Sponsorship opportunities

→ Employer of the Week

Raise your profile, build brand awareness and promote your organisation to Sheffield students by becoming 'Employer of the Week'. You will be able to send a tailored message via our student newsletter, as well as our Instagram @unishefcareers

Find out more about how the Employer of the Week package helped Gripple to raise their profile and attract talent from Sheffield.

→ Employers @ UoS campaign

Our Employers @ UoS campaign promotes employers who are recruiting Sheffield students. The campaign, consisting of a range of printed and digital materials, student newsletters and Instagram stories, runs during term-time and is a great way to showcase your organisation throughout the year.

As part of the campaign, your company logo can be include in:

• Printed materials at Employability & Placement Hub locations across campus
• Digital materials in our Hubs and on digital screens on campus near the SU area, which attract over 15,000 students every week in term time
• Student newsletter campaign banners, sent out bi-weekly during term time (average audience of 22,000 students, approx 6 editions per semester)
• Weekly Instagram stories on our 'Vacancies closing soon' series (average 300 unique views, approx 12 editions per semester)

→ Student calendar sponsor

SOLD OUT FOR 2025/26

Our limited edition student calendar is given out to over 1500 students on campus during the first weeks of the semester. The sponsorship includes your logo appearing on the calendar, which is a great opportunity to increase brand visibility and recognition of your organisation amongst our students. The calendars are very popular and used by students on a daily basis to plan for the semester ahead.

If you would like your brand or opportunities to reach a specific group of students, we are open to creating a bespoke calendar for a targeted cohort in collaboration with you. Please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

→ Student Guide sponsor

A great way to reach our finalists and graduates. The Student to Professional Guide is a compendium of careers-related advice and information for final year students as they transition into the workplace. It's shared with final year students via email and social media, and promoted to graduates thoughout the summer.

Options include a full page sponsored article and/or employer logo on the cover.

→ Event sponsor

Get ahead of your competitors, raise the profile of your organisation and raise brand recognition amongst students before, during, and even after our careers fairs have taken place by becoming a careers fair sponsor. The sponsorship includes a prime-positioned stand, and enhanced promotion in our student newsletters, on social media, and around campus.

The careers fair was an excellent way to interact and discuss with students about their early careers. The whole process ran smoothly and we were supported well throughout.

Invenics

We also run other types of events across the year, including Award Ceremonies. For example, our Inspiring Student Worker Awards, held in May each year, celebrate our students who work part-time during their studies, have done a short-term internship, or a summer placement during vacation.

Our Placement Year Awards, held in November, bring together students, placement providers, and University employability staff to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our exceptional placement returners and their employers.

Sponsorship options include headline event sponsor or individual award sponsor, to get your brand in front of both students and other employers, whilst supporting a great evening of celebration.

Our Mock Assessment Centres help students across all disciplines prepare for employer selection processes. They provide a great platform for raising awareness of your brand and any opportunities you have available. Your logo will be added to all the task materials on the day, as well as included in all our student communications about the event.

→ Refreshments sponsor

Some of our events include refreshments for the attendees, and we are always open to having employers sponsor them. This is a great way to get your organisation's name in front of students. If you are attending one of our events and would like to sponsor refreshments, get in touch!

→ Personalised sponsorship packages

We can also create a bespoke package, based on your recruitment needs.

Our personalised package has been a game changer. Much easier for budgeting, proactively planning resource, and offers consistency in brand awareness throughout campus and digital channels. This approach doubled our hires from the previous year! Can't recommed the employer services enough - they bring an organised and warm approach to graduate recruitment.

Teach First

They can cover one term or a whole academic year and will include a tailored mix of activities and sponsorship options, giving you an overview of future engagement, and a peace of mind that your organisation has secured all activities and events of interest early in the academic year.

We will offer you activities that we organise in-house, as well as support you with advertising via the University of Sheffield Students’ Union.

You can see an example of a potential timeline of yearly engagement on the infographic below.

Your ideal engagement plan may look like the one above but it doesn't have to. That's why packages like these are created on a case-by-case basis to make sure that we suit your needs, as well as your budget.

Contact us for more details and to discuss any of the sponsorship options above.

→ Video case studies

Give students an insight into your organisation or occupation.

Create a ‘Day in the life of...’ visual, or take students on a tour of your office/factory/site. Video case studies are hosted on the Careers & Employability Service website allowing students to access them at any time.