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Student placements

Placement students can bring many advantages to your business, whatever its size. Students are work-ready with well-developed skills, and can add real value to your projects.

Taking placement students can also be an efficient recruitment solution as you may end up offering them a permanent graduate job. This can considerably reduce your recruitment costs and efforts.

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How do placements work?

Undergraduate or postgraduate students work with you on a fixed-term contract for up to a year in an area of your business that is relevant to their course.

In return for their work, we ask that you offer them development opportunities and the chance to take on some responsibility.

During their placements, students may need to complete academic work for their degree. This could be a piece of valuable research for your organisation. Students are also supported by us throughout their placement.

A placement student can give you

  • a high-calibre employee who is motivated to perform well
  • fresh, innovative ideas
  • a flexible way to resource a short-term project
  • cost-effective graduate recruitment.
They’re fresh, bright and motivated. They bring the whole team up with their enthusiasm.

Anton Cowell, Eschmann Equipment

Subject expertise

You can hire placements students across a wide range of subjects: 

  • Arts
  • Business, finance and marketing
  • Design and architecture
  • Fashion
  • Health
  • Media
  • Pharmacy
  • Retail
  • STEM - (includes Engineering, Computing, Maths, Environment, Built Environment, Sciences and Product Design)
  • Sport and Health Sciences
  • Teaching.

Case studies

Opportunities for Brighton students to study and work abroad with the new Turing Scheme

Opportunities for Brighton students to study and work abroad with the new Turing Scheme

University of Brighton students will be supported to study and work abroad following the university’s successful bid for funding from the government’s new Turing Scheme.

How your business could benefit from a University of Brighton placement student

How your business could benefit from a University of Brighton placement student

As we start to find our way out of the pandemic, now is the time to think about new talent to help future proof your recruitment.

Meet some of our employers and students on placement

Meet some of our employers and students on placement

Dynamic and practical, our students are excited to put their skills to use in the real world, and are doing so in many different ways.

How the Pensions Regulator adapted to offer remote placements

How the Pensions Regulator adapted to offer remote placements

The Pensions Regulator regularly offers placements to university students, where they experience working within the Frontline Regulation Directorate at its headquarters in Brighton.

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