Information for employers
Could your business benefit from the latest industry knowledge and ideas? Would you like your staff to develop supervisory and mentoring skills?
Hiring one of our students on a work placement allows you to benefit from the knowledge they gain at university and can help you develop the skills of your existing staff. Our students bring new ideas, energy and enthusiasm backed by the latest skills and knowledge from their course. They're keen to put their learning into practice and prove themselves ready for work.
You’ll help them develop their employment prospects and introduce them to a potential career. You might find a future employee, reducing your recruitment costs while demonstrating your company’s commitment to nurturing talent.
The students we've taken on have all had real drive to impress and exceed expectations. They're fast learners and have a thirst to push themselves. We've found them to all be real assets to the business.
Benefits of employing a placement student
Whether you’re a public, private or third sector organisation, a large multinational company or a small or medium enterprise, our ambitious placement students can bring your organisation many benefits.
Benefits include:
- Helping to drive forward a project that your team might not have the resources to work on
- The opportunity of an extended trial period and potentially lower recruitment costs after they graduate
- Enabling your staff to use and develop managerial or mentoring skills
- Providing a cost-effective method of overcoming temporary staff shortages, particularly during busy periods
- Providing access to specialists at the University with extensive industrial or organisational experience
- Sharing the latest research and industry trends through closer links with our Research and Innovation Services
- Injecting new, innovative ideas in an area where you’ve identified a skills gap
Placement length
A student work placement should typically be a full-time role for around 9-12 months
Generally, students are available to do their placement from the beginning of June until the end of September the following year.
Cost of hiring a placement student
Placement students receive salaries at or above the minimum wage. The current average annual salary is £21,000
Job roles for placement students
When you partner with us, you can recruit placement students from across the University. We'll advertise your placement opportunities to students from varying subjects. And help you find the right student who's studying a related topic with suitable skills and knowledge.
Previous job roles
- Marketing intern
- Project Coordinator
- Sales & Fixed costs controlling
- Trade Events and Marketing
- Loan Monitoring Officer
- Accounting Intern in Private Equity
- Insight analyst
- Industrial Placement - Global Logistics
- Business Development Intern
- Continuous Improvements Analyst
- 3D modeller and designer
- Film editor
- Interior design intern
- Marketing executive
- Photographer
- Production intern
- Broadcast Technology & Operations Intern
- UX Researcher
- Game Developer
- Fashion Design Intern
- Charity fundraising assistant
- Data analyst
- Education assistant
- English language assistant
- Fraud analyst internship
- HR assistant
- Marketing, PR and social media assistant
- Research assistant
- Restorative justice administrator
- Translation assistant
- Victim support caseworker
- Youth worker
- Academy coach
- Camp leader
- Physical education teaching assistant
- Sports development officer
- Trainee physiotherapist
- SEN teaching assistant
- Learning support assistant
- Youth Worker
- Honorary assistant psychologist
- Research Assistant
- Junior developer
- ICT support technician
- Business analyst
- Flight physics intern
- Counter-terrorism and security analyst
- Project manager
- Junior aerospace engineer
- Construction management trainee
- Trainee building surveyor
- Trainee civil engineer
- Assistant quantity surveyor
- Building controls intern
We’re on our fourth placement student so far, and they've all been absolutely brilliant. It's critical that they are here and if they weren't, we would have to employ someone in that role - that's why we come back to you year on year on year.
Recruit a placement student
Our placement team provides support and advice throughout the recruitment process to make it simple and efficient to recruit a placement student.
The placement team could help with the following services:
- Provide examples of previous placement opportunities to help you draft your vacancy advert
- Advertising your vacancies
- Arranging student presentations
- Put you in contact with our events team at the University so you can promote your business directly to students
- Collecting applications from students
- Arranging interviews
- Supporting with the recruitment process
Our placement teams will promote your vacancy to our students, but you determine the selection criteria and interview format.
Alternatively, you can use our for free. Just register your organisation and upload your jobs. If a student sees your advert, they'll apply directly to you.
Other ways to work with our students
Recruit our graduates
Our graduates have the skills, knowledge and confidence to succeed in industry, and we can help you recruit them.
Advertise part-time or seasonal jobs
Many of our students work part-time alongside their degrees, where they can put their learning into practice.
