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Are you a business or a graduate based in or around Bath?

 

 Key Factors for Effective Placements

Identify the type of job role which best suits your needs. For example, If you are interested in advertising check out the job profiles and descriptions for different jobs in the sector to identify which is most likely to suit you.

Identify the type of employer you are interested in. For example, within an advertising role, you may enjoy working in the advertising department of a voluntary organisation rather than a commercial advertising agency

These decisions are both crucial and will also help you to make a convincing and personalised request to suitable organisations asking for placement opportunities.

Placement case studies


Click on the two case studies below to see how BSU students have benefitted from work experience and placements:

 

Case Study 1 - Jamie Finney  (Ordnance Survey)  

Case Study 2 - Stephen Davies (Spinnaker Sales)

Research into graduate employability has consistently highlighted the importance of placements in preparing students, or in the case of mature students - re-directing them into their future careers.

A recent study called Higher Education: Higher Ambitions? Graduate Employability states:

"There is very strong evidence that practical work experience is key to early and appropriate employment for graduates"


Useful links and resources

Finding a placement or work-experience

Bath Spa Careers jobs site for placements, work experience, project work and graduate jobs.

Gradsouthwest - for students and graduates in, from, coming or returning to the south west!

Just V is Bath Spa’s volunteering function. We offer a range of ways of getting involved in volunteering. These include placements in local organisations, one-off opportunities through Students’ Union societies, on-going student projects both on- and off-campus and even virtual opportunities (volunteering from your computer). We also advise on international volunteering. Finally, we provide training (through the Bath Spa Plus programme) and certificates (Just V’s Certificate in Volunteering Achievement) that enhance your employability.

Check out our web-pages for further details or email Just V Coordinator at justv@bathspa.ac.uk   

Prospects have information and advice on work experience. They also have a searchable database of employers offering work experience placements.

USArts
USArts International Training and Internship Program for the performing and visual arts and business management fields.

European Framework for Work Experience - national standards, good practice guides, case studies, competency units for students to self evidence, downloadable guides.

Fledglings
Work placements for students and graduates

ShellStep (formerly STEP) is a UK-wide programme offering undergraduates (2nd, peunultimate or final year students) project-based work within small to medium businesses. Regional and national locations offered.

Studentsmart (formerly BlueUKLtd) is a work experience website and offers a searchable database of opportunities and also provides advice on CV's, covering letters and interview tips.

www.studentplacements.org.uk
work placements, internships and graduate careers

www.e4s.co.uk
Student jobs, internships and graduate jobs

LAF offer unpaid work experience in a range of sectors, based in London and regions.

AIESEC
AIESEC has been organising placements for students and recent graduates for over 60 years!  We can offer you voluntary and paid work placements in professional organisations, schools and charities for a period of 2-18 months across our network of over 100 countries!

Do-It!
Voluntary jobs and placements


Careers website - Occupational section - check out the information on professional bodies for occupational sectors, as many give advice on organising placements, some also produce lists of organisations who are able to offer placements.

Pick up these directories and booklets from Bath Spa Careers (LY101):

  • GET employer directory
  • Prospects employer directory
  • Prospects Work Experience
  • Prospects Finalist
  • RealWorld Work Experience
  • Target Jobs magazine



Support for disabled students

Employ Ability
not-for-profit organisation dedicated to assisting people with all disabilities into employment.

Shaw Trust - Ability at Work
Internships and advice for disabled students and graduates

Toolkits for Success - a website with advice to help students with disabilities manage 'off site learning', including placements.


Contact us

If you’re a BSU student or recent graduate and currently seeking a placement, or would like advice on making the most of placements in general, please come to a Careers drop-in (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 2pm - 4pm), email us or call us on 01225 875525 to book an appointment with an Adviser.


Bath Spa University Graduate Internship Scheme

Business? Get the graduate edge...

Bath Spa University has been successful in securing £80,000 of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to support local and regional businesses who offer qualifying graduate internships throughout 2010.  Up to 50 part-funded internships are available.

The University’s Graduate Internship Scheme is part of an ongoing commitment to building lasting partnerships between business and education, and to supporting company growth in the South West whilst retaining talented practitioners within the area. 

Key features of the scheme:

  • Receive £100 per week towards the graduate's salary
  • lump sum up to £1,300 paid at the start of the internship
  • Funding available for 8 to 13 weeks full-time internships
  • part-time internships will also be considered
  • Applications particularly welcomed from digital/creative sector
  • Preference given to small businesses (fewer than 50 employees)

Download full details of the Bath Spa University Graduate Internship Scheme 2010

To register a graduate internship:

If you’d like to register a graduate internship for consideration as part of the scheme, please follow this link http://www.bathspacareers.com/file-upload/gis_register.htm

For more information or to offer a graduate internship, please contact Rosy Williams at placements@bathspa.ac.uk or telephone 01225 875462


Please visit our Employer web pages for further details of how Bath Spa Careers can help and assist you with your recruitment needs.


Graduate? Get the business edge...


This your opportunity to gain a competitive edge through Bath Spa University’s Graduate Internship Scheme.

Please apply early – there are just 50 Graduate Internships available!


Bath Spa University has received funding to support up to 50 local graduate internships.  In fact, we have money in the bank right now, ready and waiting to contribute to your internship.


This funding enables us to provide £100 per week towards a graduate’s salary to qualifying local organisations offering full-time graduate internships lasting between 8 and 13 weeks – assuming they’re paying at least the national minimum wage – and there’s scope for part-time internships too, on a pro-rata basis.  


The scheme is being heavily promoted to local organisations who are already responding with opportunities, and some are telling us that they see the scheme as a great way to test the water before offering a permanent job.


Primarily aimed at 2008 and 2009 UK graduates of UK Higher Education Institutions (including those who did a post-graduate qualification), with the bulk of internships expected to be offered to those who are unemployed. Non UK nationals must have permission to work in the UK.  Internships will be advertised online and in Bath Spa Careers graduate mailings – if you don’t receive these already, please e-mail careers@bathspa.ac.uk to ensure we have your contact details.


Furthermore, if you know of an organisation that would offer you an internship if £100 per week was available towards your salary, then point them our way and we’ll take them through a simple approval process.  In essence, the money is available as a lump sum to the organisation as soon as an internship agreement has been signed and an invoice received.


If you’d like to receive further information about this scheme, or indeed any internships/placements in Bath, Bristol or elsewhere in the South West of England, then please send us the following details as soon as possible:

  • Name
  • Location (e.g. Bath, Bristol)
  • Contact email address and telephone number
  • Your degree and any specialist knowledge/skills
  • nature of the work you'd prefer to do
  • your availability
  • Any other information you feel would be relevant
  • A copy of your CV

Email this information to placements@bathspa.ac.uk or for an informal chat about BSU Graduate Internships, please call Rosy Williams on 01225 875462.