OFFICE OF THE STUDENT AFFAIRS

(Work Placement)

Organize work placements and support students in the work placement process.

Duties and Responsibilities 1. To represent the EARIST to prospective employers and seeking appropriate new placement opportunities both locally and internationally to include liaising with employers regarding visits to campus for recruitment events ensuring that employer needs are met and that staff are aware of the event. 2. To monitor the suitability of existing placement opportunities; ensuring that employers are aware of their responsibilities to the student and of the students and the Universitys responsibilities to them; maintaining long-term relationships with the employers concerned; 3. To promote placement opportunities and benefits to students in a range of media including not limited to flyers, presentations, documents, and video and on line activity; 4. To advise the students on their applications and requirements in undertaking a placement and to provide a point a point of contact while the students are on placement and to provide feedback from employers following a placement. 5. To advise and guide students (in groups or as individuals, online and in person) about the application process including CVs, application forms, assessments centres, interviews and selection tests. 6. To visit the workplace to ensure adequate supervision of placements, communicating details of placements to the to the University bodies which require the information; and to administer all other aspects of the activity 7. To prepare work placement correspondence and attend telephone inquiries internally and externally.