Graduate Placements

The Graduate Placement Scheme and Shell STEP Work Placements

Graduate Placement Scheme

Calling all Pendle graduates?..

Are you a recent graduate looking for paid employment?

If so the Graduate Placement Scheme could be the answer.

The scheme, funded by Pendle Borough Council, provides local graduates with an opportunity to carry out a 6-12 month work placement across a range of businesses and areas of work. The placements range from engineering, environmental and design to business management, marketing and IT, and will allow students to either undertake an individual project or fill an existing role within the business.

The positions are salaried (pro-rata) and the minimum starting salary is £16,000 p/a.

Calling all Pendle businesses.....

Is your business looking to invest in local home grown skills?

Are you looking to up-skill your workforce?

The Graduate Placement Scheme, funded by Pendle Borough Council, provides Pendle employers the opportunity to recruit local graduates at a subsidised cost.

The graduate will contribute to your business, either by carrying out a specific project or by filling / replacing a role within your business.

Graduates will have a variety of degree backgrounds, skills and experience and the expertise of our team will help you to produce a job description, market your vacancy and produce a shortlist of suitable applicants for you to interview. What's more, a grant subsidy is also available to assist you with the cost of employing a graduate in the first 6 months.

For further details, contact the graduate team or view more details?

The Consortium of Enterprise Agencies has delivered the Shell Step programme for over 20 years and has a skilled team on hand to assist you with your short term recruitment needs.

Shells Step helps you to get valuable work experience whilst completing a real business project in your local area. A placement will also help to improve your employability skills whilst getting paid at the same time.

Every year we give ambitious second and penultimate year undergraduates and recent graduates the chance to:

• Work within innovative small and medium-sized companies to carry out projects that require your skills, talent and enthusiasm
• Work on a project that may be relevant to your future career choices
• Be part of a team and develop your skills whilst also learning new ones
• Work on a variety of tasks including setting up IT and accountancy systems including creating databases, designing and implementing websites, devising marketing plans, carrying out market research, creating new business processes and procedures, analysing production methods, researching and designing new product concepts and much more
• Gain the skills, confidence and experience that will make a real difference to your career prospects and enhance your CV
• Get paid for your work
• Summer projects through Shell Step run for around 8 weeks between June and September
• Apply for Shell Step

What students say about Shell Step:

'Shell Step was everything I didn't expect in the best of ways! You get so involved in company life that you completely lose your student label and just become one of the team. It's a fantastic way of getting out of lecture theatres and into the real world and it gives you the chance to really push yourself in new and exciting directions.'
Katie Selby, University of Manchester 

'I'm a business - why should I apply for the Shell Step programme?'

Shell Step placelments bring a whole range of business benefits to companies like yours, utilising the skills of local undergraduates and recent graduates who study at universities across the UK. It gives you the opportunity to:

• Identify any issues you are facing and turn them into a definable and structured project
• Have a student or graduate to tackle this project, giving you a dedicated resource with a fresh perspective and objective view
• Research and develop a new product or new market area
• Provide your business with up-to-date IT & technical skills
• Design/re-develop your website and its functionality
• Create new literature/brand/image etc
• Streamline your processes and deliver benefits throughout the organisation
• Have someone with a fresh approach and boundless enthusiasm; join your team
• Shell Step Programme placements are around 8 weeks each year, between June and September
• There is a cost to participate in Shell Step, but one of the big advantages of the programme is that as an employer you won't put the student onto your normal payroll. Part of the service provided by the Consortium of Enterprise Agencies is to process the student's weekly allowance on your behalf. This in turn means you won't have any additional administration costs or employer's NI contributions to pay. To be among the dynamic and progressive companies involved in the UK's leading project-based work placement programme, register here.

What employers say about Shell Step:

'Victoria's work on images and content used in advertising and the web raised us up to the next level. We are now number one in our field on the web, and this has without question been instrumental in our success over the last 6 months.'
Mark Woodward, Sales Director, The Paper Cup Company, Lancashire

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