Roehampton connects businesses with our values-led and work-ready students and graduates, equipped with the knowledge, critical insight and behaviours to help businesses to solve problems, work on strategic projects and move your organisation forward.
We work with you to find tailored solutions to your recruitment needs and are keen to develop relationships with organisations who can offer work experience, graduate roles, industry insights, and mentorship for our students.
Please contact our team to get more detailed information on requirements, processes, and to discuss the best way to support your business:
Email: employerconnect@roehampton.ac.uk
At the heart of our business ready approach sits a range of work-focused learning activities which provide our students with practical business experience to complement their university studies that in turn make a valuable contribution to your organisation and help you grow your business:
Work placements and internships are periods of temporary work, where projects provide value to businesses and students have the opportunity to gain experience working within an organisation. This is a great way to nurture future talent and resource a project or gap in resources.
Students from any discipline are able to complete work placements as part of their course or extra-curricular internships.
Talk to our Placements Office about working with students across all departments on placements and internships including our match-funded Roehampton Internship Scheme, where SMEs can access up to a maximum of £1500 funding per Roehampton intern. The scheme is kindly supported by Santander Universities.
Please email employerconnect@roehampton.ac.uk to find out more.
Is your organisation facing a particular commercial challenge? Roehampton Business School undergraduates and postgraduates are available to help you address a strategic business issue. Our students will inject new ideas into your chosen business need that might not otherwise have been reviewed or developed, giving you additional resources at no extra cost with tangible outcomes, as agreed to suit the business and students’ academic outcomes.
Undergraduates (working in teams) and Postgraduates (working individually) will be supervised by Business School academic staff. Students on any of the following courses can take part in the Business Consultancy Project:
Undergraduate programmes: Accounting, Business Management, Business Management and Economics, Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Business Management and Finance, Business Management and Marketing, Human Resource Management and International Business.
Postgraduate programmes: Digital Marketing, Global Business Management, Global Financial Management, Global Human Resources Management, Global Marketing, Master of Business Administration (MBA), and MBA with Placement Year.
Organisations would need to identify a project supervisor who can provide the initial consultancy brief to the student(s), act as the main point of contact for the duration of the project and facilitate access to other people within the organisation to gather key information where required.
We are very happy to discuss your ideas for projects. The following example topics are intended to give you a flavour of the type of projects that may be suitable for our students.
- Feasibility studies or creation of a development plan for a new project or idea
- Developing innovative new income streams
- A review of Corporate Social Responsibility policy
- An employee retention plan
For more information, please email employerconnect@roehampton.ac.uk and one of the team will be pleased to help you.
Handshake, an innovative online platform and mobile app is designed to streamline your recruiting process and connect you with top talent from our university community. This is the best place to connect with our students and graduates, promote your graduate vacancies, part time jobs and gain access to our on-campus and virtual careers events. All our students and alumni are directed to this platform when searching for opportunities.
To get started with Handshake and access these valuable resources, simply click on the following link: https://app.joinhandshake.co.uk/employer_registrations/new .
For information on statutory minimum wage requirements and employee legislature, please see the GOV.UK website.
Please note:
- We are unable to provide support in sourcing students for applications.
- We are not able to accept overseas or international opportunities at this time and will not be able to publish these to students.
- We reserve the right to refuse to publish any vacancies we do not deem suitable for our students without providing a reason. Please consider that we have the best interests and safety of our students in mind at all times.
We hold a variety of events each year that allow your business to promote your brand through industry insight presentations and skills workshops (that can be embedded in teaching or as a standalone event), employer spotlights, and career fairs.
Benefits
Offering opportunities to Roehampton students has numerous benefits for your business, both in the short and long term:
- Skilled and prepared students. Students will have a sound knowledge of their field of study and will be trained in key workplace skills before they start so that they can bring new skills and theory into your organisation and quickly add value.
- Fill a skills gap on a project. Students can introduce fresh perspectives and approaches to your team or organisation, devote time to new projects, and cost-effectively test ideas.
- Employee development. Your current employees can benefit from having a student in the team: they can learn about current research/theories in their field, be inspired by new ideas and enthusiasm and develop their own people management skills through delegation and mentoring.
- Graduate recruitment. Often students on placement, or who have engaged with employers on a consultancy project, prove to be a great fit for the company and this can save on future recruitment costs.
- Access to our leading research staff. Working with our students means you will also be able to benefit from engaging with our team of global expert staff.
- Enhance your brand. As an organisation seen to be employing placement students or offering consultancy projects, you can increase your reputation as an employer of choice, and as a company that is willing to invest in future leaders.
Code of Practice
The University of Roehampton Careers and Placements teams abide by the Code of Practice and quality standards agreed between the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), the National Student Employment Services (NASES), the National Union of Students (NUS) and the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD).