Typically anything from a few hours (usually ad hoc) to a full week (e.g. where it forms part of a recruitment campaign).

The student is a guest with a keen interest in your business, role or sector.

Insight Days/taster sessions are a welcoming opportunity for students to visit your business, to find out more about your purpose, culture, workplace and challenges, or to hear about your business via an online or on-campus presentation that gives a flavour of what it’s like to be part of your team.

Once you have decided what you want from the event, it can be a great way to showcase your organisation, raise your profile, introduce students to any unique features of your working environment and build relationships to support recruitment.

During the day you may wish to include: presentations (company, values, roles, what you expect of students, how to typically apply), panel discussion, information about the recruitment/selection process, group interactive activity, facilitated networking, brief work shadowing, a brief tour and the opportunity for students to ask questions!

You can advertise ‘Insight Days’ as an opportunity on our myAdvantage jobs portal, where students will apply to you directly.

Although you will want to plan for the event and will take time out on the day to host students and discuss their observations, the student is only visiting, is not undertaking work of any sort and, as such, there are no pay-related costs.

However, it is good practice to provide reasonable UK travel costs and expenses if possible, to support more diverse student engagement.