A magical experience with the Walt Disney Company

My name is Annabelle, and I am a final-year student studying BSc Hons Management, Politics and International Relations. As part of my degree, I completed a 15-month placement in the Corporate Social Responsibility team at The Walt Disney Company’s head office for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. By my second year, I […]

Placement opportunities can come from the most unexpected places

Hi, I’m Tonina, a fourth-year Business Management student, completing my final year at LUMS after returning from a Marketing placement at Prestwich Pharmacy, a Manchester-based wellbeing centre. What is it like applying for placements? My placement application process started in early October and finished in late June. As you can imagine, trying to stay motivated […]

A life-changing placement year with Fitch Ratings

Greetings from London. Most of my placement year with Fitch Ratings has successfully passed, but still I don’t know what to expect each day. Even now, I am always learning something new about the company and finance, and I hope my experiences are insightful and helpful. Let’s start from the very beginning – the application […]

Searching for the right marketing strategies

Searching is one of the main ways that people navigate the internet, and if you’re a website owner you want to be front and centre for any related searches your customers might make. In their range of different forms, advertising and marketing are about gaining attention – you want to be where people are looking, where they interact, so search is definitely the first place you want […]

Placement Year – Keyleigh Packer – Blackpool Council

My placement journey with Blackpool Council has been a real rollercoaster ride, and at times that has been quite literal too! It’s been an amazing year, with many unexpected twists and turns along the way, which have made my role as their Student Communications Assistant; enlightening, energising, engaging and to put it simply – so […]

What I have learned from my placement so far – Laura Conchie

As I reach halfway I have suddenly realised how quickly my placement year is moving along. I’m looking forward to the next 3 months for the latter end of my placement. I’ve begun ongoing shadowing opportunities int he office within the areas of Global Logistics, Business Partners and Supply Chain. Everyone in the office is […]

Working life in London – Shannon McCaul

Hello, I’m Shannon McCaul a BA Advertising and Marketing placement student working for Communications International Group in London. This is my second blog on working life in London. This time I am going to talk about being away from university and the contrast between working and student life. In my last blog, I mentioned how […]

Placement Search – Lewis Nicholas

Trying to get an industrial placement is a challenging, yet highly rewarding journey that many students at LUMS will choose to go on during the course of their studies. The first step in this journey is, of course, doing your research and submitting some applications. Once you’ve successfully completed this stage – and congratulations if […]

Guest Blog: Anjani Sarin – Career Support at Lancaster University

All my friends and acquaintances who wish to study abroad, keep asking me about the job prospects in the UK. I tell them that getting in the job in the UK is as challenging, as it would be in any part of the world. The job markets in the world are becoming more challenging day-by-day […]

5 Reasons why I chose Lancaster University

My journey of making the decision to pursue Management from Lancaster University has been very unique. It was a bright sunny day early in February when I decided to attend the college fair organised by a counselling agency in Delhi. I chose it because, with a full-time job, I knew I would not be able to […]