Tuesday, 10 March 2020

Enterprise Car Club Challenge/ YIB Information evening - 1st years

On March 9th we welcomed the 1st year YIBs to an Information evening which included a Car Club Challenge Business game run by Enterprise Rent a Car and concluded with lots of pizza. The Business game was run by Zoe Croll from Enterprise

This interactive game provided students with a great opportunity to put their business and marketing skills into practice. Students had to decide in which city Enterprise should next open their Car Club brand and in doing so developed key skills in communication, teamwork, leadership and presenting. We heard some good analysis of why students had chosen particular cities to launch their programme and creative ideas for how to spend their Marketing budget. Well done to the team members who got up and presented their findings to the audience! This challenge gave a flavour of the sorts of exercises Year in Business students may encounter when facing Assessment Centres next year.





The students watched a video where previous Year in Business students talked about why they would recommend a placement year. You can watch it here: http://yibprofile.blogspot.com/2019/09/rhyb04reco.html

Former YIBs also gave their advice to 1st year YIBs about what they should be doing now to prepare for making their placement applications at the beginning of year 2. You can watch the video here: http://yibprofile.blogspot.com/2019/11/rhyib01-yr1-advice-v2.html

The key messages given by the students to 1st year YIBs were:
      Attend YIB events/ Employer and Career events - start networking (Linkedin )
      Get active in Societies/ Sports/ Volunteering- strengthens your CV 
      Get work experience : eg internship, insight week, workshadowing, summer job/ part time work, volunteering                                                                                       
      Start thinking about placement areas/ companies               
      Start work on your CV ( review with Careers before the start of the Autumn term)
      Work hard to get a good grade in your 1st year (60% average required to stay on the programme)

We have set up Psychometric test pc lab workshops w/c 16th March for student to practice (dates on timetable)
Previous YIB Alvaro says: "Psychometric tests were an essential for all my placement applications, in fact they are the key for getting through the recruitment process of most placements whether you do it online or once you are invited for an interview. I highly recommend to get your head around these as early as possible, how they work and what to expect from them as different companies will have different types of tests”


Students also heard from 2nd year YIB Emir Tolanay who has been successful in securing a placement with SAP in 2020/21. Emir talked about how the work experience on his CV and his persistence helped him to secure the position. He highlighted the need for resilience to keep going with applications as he faced many rejections particularly at the start when he did not tailor his applications to the specific role. He advised students to use the resources available, such as the support from Careers to help with CVs and offer practice interviews.

We are thrilled that Emir has secured this position with SAP and will follow in the footsteps of many Royal Holloway students who have been on placement at the company including current YIBs Michael and Adam along with Andrea who now has a permanent role with the company.

If students want to find out more about the types of roles our YIBs have undertaken on placement they can find many profiles – written and video - on the year in business blog
There are also more detailed descriptions of different job roles here: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles

All presentations from the YIB Information evening can be found on the Year in Business Moodle page.

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