2. What will we cover?
• Eligibility
• What is an internship?
• Why do it?
• The schemes
• Doing it yourself
• Making contact
• How can we help?
3. Eligibility
Undergraduate (UG) Students
UG students are permitted to work full time outside of term times as they are not expected
to be studying during those periods.
In the final year, UG students are permitted to work full time at the end of the summer term,
for this academic year this is 13th June 2015 (www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/keydates/).
Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Students
Whilst registered, PGT students are not permitted to work full time at any point (including
during the normal ‘vacation’ periods) as they are expected to be in full time study.
The date on which PGT students officially complete their studies is as stated on your CAS
(for the current academic year this is 30 September 2015). After this date PGT students are
free to work full-time until the end date of their visa
4. What is an Internship?
• Summer or vacation internship
• Graduate internship
5. Internship schemes
- Different sectors, different
schemes
- Large corporations’ structured
internships
- Deadlines often Jan- March time
- Often for penultimate year
students, some for 1st years
- Some sectors may not offer
structured schemes
6. Why should you do it?
• Is it the right career choice?
• Establishing contacts
• Relevant work experience on your CV
• Gain up to date work reference
• Get a realistic view of what is involved
• Developing skills
• Apply skills and knowledge
• Get a job!
7. How to find opportunities
General internship websites include:
- www.topinternships.com – dedicated site
- www.prospects.ac.uk/workexperience
- www.targetjobs.co.uk – searchable database of summer internships
- www.ratemyplacement.co.uk- searchable database
Our jobs database:
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/search (search under vacation jobs
or graduate jobs)
Our Getting Experience sections:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/gettingexperience
8. Sector Specific Information- check
out our Sector Guides
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers
9. STEP Internships
• The Step Programme offers undergraduates and recent graduates a
range of work experience opportunities.
• These can be either short term work placements, generally lasting
between eight weeks and six months or longer term internships lasting
between six and 12 months.
• All Step opportunities have a genuine development focus, are
structured and often project based and importantly, are all paid.
• www.step.org.uk
step logo here
10. University funded Internships
• We are currently working in partnership with Santander Banking
Group to provide paid internships for University of Sussex students
and graduates in local small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
• Santander part finance these internships but they take place in local
companies
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Claire Braun (MA Media and Cultural Studies 2013) - Customer Marketing Associate,
11. Current summer/vacation internship
opportunities
Summer Vacation Scheme - Taylor Wessing
Summer Vacation Scheme - Simmons & Simmons)
Vacation Internship Programme 2015 (Audit) – KPMG
Summer Placements – Centrica
Summer Intern Programme - Lloyd's
Intern with an NGO in India this summer - Development in Action
Change Management Internship 2015 – Zurich
Technology and Operations Intern - Santander
12. Current Graduate internship
opportunities
Trafficking and Tagging Intern - Rakuten Attribution
Network Support Intern - Bspoke Global Networks
Video Editor Intern - Akwaaba Music
Communications Intern - Tesla Motors
Digital Marketing Intern – Charanga
Graduate Digital Marketing Assistant Intern - Qube
13. BUNAC
Intern in Britain
This programme gives students and recent graduates the opportunity to
work as an intern in the UK for up to 12 months, swapping from a tier 4,
to a tier 5 visa. Find out more at www.bunac.org/usa/ interninbritain
and call one of the team on 0333 999 7516.
14. How to apply
• Recruitment processes can include
CV or application form.
• Important to research the role and
the sector.
• Market yourself for that role.
15. Creative Approaches- finding
contacts
• Social contacts
• Academics
• Newspapers, journals, magazines,
• www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/research_
employers
• Yellow Pages (www.yell.com )
• Company directories/lists
• Linked in – growing in importance
16. Other opportunities
• Careers events (Make it Happen!)
• Insight days for law, accountancy etc
• Volunteering www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
• Part time and summer work
• Student societies
17. Help available at Careers and
Employability
• Briefings
• Careers Advisers
• Advice
• Vacancies
• Events
• Join us on twitter or Facebook
• www.sussex.ac.uk/careers
Editor's Notes
This session is about how to find Internships and Vacation schemes. The presentation will be put online after the session so please take notes if you wish but it will be available later.
I will take questions afterwards but please also feel free to stay around after the session to ask me anything
Link to presentation slides is from:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/gettingexperience/summerinternships
What do you mean by Internships?
Why should you do it?
Formal work experience schemes & internships
How to set up your own work experience & finding contacts
Making contact
What do you mean by Internships?
Why should you do it?
Formal work experience schemes & internships
How to set up your own work experience & finding contacts
Making contact
An Internship is an opportunity offered by an employer to potential employees, called "interns", to work at a firm for a fixed, limited period of time.
Interns are usually undergraduates or students, and most internships last for any length of time between one week and 12 months.
Internships (also called "placements", "work placements" or "industrial placements") may be part-time or full-time.
They are usually part-time if offered during a university semester and full-time if offered during the summer, winter or Easter holidays, when they typically last 4-12 weeks.
Placements are usually full-time, and take place irrespective of term time or holiday time.
Internships work differently in different sectors and in different companies
Large corporations in areas of business, finance, retail, pharmaceuticals, advertising, law, engineering & IT will often have structured schemes (and always paid). A lot of companies will take into account your performance on internship if you apply for their graduate scheme- this is quite prevalent in Law firms.
Often for penultimate year students, some for 1st years (HSBC 1st year summer internship, RBS Easter Insight, Ernst & Young 1st year programmes)
Some sectors such as International Development, media, public services, environment may not offer structured schemes and you may need to try volunteering or speculative approaches
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/gettingexperience/summerinternships
Confirming your career choices (or confirming that you have made the wrong choice!).
Establishing a network of contacts to be used in the future, maybe for further work-experience opportunities or to help with finding a job after graduation.
Having some relevant work experience on your CV – adds prestige
Gaining an up to date work reference from an employer recognized by others who you might want to work with
Seeing work from the inside and gaining a realistic view of what is involved.
Developing more flexible communication skills and self-confidence in the context of employment
A chance to apply some of the knowledge or skills you have gained so far to the real working world.
Some organisations increasingly view placements as part of their recruitment processes- impress and you could ease your way into a graduate role later
If you have a career area in mind, investigate if there are advertised opportunities in that area. Many companies offer formal schemes.
You can search generally as there are many websites such as target jobs, prospects that have searchable databases of opportunities. However if you have a particular sector in mind, its likely that defining what you are looking for and being specific will reap rewards. There are so many internships available that it can become overwhelming and being targeted in your searching can be a productive way of finding the right internship for you. Our sector guides are a good way to do this.
We have detailed Sector Guides which will help you to target your search more specifically to the area you are interested in.
Show guide- Development pages
There are might not be anything there yet but they are coming!
There are might not be anything there yet but they are coming!
Recruitment processes vary depending on the sector. Could be a CV or application. More structured schemes may also need you to complete psychometric test, assessment centres and interview. We have resources on the CEC website to help with every stage of the process and one-to-one help through an appointment with a Careers Adviser for feedback on applications, brief interview practice.
When doing applications it’s important to take them seriously and give them adequate time and preparation. Research the role and the sector. Use the sector guides shown before.
Then spend time thinking how you match what is required this role and market yourself for it in a CV or application form. 4th Dec Effective CVs and application forms
Friends, family, friends of friends .... Don’t be afraid to ask around. If you have any contacts, use them!
Academics, your personal tutor, lecturers etc
Contacts from past work experience, vacation work etc.
Vacancies advertised in newspapers at Careers & Employability. If you have seen a company that interests you use the contact details from the vacancy advert.
You can search for employers by name and type on the our website: www.sussex.ac.uk/cdec/research_employers
Names in journals, magazines, reports, the press.
The phone book and Yellow Pages (www.yell.com )
Specialist directories and lists of companies
Linked in – growing in importance – we have a social media session this week
- Sussex plus, Finding part time work, CVs & Applications
- are available daily. Tel 01273 678429
- on CVs, personal statements, cover letters and application forms and more.
- work, experience and volunteering