Terms and conditions for advertising vacancies

1. The Student Employment, Experience and Careers Centre (SEECC) asserts full editorial control over the vacancies submitted to its website.
2. The SEECC must establish that organisations registering with us are legitimate companies offering genuine work opportunities for our students and graduates. Although we reserve the right to refuse to advertise a vacancy without giving a specific reason, some common grounds for rejecting an organisation include:
   • organisation is not registered as a company in the UK
   • no business email address is provided (e.g. googlemail or hotmail address is given)
   • no website address is provided (this makes it difficult for the University and its students to research and verify the organisation)
   • overseas employers may be rejected if they do not have offices in the UK
3. Employers must ensure that all advertisements are fully compliant with current employment legislation.
4. The SEECC will not advertise the following:
   • vacancies that pay below the adult minimum wage
   • vacancies that pay commission only
   • vacancies that require students to be self-employed
   • vacancies where students are employed by a private individual or household
   • unpaid vacancies where there is no genuine exemption from paying the national minimum wage*
5. * Unpaid vacancies (including placement opportunities) - SEECC receives a high volume of vacancies every day, most of which are paid and offer at least the adult minimum wage. Whilst we appreciate organisations regularly look to offer "work experience" for our students, either a short term project or a few hours a week for example, SEECC has the responsibility to ensure that any unpaid opportunities we promote to our students are fair and valuable sources of work experience and not just "unpaid work". Therefore, we reserve the right to refuse the promotion of unpaid opportunities which are:
   • promoted by anyone other than registered charities or voluntary groups
   • actual job vacancies which would normally be filled by a permanent or temporary member of staff (e.g. data input, telesales, administrative work, filing, market research)
   • ongoing (e.g. 16 hours a week for 3 months or longer term)
   • require students to make any form of payment.
   We understand that specific sectors traditionally offer unpaid experience in order for students to gain a foothold in the industry, e.g. media and arts, however, we review each unpaid opportunity on a case by case basis.
6. As part of a University-wide policy, the SEECC will not advertise part-time jobs that require students to work more than 16 hours a week during term time. This is because we do not want students' work to interfere with their studies.
7. Placements - Please note that schools and departments within The University may have additional criteria for placement opportunity providers, especially those offering 12-month placements; an approval of a placement opportunity by SEECC does not infer an endorsement of the full criteria a school or department may require. Please ensure you discuss this with students prior to making a recruitment decision, or contact us for guidance.
8. Vacancies submitted via TARGET Connect will not automatically appear on the website. Organisation registrations and vacancy postings are proofread and approved by a member of staff. We aim to approve all vacancies within 48 hours of receiving them, exceptionally within 72 hours.
9. Please provide a closing date for your vacancy. If there is no closing date, we will advertise the vacancy on the website for 12 weeks. This can be extended if required via the TARGET Connect login.
10. Please provide full contact details including postal address, email address and phone number. You can specify admin only contact details and student application details with your TARGET Connect profile.
11. Vacancies are listed on a closed access website - ie are accessible only by University of Reading students and recent graduates. You are able to update your vacancy listings via the TARGET Connect login. Please ensure that you provide contact details or a link to your website for full job descriptions, person specifications and application forms.
12. In an effort to keep the list as broad and varied as possible, we reserve the right to reject multiple vacancy postings.

Please do not submit vacancies in capital letters.

Note to recruitment agencies

The SEECC will only post adverts for specific vacancies. We do not run generic adverts for recruitment agencies. If you wish to advertise a vacancy but do not want to publicise the name of your client, we are happy to run adverts without this information. However, you must divulge the name of your client to the Student Employment, Experience and Careers Centre when you submit a vacancy.

Continue to our vacancy submission page.