Internships

Graduate Talent Pool is a great way of finding a graduate intern

An internship is a fixed-term period of work experience and an effective way of attracting a talented graduate into your organisation. Through providing an internship, you will offer a young person a chance to build up some valuable experience to add to that all important CV.

A young graduate with passion and enthusiasm will be keen to put everything they’ve learnt through university into practice. They are already well prepared for work, which means an intern should bring real value to your organisation and flourish.

Benefits include:

• accessing talented and ambitious individuals who are keen to work for you
• building your business through new skills and flexible resources
• enabling flexibility within your workforce by bringing in graduates with specific skills to complete time-limited projects
• the option to offer paid or unpaid internships structured around delivering a specific project or piece of work
• the opportunity to assess the quality of potential, long-term staff.

Make the most of the Graduate Talent Pool

The Government is increasing opportunities for graduates who want to improve their employability. Its Graduate Talent Pool programme advises organisations on how to start offering internships.

Find out more by visiting the Graduate Talent Pool website.

Give a non-graduate an opportunity to shine

Internships do not have to be offered exclusively to graduates. There are many enthusiastic young people in Britain who may not have chosen to take the path to university but who are bright, willing and able to come into your organisation and provide you with dedication, hard work and a flurry of fresh new ideas.

To help you tap into this group of talented individuals we have set up a specialised service, managed by Reed in Partnership.

Through this new programme you can offer 8-13 week internships or shorter work experience opportunities for two weeks. As part of this service, Reed in Partnership will publicise your placement opportunities free of charge to our pool of eligible young people. They will then collate and assess the responses and present you with a shortlist of willing young people to choose from. They will also provide you and the young person with help and support during the placement.

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