Offering a work placement has a range of benefits to employers:

• Fills a skills gap or vacancy at low-cost without long term commitment
• Completes specific one-off specialist projects
• Injects fresh ideas from enthusiastic and motivated students
• Develops mentoring or supervisory skills of current staff
• Enables a test-run of talented individuals before offering a permanent position
• Create international networks through students from overseas

Internships / Work Placements

Benefits to organisations and employers

There are a range of potential benefits to employers offering internships:

• Fill a skills gap, knowledge need or vacancy
  Solve your short term staff shortages and complete specific one-off specialist projects without long term commitments.
• Inject fresh ideas and innovation possibilities
  Complement your existing organisational skills with new ideas, knowledge and up-to-date theoretical concepts.
• Add value to your organisation
  Access high quality, reflective and analytical thinkers, who are motivated and willing to get involved.
• Develop current staff / employees
  Your current staff can develop their mentoring or supervisory skills by working with our internship students.
• Try before you buy: the test run
  Identify and test run talented individuals who you may want to consider recruiting.
• Raise your profile
  Inform students and the wider community of opportunities existing within your organisation.
• Low cost solution
  Reduce recruitment costs by advertising your vacancies to Wittenborg students without cost, whilst also accessing a low cost staffing solution.
• Create international networks
  Build international business networks and country-specific market intelligence through international students.