If you are looking to recruit a student or graduate…
With many organisations looking to recruit new starters with existing ‘work experience’, offering a placement to a student could greatly enhance their employment prospects. Work placements offer students insight into working life and specific roles / organisations / industries and can play a major role in shaping a student’s future career direction.
Students can offer organisations a fresh perspective and new ideas, including how to make use of social media and technology and how to reach a younger demographic. Offering a student placement can also enable organisations to meet potential future job candidates and assess how well potential candidates work within their team. Students can offer specialist skills at minimal cost to the organisation, (however we would encourage organisations to pay students fairly for their work, to reduce barriers to access. One of the major questions relating to student placement is access to opportunity for unpaid placements. For further information, see Unpaid, Unadvertised, Unfair. )
See:
Not just making tea: a guide to work experience – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Graduate Programme – Find your future (venturewales.org)
Each of our partner universities has a careers team who are on-hand to provide support to prospective placement providers and links to each team can be found in the table below:
| University |
| Aberystwyth |
| Bangor |
| Cardiff Metropolitan |
| Cardiff |
| Swansea |
| University of South Wales |
| University Wales Trinity St David |
| Wrexham |
We are seeking to increase the availability of environmentally focused placements.
Cardiff University Career Mentoring
The Cardiff University Career Mentoring programme is an opportunity to mentor a student interested in finding out more about careers and job roles in your sector or industry. This gives our students the chance to gain valuable information, advice and insights; to build their network and develop confidence in their career choices with the support of professionals already working in their chosen sector. Mentoring sessions will take place between December 2024 and April 2025 with mentoring pairs expected to undertake minimum of 5 mentoring sessions with flexible session frequency and durations.
Applications for the 2024 / 2025 programme are now open:
- Mentor Application Form – Cardiff University Career Mentoring Programme – 2024 – 2025
- Ffurflen Gais i Fentoriaid – Mentora Gyrfa Prifysgol Caerdydd 2024 – 2025
Please note that the deadline to apply is Sunday 20th October 2024.
Interested parties can find out more about this year’s programme here – Cardiff University Career Mentoring and I have also attached bilingual flyers. If you have any questions about the scheme or how to apply, please do reach out to Linda Smith who manages the scheme at workexperience@cardiff.ac.uk