Placer – a unique platform and app offering work experience and graduate job opportunities to students in higher education.
Employers need work-ready graduates and students need work experience to gain the skills employers demand. But there is a shortage of work experience placements on offer, as well as barriers for students from low income backgrounds or those without word-of-mouth connections. Placer is a partnership between the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), Jisc and Unite Students, and is addressing this challenge nationally .
Placer is revolutionising the way that students access work experience opportunities by offering a unique platform on which employers can publish their work experience opportunities (anything from one-day tasters to long-term placements) to reach multiple universities/colleges and their students.
The result?
- Students improve their employment prospects by developing the skills they need to be work-ready when they graduate.
- Employers benefit from a pool of student talent and get to meet their recruits of the future.
- Universities and colleges attract students who know they need to get experience of work alongside their studies.
Who is Placer for?
Employers
- Tap into a pool of high calibre student talent.
- Build lasting relationships with universities, colleges and their students.
- Meet job candidates of the future - saving you time and money on recruitment further down the line.
Universities and Colleges
- Attract the best students by offering high-quality work experience opportunities.
- Help your students develop the job-ready skills they need alongside their studies.
- Give students access to work experience opportunities generated by you, as well as those curated by Placer.
Students
- Enhance your job prospects by gaining job-specific skills and practical experience of work.
- Access a wide range of opportunities from your university and Placer’s network of employers.
- Use work experience to make informed career decisions.
2ND APRIL 2019
March Community Update
Our March community update is now live! You can view this in your browser here. If you would like to sign up for future updates on our Contact us page we will send you our latest community updates as soon as they are published! ..
8TH MARCH 2019
The work experience revolution and you
A Placer guide to the future of early career prospects At Placer we see work experience as an umbrella term which covers a huge range of opportunities, all of which we are perfectly poised to help you realise. Starting off our guide are the more traditional kinds of work experience which you are most likely aware of already, these might include: Summer placements A position taken within..
1ST MARCH 2019
Check out our first monthly community update, keeping you in the loop with all things Placer!
We’d like to let you know how well things are going at Placer. We have started a monthly community update to pull together some recent highlights to show you what’s new, examples of featured jobs and how things are going. Every month we will publish a new update sharing relevant news on our employer or university partners as well as our student base. If you are already a member of t..