12 Month Work Placements
Employers greatly value candidates who can demonstrate that they have gained relevant experience and have learned from this. Work experience during your degree can help you to demonstrate that you have already achieved a certain level of competence and this means you will be far more likely to get the graduate job you want.
Benefits of Undertaking a Work Placement
The benefits that work experience can bring to candidates in the highly competitive graduate market place include:
- Valuable employability skills
- Commercial acumen and occupational awareness
- Practical evidence of achievement
- Networking opportunities
- The opportunity to apply academic learning in the workplace
At undergraduate level some of our programmes have compulsory placements built in – most notably our “Flying Start” BA Business Accounting and Finance degree delivered in partnership with PwC.
However, all of our undergraduate students can opt to take a year in industry after their second year. This year, around 70 students studying Business Management, Marketing, Marketing and Management, Business Management and Economics are undertaking a 12 month placement with companies such as:
- L’Oreal
- IBM
- Disney
- Procter & Gamble
- Fujitsu, Nissan
- HSBC
- Xerox
