Internships

Benefits to employers

There are a range of potential benefits to employers offering internships:

• Fill a skills gap or vacancy
  Solve your short term staff shortages and complete specific one-off specialist projects without long term commitments.
• Inject fresh ideas
  Complement your existing organisational skills with new ideas, knowledge and up-to-date theoretical concepts.
• Add value to your organisation
  Access high quality, reflective and analytical thinkers, who are motivated and willing to get involved.
• Develop current staff 
  Your current staff can develop their mentoring or supervisory skills by working with our internship students.  
• Try before you buy 
  Identify and test run talented individuals who you may want to consider recruiting.  
• Raise your profile
  Inform students and the wider community of opportunities existing within your organisation.  
• Low cost solution
  Reduce recruitment costs by advertising your vacancies to our students free of charge, whilst also accessing a low cost staffing solution.
• Create international networks
  Build international business networks and country-specific market intelligence through international students.  

Find out more

For more information about internships please contact our Employability and Graduate Development Division: 
Tel: +44 (0)1392 722395
Email: gradrec@exeter.ac.uk 

Employer Career Zone

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After registering you'll be able to upload your vacancies directly onto the system.