Provide a student placement

Management students study a range of degree subjects across the areas of business management, equipping them with the skills-set and knowledge to fulfil key roles across your business. Examples of placement roles ideal for management students include:

• Account Assistant
• Business Intelligence and Analytics Placement
• Business Management Trainee
• Commercial Operations Management Internship
• Communications Placement
• European Sales & Marketing Placement
• Financial Risk Management Placement
• Project Management Internship
• PR and Communications Assistant

About placement years

We offer our undergraduate students a chance to undertake a degree with employment experience which includes a placement year in industry in-between their second and final years of study.

Employing a Sheffield University Management School student on a year-long placement can provide your organisation with a number of benefits.

• It's an opportunity to gain fresh ideas and enthusiasm
• A chance to access up to date management theory, skills, and knowledge
• A placement student can help you complete a business project
• It can help you create a talent pipeline for future
• It's a route into a leading UK research-led institution

What you need to know

Throughout the placement: There should be someone available to line manage the student for the entirety of the placement, and you will need to consider the job-role of the placement; Is it suitable for an undergraduate? What are their key activities and projects the placement is based on? Do you have adequate insurance and health & safety in place?

Time: Placements can commence any time from late June to September for a minimum of 38 weeks although a full 12 months is ideal. Students can choose to do two 6 month placements.

Cost: Students should be paid a salary during the placement year. Guidance on appropriate salary levels is available from the Placement Team. If your organisation is unable to pay a salary during the year, please contact the Placement Team to discuss alternative solutions.

Important documents: Upon offering the successful student a placement we will require you to issue the student with a contract of employment detailing terms and conditions and a job description. We will also require you to provide adequate Health and Safety information.

About summer placements

Management School students can also be available during the summer for 8 to12-week long placement opportunities within a company. These placements are usually aimed at 2nd year students, but we encourage all levels to gain summer employment experience where possible.

The benefits of recruiting a student to work for you on a summer placement are similar to those of a year-long placement.

• The opportunity to gain fresh ideas and enthusiasm from a motivated individual
• Benefit from up to date Management practice and skills
• Cost effective recruitment solution
• Low risk
• An opportunity to make early contact and assess placement students for possible employment beyond graduation
• Creation of links with a leading UK research-led institution.

What you need to know

There are a few things you need to think about when it comes to offering a summer placement to students:

Throughout the placement: There should be someone available to line manage the student for the entirety of the placement, and you will need to consider the job-role of the placement; is it suitable for an undergraduate? What are their key activities and projects of the placement. Do you have adequate insurance and health & safety in place?

Job role: What are the activities and projects that will make up the placement and are these an appropriate level for an undergraduate or postgraduate student?

Policies: Do you have adequate insurance and health & safety in place?

Time: Summer placements can usually take place between June - August for between 8-12 weeks.