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Name: Emily Barman

Age: 20

University: Aston University

Course: Marketing

Company: Intel

Job Title: Marketing; Communication & Events

Hi. I’m Emily and I started a Marketing placement at Intel about a month ago. I go to Aston University and am studying Marketing where a placement year is compulsory for everyone in the Business School. This means that although the university has a lot of contacts, there is also a lot of competition between students to try and secure a great job at a great company.

I’ll start from the beginning. I applied for the Intel placement online through their website by uploading a CV. Unlike many other application processes, there were no lengthy competency based questions so I had to rely purely on my qualifications and experiences.

A few weeks later I heard I had been selected for an Assessment Day which I attended with 5 other students. The assessment day was actually quite fun, and not at all scary like I had imagined. The most valuable part of the day was that current interns helped organise and run it, meaning I gained a clear and realistic insight into what it was like to work at Intel. Within the first hour I was even more convinced that Intel was where I had to work for my placement year! A few weeks later I got a call offering me the job and I was elated.

Intel recruits very early in the academic year so I had secured a placement before Christmas while some people hadn’t even start applying. They ran an open day for the new interns to meet each other and their team which I found really helpful. It was a great opportunity to get a clearer picture of I would be doing on a day to day basis and meet potential housemates and friends. This day was definitely worth attending as I met all the new interns and we all took part in loads of team building activities.

Next steps were; find some housemates, find a house, move in and then start work!