You'll experience lots of benefits by offering an industry placement/work experience opportunity.
- Add extra resources to your day-to-day business operations
- Upskill your staff as they develop management skills whilst supervising a student
- Tap into new ideas from students who are currently training in the industry
- Inspire and support the next generation of workers in your industry
- Gain access to a potential future workforce
- Help to address current and future skill shortages in your industry
- Strengthen your recruitment pipeline and increase people-diversity
We offer a wide range of subjects, most of which require an element of work experience or an industry placement.
From Agriculture to Education and Childcare, explore our college and degree level subjects.
The majority of work experience is undertaken by students on Level 3 courses (including T Levels) and by foundation degree students, who require placements to complete their courses. However, students from other courses may also wish to develop their experience.
All of our students are supported in preparing themselves for employment through the delivery of employability skills embedded into the curriculum. These skills will help to ensure that they have a successful placement with you.
Our Work Experience Coordinators work closely with employers to make sure that opportunities are mutually beneficial. If you are interested, please email servicestobusiness@bishopburton.ac.uk and the team will discuss the possibilities with you.
You would need to be able to offer a safe and healthy workplace to support a quality placement. This includes suitable staff to supervise students and the development of a work plan that a student could be involved in.
We work hard to match our students with appropriate placements. Once you have a match, we will support you to complete the relevant documentation, ensure the student is work ready and will manage their expectations about the role, as well as behaviours required in the workplace.
We will review your safe working practices with you to ensure you are able to support a high-quality placement and will check in at key points to review the student’s progress and achievements.
Riseholme College’s new Mentoring Programme for our Agriculture degree students aims to use established experienced farmers in the region to help our students as they develop from being an undergraduate to a graduate in employment.
Our Employer Mentoring programme offers second and third year degree students the opportunity to meet with an experienced professional who has relevant industry experience relating to their course which will prepare them for their next steps.
What's in it for your business?
By sharing your deep knowledge of your sector and supporting our enthusiastic students you will have the reward of seeing them grow in to the industry and open their eyes to all the possibilities available to them.
Register your interest today or contact Sharon Kirby for further information:
T. 01522 304600
E. sharon.kirby@riseholme.ac.uk
Every year we are looking to inspire our students by having the opportunity to meet and network with potential employers. We see this as an essential part of our students’ career planning. If you feel able to support any future careers/employability events or offer site visits and guest lectures/talks or workshops to particular groups of students, and have not already got established contacts within our academic departments, please email careers@bishopburton.ac.uk.
