Recruit a placement student

We encourage all our students to participate in career-relevant work experience to enhance subject understanding, develop skills and improve their career prospects.

We can help you identify and meet your placement needs so both you, as an employer, and recruited student(s) benefit from the experience.

Types of Work Experience

  1. 12 month Industrial placement - a paid, full-time year in industry (minimum 10 months) as an accredited part of a four year degree.

  2. Summer Internship - a paid, full-time placement during the summer break.

  3. Work based project (or live brief) - an assignment whereby the student produces a project/solution of benefit to a collaborating industrial partner.

  4. Work experience - an unpaid, short-term arrangement with clear learning outcome.

What can we do for you?

Careers and The Workplace team will provide advice, guidance, and support at all stages of the placement process.

  1. help you identify placement needs
  2. promote and advertise through the online platform link to register is below

Just a few things to remember for a 12-month Sandwich placement:

  1. We have two cohort start dates for placement either September or January start.
  2. Employers can start the recruitment process throughout the year

Benefits of employing a Placement Year student?

Bring fresh ideas to your organisation or you may have a project which requires extra capacity

Students develop a range of specialist skills during their degree, which may fill a skills gap in your organisation

Future talent identification - recruiting a placement student allows you to identify candidates early and see if they are a good “fit” for your organisation 

How to get involved?

Contact the Careers and The Workplace team, and they will help guide you through the process. It's simple, straight-forward and cost effective.

To advertise your vacancy, you will need to create and account on Careerspace. Once your account has been verified you will then be able to upload your opportunities, alternatively you can email careers@wlv.ac.uk or call: 01902 323400 and speak to a member of the Careers and The Workplace team