Information for employers

The placements scheme offers solutions to any organisation looking for a cost-effective method to attract high-calibre skilled staff to bring in new ideas or gain a head start in graduate recruitment.

Every year more employers discover the benefits of participating in our placements scheme and look to us to help meet recruitment needs.

Practicalities
Benefits of employing a placement student
Companies involved in the work placement scheme

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Practicalities

Students at Brighton Business School have the option to do a work placement for the third year of their course. The placements are usually 12 months long in a paid position of trainee professional or trainee/junior manager.

We advertise your placement opportunities to our students, although they are responsible for applying for the jobs themselves. You can also take part in our work placement fair, giving your recruitment team the opportunity to speak to students directly. Each year we advertise approximately 1,000 placement opportunities.

Our dedicated placement team ensures high quality service is provided to both placement providers and students.

Benefits of eploying a placement student

The benefits of employing a placement student:

Lower risk and lower cost recruitment

Placements provide a low risk method of recruiting the right employee by offering employers an opportunity to assess potential staff. Students provide excellent value for money and there are no recruitment costs from having to advertise positions.

Gain additional resources

Placements are an alternative way of meeting staffing needs.

Innovative ideas

Employers can benefit from the fresh and innovative ideas that placement students bring. Placements can be a good way to develop a relationship with the university and may enable the employer to benefit from research expertise and have input into course development.

Contact the Brighton Business School placements team for more information

Companies involved in the palcement scheme

Below is a list of just some of the companies who take part in our work placement scheme.

American Express
Arabian Tent Company
Balfour Beatty
Barclays Corporate
Bigfoot Travel
BMW (GB) Ltd
Computacenter
Coty UK Ltd
David Lloyd Leisure
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
Ernst & Young
Ford Motors Co. Ltd
GE Money
Golfbreaks Ltd
Harrods Ltd
Hewlett Packard Ltd
Hitachi
Hyundai
IBM
Lastminute.com
Legal & General
Lloyds Banking Group
National Air Traffic Services
Net Natives
NHS Salford PCT
Nike EMEA HQ
Porsche Cars Great Britain
Quantum Marketing
Roche Diagnostics Ltd
SAP (UK) Ltd
Tactical Solutions
The Body Shop
The Studio Theatre
The Walt Disney Company
The Wealth Works
Total Gas and Power Ltd
UK Border Agency
Unilever UK Limited
Youthforce

Employers at our annual work placement fair

What employers say

"He has been an excellent member of the team literally from his first day - hard working, intelligent, thorough, very good attention to detail, good communication skills, excellent with our and micro-soft office computer software and importantly a good sense of humour/ good to work with."

"She has shown an innate sense of responsibility and a pride in her work that means however large or small the task, it is always done to the very best of her ability. Her positive 'can do' attitude has been a real asset to the department."

"Personally I feel that he is a great asset to the team and his professionalism and work maturity is way above what I would expect for a student. I can say hand on heart that come August we'll miss him."

"He has just had his appraisal. I'm pleased to tell you that it was excellent and he gained high scores and positive comments, particularly for his analytical ability, his fast grasp of concepts, interest and communication skills."

"She is doing brilliantly. She has picked up a number of weekly communications tasks and is running with them independently. She is also project managing the update of our internal internet sites - which is a huge task and this is running to schedule.

"In summary, he is doing extremely well and we are very happy. His taste in football teams leaves a lot to be desired, but we can't all be perfect."

" She has impressed (us) with her professional attitude and proven she is more than capable of handling any project she has been given. She has done some excellent work with us, both on her own and as part of a team."