Students looking for a year in industry

[Barry Cranford]

(Apologies to those that may have seen my announcement on the LJC…)

Hi guys,

I wanted to find out if there are any mentors here that would be interested in recruiting a graduate for a year long placement as part of their course. At RecWorks we are firm believers that a year in industry is a positive part of a technical degree course. We have worked with many students that have done this as part of their course and it almost always has a very positive effect on the remainder of their degree, their final result and their ability to hit the ground running when they do start in their careers. 

Some of you may remember we launched an initiative last year called Mentored Projects which was to try and get more students doing projects from industry. Through this and other initiatives we have been involved in through the GDC, we have been forging some great bonds with universities throughout London. 

We have now been invited to help place a students find companies they can do a year long placement within, that will form part of their degree course. Technical students could come in and work with you for a year. Worth noting that all students on these programmes must have achieved a minimum average of 60% across all their first-year modules, so they are very good students.

I’m interested to hear from:

- Employers that would consider having a student work with them for a year long placement starting October

- Anyone that have had students in the past and whether this was a good/bad thing for them

- Anyone that did this as part of their degree program and whether they felt it was beneficial (and how)

If anyone would be interested in more details on this initiative then please do let me know.

Kind regards,

Barry

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[ca...@novoda.com]

Hi Barry,

We had a year placement from a student who got in touch via hackernews. He is - I reckon - the best employee we ever had. He was like a sponge, learning and applying. He was so grateful for the learnings that it felts really rewarding. He nearly did not go back to Uni and stay with us but we gave him a position a bit to late. He has been helping out part time while studying. He will be back with us in June which I am really looking forward to.

I would do it again but I reckon a lot of it comes from him contacting us directly via hackernews. We got 2 guys applying from there and it definitely the best channel of communication when it comes to finding talent (i.e. hackers). We did not get so much luck when contacting Unis directly.

my 2 cents.

Carl

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[Dafydd James]

Hi Barry, we have done this before. Happy to do it again. 

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[Tavo Elias]

Hi Barry,

Apologies for the late reply. We would be more than happy to do that here this year, as well as hosting some undergraduates for summer (or some other time) internships.

Cheers,

Tavo.