Working directly with students

SEED Placements

SEED is a new eight week summer internship scheme from the University of Reading. The scheme is open to all local business and enterprises, providing talented and enthusiastic students to undertake individual projects. Find out more....

Presentations

Come and present the advantages of working for your organisation directly to students during the Autumn or Spring terms.

We will email all finalists telling them about the presentation, and if you send posters, we can distribute these around campus.

Cost: £100 + VAT (admin fee) and room charge where applicable. Catering available on request.

Interviews on campus

We are also able to arrange rooms on campus for you to interview students.

Cost: £50 + VAT (admin fee) and room charge where applicable.

Career Management Skills

Career Management Skills is an award winning scheme at the University of Reading, which incorporates education on careers directly into undergraduate programmes. The aim of the programme is to better prepare students to cope with the demands of the workplace and so that they can be prepared when they start their careers.

As an employer, you can get involved by participating in one or more of the 3 taught sessions that the programme comprises of. This would give you the chance to support students with their career planning and indirectly promote yourself to students from those academic backgrounds you want to target.

These are some of the ways that you might choose to contribute, for example by:

• Running an exercise to develop/assess key skills (e.g. team work)
• Providing, from your staff, a recent graduate from the University of Reading to talk about their career development
• Short presentations on career opportunities in your field of expertise
• Presentation on job seeking advice (e.g. how you recruit and what you look for in a good CV)

Further information is available.

Cost: Free of charge

Headstart

We also offer employers opportunities to run "skills based" or vocational workshops through our centralised skills workshop programme, Headstart. Typically, employers use their expertise in areas such as interview technique or writing effective application forms, but we also welcome talks on topics such as leadership, teamwork etc.

Benefits from greater publicity than separately organised events, but must be organised a term in advance.

Cost: Free of charge

If you are interested in running a workshop as part of the CMS programme, please contact Sandhya Patel on 0118 378 8358.

If you would like to arrange a presentation or interview on campus, please contact careerscentre@reading.ac.uk or call 0118 378 8359.

If you would like to run a Headstart workshop, please contact Emma Butler on 0118 378 6614.