Undergraduate Placement Providers

Collaborating with Warwick Business School

Engaging an undergraduate (UG) student on a placement year can be an excellent starting route when considering your talent pipeline and filling your graduate level positions. Students on our UG courses have the opportunity to go on a placement year working anywhere in the world, providing that the placement and location passes our internal approval process.

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Placement Provider Guidance

We have compiled some useful information for organisations who have made a placement offer to our students. If you have any questions relating to your responsibilities when supporting a student during their placement with your organisation, get in touch with the WBS Undergraduate Programme team.

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Our students are ready to make a difference to your organisation.

Warwick is the fourth most targeted university by leading employers, for good reason (The Graduate Market Report 2025). Our undergraduate degrees include a range of elective modules such as HR, marketing, logistics, digital innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, law, and customer service management. This means that our students are interested in a wide variety of business functions.

To ensure our early-career students are truly graduate-ready, we’ve developed the PRACTICE Framework which is embedded into our curriculum. Designed in collaboration with industry, it includes the skills, mindset, and adaptability that businesses need now, as well as in the future. WBS students are ready to deliver from day one and make an immediate impact.

PRACTICE Framework

• Professionalism - Being ready for any challenge: equipped, adaptable, and reliable to thrive in any culture and environment.
• Responsibility - Being accountable for their actions, ensuring high standards, and being ethical.
• Analytical Thinking - Gathering and evaluating information, deconstructing problems, and spotting patterns to make informed decisions.
• Critical Thinking - Objectively evaluating information to make a reasoned judgement, through questioning assumptions and challenging beliefs.
• Teamwork - Working effectively with others to achieve goals, adapting to team challenges, and guiding and inspiring others with positive leadership.
• Innovation and Creativity -Driving original ideas and creative solutions to address challenges or improve processes.
• Communication - Conveying the message clearly and listening actively, regardless of cultural or linguistic background.
• Emotional Awareness - Recognising and sharing emotions, appreciating cultural differences, and responding with compassion.

Our Employer Relations team and dedicated Placements and Work Experience team are happy to work with you to develop new and innovative ways of engaging with our students. Complementing this, our CareersPlus coaching team works closely with our students to fully prepare them for engaging with employers, helping with CVs and applications, through to assessment centres, interviews and employment offers.

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