Student Internships, Internship Opportunities and Student Placement

Expand your Business - not your Payroll

Placement UK supplies top quality staff for less than half the cost of employing people through traditional means. They are available for permanent jobs, temporary jobs, and one-off project work.

Ethics is at the heart of what we do. It would be easy to take advantage of vulnerable young professionals looking for essential work experience. In fact many placement agencies do! They charge the students (who can least afford it), and often provide poor quality, unpaid placements. Not us! Placement UK offers its services free to all students, and only features decently paid placements. So you can be sure that when dealing with us and our students that your ethics are never going to be called into question.

Here's what you get:

From £495 to £695 per month for a full time, graduate calibre worker.

Placement UK brings you a unique, flexible and quite unbeatable solution to your staffing requirements. We supply high quality European undergraduates and Masters students to fill a great variety of roles and, most importantly, at exceptionally low costs.

The employer is exempt from many of the costs and complications of current employment legislation because these candidates are classed as being in training, rather than employment. A training allowance of around £495 to £695 per month is usually sufficient to attract the right quantity and quality of applicants. (This equates to an annual salary of just £6000 to £8400).

So, employers benefit from graduate-quality staff, whilst undergraduates gain work experience which is essential to complete their qualifications. Its a win - win.

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Quality is Assured: all candidates are vetted to ensure suitability, and that they have the right motivation and personality to suit your specific requirements. See details of our no-quibble Guarantee, below.

Calibre, Convenience & Cost-Effective

UK employers can enjoy substantial cost savings when compared with employing staff by conventional means. This is because when undergraduates and master students across the EU are required to work in business as an essential element of their courses, they are classed as trainees, not employees. This simple fact means that many UK employment rules do not apply, allowing you a greater degree of flexibility. For example, the allowances paid to placement undergraduates are typically around £500 to £700 per month: this is about one third or one half of a full-time UK salary for a comparable employee.

With their enthusiasm and commitment, they can fulfil a variety of significant roles from General Assistants through to Junior Managerial positions. In addition, the students' language skills can often help UK companies to develop European export markets. All they ask in return is that they receive a modest but reasonable monthly training allowance to help them with the cost of accommodation and subsistence. The students' main motivation is to gain experience and fulfil course requirements, not make money.

Candidates are usually aged between 20 and 26 and are typically studying for a Degree or Masters in Business, IT, Engineering, Languages, and many other courses at top Universities, Colleges and private Business Schools throughout Europe. All our students speak good English, and most students already have valuable work experience and professional skills.

A typical placement lasts 6 months. This is ideal for project work.

Permanent positions are readily catered for too, with our simple Rolling Programme: as an undergraduate nears the end of a placement, a successor is appointed. The outgoing student then trains his replacement for maximum continuity and performance, with minimal disruption or management input. The overlap period can be of any duration you deem appropriate.

We have many thousands of undergraduates using our service to find placements every year. Our service is free to them, ensuring a large supply of high calibre students. This enables us to select the perfect candidates for your requirements. (Other placement agencies charge the students a fee: this can severely restrict applicants to those that are wealthy and/or desperate! - in either case not necessarily the best candidates for you) With Placement UK, you can rest assured that we have access to the largest pool of undergraduate talent in the whole of Europe. We advertise your position on our own website (nowehere else), and invite applications from our own huge audience. We don't trawl through online jobsite databases. And we go through a rigorous and exacting recruitment process that is second to none in order to present the very best candidates - a service no less than you would expect from a high quality recruitment consultant.

Of course a service such as this cannot be free. Placement UK charges the placement provider a reasonable fee. Please call or email for details of pricing and guarantees.

Temporary or Permanent

Using our simple 'Rolling Programme' we can supply students to fill roles for as long as you require. Placement students have traditionally been used for temporary work or projects because a placement is typically around 6 months in duration. However, we have devised and developed a simple system that means they can be used for permanent positions. We recruit a second student to take over from the first - with an overlap. This overlap allows for the 1st student to train the 2nd, and so on, providing continuity for as long as the employer requires. It represents a very flexible employment resource.

Using this method, one of our clients has been using placement students continuously as their Office & Admin Manager... since 1997!

So, for example, you could have a permanent graduate calibre office manager - for as little as £495 to £695 per month.

Our Guarantee

Placement UK offers you a simple no-quibble guarantee of satisfaction: if you are not happy with any staff recruited by us, we will replace or refund. Full details available on request.

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