Why offer a placement?
If you’re looking for practical ways to do business differently and bring about real change, we can work with you to share ideas, knowledge and best practice with our outstanding students that bring invaluable contributions.
Employers around the world choose to take on our placement students for the following qualities:
- a strong academic background
- new ideas and an ability to look at problems with fresh eyes
- inspiration to other staff
- keen problem-solving and analytical skills
- presentation and up-to-date IT skills
- flexibility towards change
- a readiness to tackle one-off projects or management problems
- team-working skills
- support and guidance for the student and employer by an experienced professional placement team.
You can be sure that recruiting one of our students not only provides them with an invaluable experience and helps them to develop specific work-related skills, but will provide your company with an individual who has the skills and determination to learn, help and succeed.
Combined with our commercially relevant teaching, our students go on to become highly skilled and sought-after individuals with the ability to succeed in any workplace.
Some examples of what companies have said about our placement students:
Your student has made a significant contribution to the business and become an invaluable colleague, so much so that we have sought to keep them on during his final year, creating a role and contract type especially to retain their skills and knowledge. Thank you!
They were an asset to the team. They got involved in all of the opportunities available to them including the quality pillar, sports teams and general wellbeing. We were very impressed with the speed that they picked up professional skills and the way that they communicated with clients. We look forward to welcoming them back to PwC after their final year of university.
They have proven to be resilient in their ability to work independently and proactively anticipating the needs of the segment and problem solving accordingly. They are great - the best intern we've worked with (and we've worked with some great ones). We've been so grateful for their support to date and hope to see them recognised accordingly. We cannot overstate the value they have brought in his role; we suspect no intern has done more to generate revenue, profit and staffing improvements for our business on their projects.