Internships and work experience
All you need to get your work experience placement off to a flying start
Read up on the essentials. Whether you’re looking for a graduate internship, part-time or temp job, we have plenty of tips for you. Find out about the law surrounding unpaid internships, and know your rights. Search for paid internships and work experience vacancies with top graduate employers and check out volunteer opportunities and schemes. You can also learn about the key skills gained from a number of common student jobs.
Internships and work experience
- Getting work experience after graduation
- An internship is a dress rehearsal for a graduate job
- Application advice for work experience placements and internships
- Ten good reasons to look for work experience with small employers
- Unpaid internships: are they worth it?
- Timetable for graduate job action: penultimate years
- The graduate careers that start now
- Work experience: it's all good, so get it early
- Timetable for graduate job action: final years
- How to survive on expenses
- Summer work experience: the key to loving your career
- Get the right work experience to fit your needs
- How to avoid making common work experience blunders
Part-time work
- Balancing study and part-time work
- Ten skills you'll gain from working in part-time retail jobs
- Full-time student, part-time worker? Know your employment rights
- Top tips for temping
- Ways for students to make quick cash
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- Accountancy and financial management (16)
Includes accountancy, financial management and professional services
- Banking and finance (8)
Includes banking, investment, financial services, retail banking and insurance
- Construction, civil/structural engineering (5)
- Consumer products (0)
- Engineering (26)
Includes automotive, aerospace, utilities, energy, electronics, defence, manufacturing
- Environment (26)
- Hospitality, leisure and tourism (0)
- IT and telecoms (23)
- Law and related work (47)
Includes solicitors, barristers, law in Scotland, patent work
- Management consulting (4)
- Management, HR and recruitment (13)
Includes general management, human resources and recruitment, healthcare operations and management
- Media, marketing and creative (14)
Includes advertising and PR, marketing, media and publishing, art and design
- Medicine, nursing and healthcare (0)
Includes medicine, nursing and allied healthcare professions
- Property and surveying (2)
Includes property, quantity surveying and building surveying
- Public service, charities and social care (1)
Includes government and public service, social care, charity/not-for-profit
- Retail (0)
- Sales (3)
- Science, research and development (4)
- Teaching and education (1)
- Transport, logistics, purchasing and supply (3)
Get to know the top graduate employers
To get an internship or work experience with the big graduate employers, you've got to know who they are and what they do. Take a look at our Employer Insights reports. If an employer typically runs an internship scheme, you'll find info under the 'Careers and training' tab. If they currently have opportunities, a 'find internships' tab will show at the top of the report.
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