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Placements are similar to internships in that they are structured work experience schemes through which university students enter the workplace, discover what it is like to work in a particular career sector and to develop useful skills. The term placement, rather than internship, has traditionally been used when a student had to undertake the work experience as part of their degree course – but these days some employers use the terms placement and internship interchangeably.
What kinds of placement are there? A placement year (otherwise known as a year-in-industry or a sandwich year) typically lasts between 24 and 50 weeks and is held between your penultimate and final year of studies. Summer placements, unsurprisingly, run during the university summer holidays; they are typically aimed at penultimate-year students, but some might be open to other year groups.
If you make a good impression as a placement student, many employers will either offer you a job for after graduation or put you straight through to the final stages of their graduate recruitment process; in some cases, they may also sponsor (AKA cover some of the costs of) your final year.
Placement Student - Civil Engineering (Design - Consulting) - Ireland
Belfast, GB, BT9 6HH
£20,000 - £25,000
Industrial Placement Software Engineer
Edinburgh
Summer Placement Systems Engineer
Edinburgh
Spreadex Limited
Financial Trading Industrial Placement 2024
St Albans
KPMG
KPMG 2025 Placement - Register your interest
WSP
2024 Placements - Year In Industry
Honda
Undergraduate - Business Operations & Supply Chain
Bracknell
£22,000
BDO
Industrials Placements 2024
Bristol, Edinburgh, Reading,
£23,750 - £27,450
RSM
Internal Auditor Assistant - Placement - August 2024
Chester, Reading, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bury St Edmonds, Chelmsford, Milton Keynes, Guildford, Bristol, Southampton, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Gatwick
Honda
Undergraduate - Financial Planning & Analysis
Bracknell
£22,000
EY
Assurance Industrial Placement
Leeds
BDO
BDO Industrial Placements – Glasgow
Glasgow
£20,000 - £25,000