What are career-ready placements?
Career-ready placements – connecting learning with industry experience.
Good things happen when you move outside your comfort zone, away from the classroom, and beyond the textbooks. That’s why practical experience is embedded in all University of Newcastle degrees.
Also referred to as internships, work integrated learning, practicums, clinicals or work placements, career-ready placement activities are purposefully aligned with your curriculum as part of your course or program requirement and provides you with an opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge you gain from your university studies within a professional workplace.
Benefits of a career-ready placement
One of the greatest benefits of undertaking a career-ready placement is the impact it has on your employability. Career-ready placements provide you with opportunities to:
- Become job-ready
- Learn from sector-leading professionals
- Build professional contacts and networks
- Develop discipline-specific skills and knowledge through hands on exposure in the workplace
- Explore future career options
- Gain insights into the professional attitudes and attributes necessary for the jobs of the future
- Develop a competitive edge in the global employment marketplace
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Student Experiences
Here are what some of our students have to say about their career-ready placement experiences.
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