Essex Interns Vacancy Registration

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Through the Essex Interns scheme, you gain access to a talented pool of students and recent graduates who can inject enthusiasm and fresh approaches into your business. They can help you plan or deliver a specific project, or simply provide extra resource for a busy workload. An intern could allow you to kick start a strategic project that might have been put on hold or not completed due to budget or time restrictions, and free up and support your permanent staff. Taking on an intern can not only give your business a real boost but, at the same time, you'll be providing an intern with invaluable work experience which can considerably enhance their long-term employability.

What is an Internship?

An internship must be a genuine paid work opportunity, which includes an element of learning and development. This may simply be the opportunity for the intern to gain a better understanding of the business environment, by allowing them to apply their knowledge in a workplace setting, or could involve the development of more comprehensive project-specific skills. Internships can be part-time during term time and full-time during vacations and on graduation. They can vary in length from around six weeks to one year.

Pay

Interns must be paid at least the national minimum wage, but we would encourage you to offer a rate of pay appropriate to the level of work undertaken.

What we do

Our team will proactively promote your vacancy and send you a list of applicants. This service is only available if your internship is offered primarily to Essex students or graduates. If you have an internship that you are promoting to universities throughout the UK, please use our free CareerHub vacancy board to advertise it.

Recruitment process

  1. Complete the below form. The internship will need to be approved by our team. 
  2. If the internship is approved we will promote your vacancy for you and aim to provide you with a list of suitable applicants in around ten working days.
  3. You choose who to interview and whether to offer any of the applicants the position.
  4. Let us know who you're employing and we'll draw up an agreement that both you and the intern will sign.
  5. If we do not have any suitable applicants for you we will advise you of this and discuss steps we can take to attract more applications.
  6. We'll stay in touch during the internship to make sure it's running smoothly.

Benefits for your Business

  • Increase productivity: Get short-term support and free your employees from side-projects, enabling them to focus on more creative or higher-level strategic tasks.
  • Gain fresh perspectives: Interns can bring new energy and fresh insights to your business, and new perspectives on problems. They can encourage innovation and bring new skills and knowledge to your workforce. A new and motivated member of staff can also invigorate your team, particularly within SMEs.
  • Source future employees: An internship programme is an effective year-round recruitment tool. Use summer and part-time term-time internships to provide an ongoing pipeline of potential future employees.
  • Test-drive talent: A graduate internship can serve as a trial period for recruitment to a permanent post, with no obligation.
  • Develop current staff: Graduate and student internships present opportunities for your existing team to develop their supervisory, management, mentoring and training skills.
  • Give back to the community: Hiring interns not only helps students in your community get started in their careers - it enhances the local workforce as a whole. Internships help to retain graduate talent in the local area.
  • Promote your business: Many top students apply for graduate jobs with big national firms, not always realising the career pathways available in local SMEs. When seeking internships, candidates prefer SMEs, feeling that they'll get more hands-on training and real experience in smaller organisations. Many then stay in the SME sector.

Please note you will need to directly employ any interns through PAYE and pay on at least a monthly basis. We cannot accept unpaid roles, self-employed vacancies, zero hours contracts, or employment that involves working at an employer’s private home address. All interns must be employed by you before they can undertake any work for you. Please note that if you intend to engage any intern who is under the age of 18 you must provide a copy of your young person risk assessment and safeguarding policy before the internship starts.

The Equality Act 2010 sets out positive action provisions to allow an employer to take steps to encourage people from an under-represented group to take advantage of opportunities for employment. We would encourage you to include any statements you may have that outline your organisation’s commitment to equality, in your internship registration application.

If you have any questions please contact us at industryengagement@essex.ac.uk

Organisation Details


Please enter the name of the organisation that you are representing.
Location of business premises/internship
Please enter the address of the organisation's working premises (where the internship will take place).
Please enter the name of the point of contact about this internship.
Please enter the email address of the point of contact about this internship.
Please give the URL of your company website home page
Please enter the telephone number of the point of contact about this internship.
Please provide a summary overview to tell potential applicants a bit more about your organisation.
Please tell us any other information that might help a candidate assess whether they can undertake this internship such as is your premises wheelchair accessible, accessible by public transport, is there parking available etc.
Please select the number of current employees at the organisation.
Please select the sector that your organisation operates in.
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