Video Transcript
Neel Shah (Undergraduate Student)
Personal Development / Placement Year
Neel Shah: Hi I'm Neel, currently a final year student on the marketing programme here at Bradford School of Management. About to graduate, well hopefully in a few weeks times, my final exam is coming shortly.
I've developed in numerous ways, picked up many employable skills along the way in my four years here. When I first started here, I was quite oblivious to the skills needed to be successful in the workplace, however, throughout the years I've picked up these skills and did a placement year and during my second and third year which also helped me develop.
I did my placement year at General Electric, based up in Leeds. This was in their marketing department and they gave me loads of training there which complemented the things I'd learnt here.
I'm a big fan of placement year it's help me to no end, not only in my academic year but to come back with best time management skills so when it comes to course works and things like that, you can handle your time better, you can manage your time better. But I'd strongly recommend it, not only in terms of your personal things but when you come to graduate it makes you a lot more employable because you've got a whole year's experience and training, and obviously employers then know that you can work in a workplace and you can settle in very quickly.
After I've graduated in a few weeks I'm in the fortunate position of being offered a contract on ASDA's graduate management scheme based up in Leeds as well.
If I hadn't gone into a graduate training scheme I definitely would have considered coming back to Bradford University especially to do one of them MA programmes which obviously would give you even more skills which employers are looking for and obviously develop you as a person as well.