Business School Career Preparation (N1669A)

Level 4

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll focus on key elements of career preparation. You’ll explore the value of gaining practical experience and build the skills needed to secure opportunities. This includes placement years, summer internships, or other relevant roles.

In addition, you’ll gain access to a professional network of students, mentors, career advisors and industry experts. You’ll also benefit from the range of resources and support offered by our Careers and Entrepreneurship team.

Topics include:

• benefits of building experience
• job search
• CV and application success
• interview and assessment centre preparation
• how to build a professional presence
• experiential learning (real-world) opportunity
• getting ready and making the most of your experience.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Accounting and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Accounting and Finance BSc
• Banking and Digital Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Banking and Digital Finance BSc
• Business Analytics (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Business Analytics BSc
• Business and Management Studies (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Business and Management Studies BSc
• Economics (with a professional placement year) BA
• Economics (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics BA
• Economics BSc
• Economics and Data Science (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics and Data Science BSc
• Economics and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics and Finance BSc
• Economics and Management Studies (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics and Management Studies BSc
• Economics and Sustainable Development (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics and Sustainable Development BSc
• Finance and Business (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Finance and Business BSc
• Finance and Technology (FinTech) (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Finance and Technology (FinTech) BSc
• International Business (with a professional placement year) BSc
• International Business (with a study abroad year) BSc
• International Business BSc
• Marketing and Management (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Marketing and Management BSc
• Marketing and Management with Psychology (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Marketing and Management with Psychology BSc