions to [email protected]!

In this episode I interview Ansh Kumar, Padmapriya Ramamoorthy and Angel Liang about their experiences with the E&G Dissertation with Placement module (https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENV00102M/2024-25)