Small and medium-sized entities: SME Consultancy

The Internships, Placements & Work Experience Team has previously run and recruited to internship programmes. We combine our own learning with CIPD and ISE advice to produce good practice that we know leads to productive, motivated interns. As such, we are able to advise you on how your needs best fit with our students' skills and qualities.

Our free SME consultancy services include:

• Understand your business need and timings - to share when students are available and explore the best option
• Design of opportunity – help to define a job description or project experience outline
• Design of advert – reading and making suggestions to optimise student engagement
• Support you in advertising to Warwick students - via our vacancies portal, myAdvantage
• Advice and guidance on good practice during your recruitment and selection and managing and intern/placement student

We will do everything we can to help you present the most attractive offer to our students.

To see the further support and services available to SMEs, please visit the website here.

In addition we can signpost to wider University departments across Warwick - so whether you are looking for a student for an internship, placement or work experience, looking to recruit a graduate, access temporary support, student consultancy support, an apprentice; we can help.

What we can't do for you

The Internships, Placements & Work Experience Team supports the good practice of employers in work experience design and delivery. Sadly, we cannot:

• Source students to your specification and/or match talent – this is the role played by Unitemps
• Control the labour market – we will do everything we can to help you present the most attractive offer, but we can’t control the outcomes of your recruitment processes
• Guarantee engagement with students from a specific academic department, when advertising centrally

• Provide specialist HR, legal, financial or immigration advice, but we will endeavour to signpost.

Resources

• Common Best Practice Code for High-quality InternshipsLink opens in a new window – Published by the Trades Union Congress on behalf of the Gateways to the Professions Collaborative Forum
• AGCAS position on unpaid work experience or placements longer than four weeksLink opens in a new window – AGCAS
• The National Minumum Wage and Living WageLink opens in a new window – GOV.UK
• National Minimum Wage: work experience and internshipsLink opens in a new window – GOV.UK
• Employment rights and pay for internsLink opens in a new window – GOV.UK
• Volunteer placements, rights and expensesLink opens in a new window – GOV.UK
• Volunteer Internships in the Voluntary SectorLink opens in a new window – NCVO
• Employment contractsLink opens in a new window – GOV.UK