Take control of your future, transform your job prospects and be job-ready when you have finished your studies. Sign up to Placer - a free app offering work experience and graduate job opportunities for students.
Placer for students
Gaining workplace experience alongside your studies is more important than ever if you want to secure your dream job. In a highly competitive job market, employers will want to see that you have job-specific skills and practical experience of work. This experience could be anything from an hour, some buddying, involvement in a discrete project, to longer-term placements.
Work experience will open doors and create opportunities for you, which is why we’ve launched Placer. The Placer concept is unique and is revolutionising work experience for students – it is the only work experience platform that brings together an extensive network of employers and universities/colleges and promotes their work experience opportunities to students like you through a free app.
And Placer is easy to use. Simply create a profile with a personal statement outlining your education, training and any existing experience, and start finding work experience opportunities based on industry, role type, duration and location, now.
Having an app that is going to help you to find work placements as easily as going onto Facebook is going to create opportunities for students, especially for students on really competitive courses.
Economics student, Manchester Metropolitan University
I have to arrange work placements as part of my course but don’t have much time to do so. To have an app that’s quick and simple to use will be really helpful. The app is good because it’s connecting you to future employers, and it allows you to personalise your search to find the experiences you need to build up your CV.
Economics student, Psychology and Education student at Manchester Met
Placer offers lots of different placement opportunities and it’s simple to use and you can use it when you are out and about, you don’t need to use your laptop. I like that you can upload your CV and add your details and then apply for lots of placements – it’s like a one-click apply!
Economics student, Psychology student Manchester Met
How does Placer work for students?
To improve your chances of finding the perfect job once you've graduated, you need to develop word-ready skills alongside your studies. But finding work experience opportunities isn't always easy. We have an answer ... Placer
If your university/college has signed up to Placer, you can use the free Placer app to browse the work experience opportunities generated by your university/college, alongside a whole load of others curated by Placer. And, who knows, if your work experience goes well, you might just have connected with your employer of the future.
Set yourself up on the Placer app
- Download the app.
- Create your personal profile outlining your skills and interests.
- Use your app to track shortlisted opportunities and those you have applied for.
Browse work experience opportunities
- Placer's clever matchmaking technology will tell you about work experience opportunities that might be of interest to you.
- Refine your search by duration, type of work and location.
- All you need to do is swipe left and right to select the ones you like the look of.
Review your placements and receive feedback
- Leave and receive feedback on your placements.
- Some employers award skills badges you can use to demonstrate the experience you have acquired.
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20TH NOVEMBER 2018
Cass Business School student on the transforming benefits of a work placement
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15TH MAY 2018
Working in partnership to expand opportunities for students
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1ST MAY 2018
Why work experience is the most important thing you will do
At school I was taught to do well so that I could go to university, that was the end goal. But, I wasn’t taught how to prepare for what came after university or what job roles were available to me, I was just told to choose a subject to pursue. I was fortunate enough that my course at university offered a placement year which also counted towards my degree. Without this being an available..