Offering internships
We know that all organisations are different and employers have different needs. So the Graduate Talent Pool will offer maximum flexibility to enable you to shape your internship offering to maximise the benefit to your organisation.
The key to developing a successful internship and recruiting the right candidate is to ensure you have a clear picture of what you are offering and what you expect from prospective interns.
You need to:
- think through what you need the graduate to do - this could be a task requiring specialist knowledge or skills that are not currently present within your organisation
- state your needs upfront
- be clear about the objectives of the job – and use these when discussing the role at any interviews you hold
- put prospective interns through the same selection process as any other potential employee
Please note, GTP only accepts advertisements for live internship vacancies. Any adverts found to be sign posting to external sites will be removed.
More help on offering internships
The key to developing a successful internship is to ensure you have a clear picture of what you are offering and what you expect from prospective interns. This will ensure both parties have a clear picture of expectations from the beginning, and will help you recruit the right candidate.
Work Experience - An Employers Guide - This Briefing, developed by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), outlines the case for employers becoming involved in work experience, or increasing their involvement in it. It also provides a framework and a set of guidelines, which can be used to optimise the quality of work experience which they offer.
Red Hot Talent - A guide for SMEs, produced by The National Council for Work Experience (NCWE), to support them through the process of recruiting and managing a student to either complete a business-driven project or be employed on a part-time, temporary basis. The NCWE also offers an accreditation programme for work experience and internship schemes. The NCWE Quality Mark is an industry-standard benchmark ensuring the delivery of high quality programmes.
