Work Placements
All Brunel Business School undergraduate degree courses offer the chance to spend a year on work placement.
Employers of placement students from Brunel include:
- IBM
- Adidas
- Lloyds TSB
- British Airways
- Orange
Placements are on offer at different sized organisations across the public and private sector, providing the opportunity to choose the type of experience most suited to you. In addition to providing a valuable opportunity to put what you’ve learnt in your degree into practice and to earn some much appreciated money, students find their work placement experience significantly enhances their employability when they come to graduate. In fact many students are offered employment with their work placement company upon graduation.
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Work Placement Introduction
How does the Placement and Careers Centre help with work placements?
Why is it important for students to do a Work Placement?
How does the work placement help students with their careers?
What firms can students work with on a placement year?
What kind of jobs have the students secured?
What kind of salaries are students paid on a Work Placement?
How does a placement effect graduate salary?
How does the work placement tutor system help?
What is the Brunel Business School Buddy Scheme?
Are there any overseas work placements?
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Career Prospects - Marketing Pathway
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Benefits
- You get to contextualise what you have learnt on the course. This means that students who undertake a placement are statistically more likely to achieve one of the two higher degree classifications than those who don’t;
- You gain valuable work experience – often within a blue chip organisation – this means you are more employable when you leave Brunel;
- Many of our students land a full-time permanent job with their placement employer after they graduate
- You get to earn some money.
How the placement scheme works
Students undertaking a work placement spend at least 44 weeks in an organisation working for a particular department, performing a role relevant to their studies. Work placements are carried out at the end of a student’s second year at Brunel.
When the work placement comes to an end, the student returns to Brunel to undertake the final year of their degree course. Whilst a student is out on placement, an academic member of Brunel Business School keeps in touch and all placement students and their employers are invited to attend a tutorial day at Brunel. Most work placements are organised with companies based in the UK, but where a student has contacts overseas, it is possible to organise a placement outside the UK, subject to certain conditions being met.
Features
- A sandwich placement is totally different from the kind of work experience you may have had whilst at school;
- A work placement is a proper job with a proper organisation – quite often the organisation is a household name;
- Work placement students earn proper salaries: currently students are generally being paid between £13,000 and £17,000 per annum, depending on the market sector and location – some have been known to earn considerably more than this.
