The Year in Industry is a three-way partnership between the company, the student and the scheme, with each having specific obligations:
The Year in Industry provides:
• Access to the brightest students at the earliest possible opportunity, particularly those going on to university to study;
• Engineering
• Science
• Technology
• Mathematics
• A shortlist of candidates, and their confidential student records, to match your specific needs. These can be local or from anywhere in the UK
• The legwork in the selection and interview process
• A management training course
• Advice to companies on how to make the most of their placements
• Professional guidance to students from Year in Industry mentors
• A contact point with fellow students, encouraging motivation and achievement
• Information on awards and competitions, bursaries, scholarships and other ways to further the student's career in industry and/or publicise the company
• Monitoring of programme results to ensure we continue to raise the quality of the scheme
• Ongoing contact with students through university
The Company agrees to:
• Issue the student a temporary contract on the company's standard terms and conditions of employment
• Identify real, meaningful and challenging work for the student
• Appoint a company supervisor to take responsibility for the student. The supervisor meets with the industrial mentor at least twice per year to monitor placement progress and productivity
• Allow the student to attend scheme-training sessions. Companies may specify that some training be taken as part of the student's annual holiday, but in such cases we still advise a minimum of two week's holiday is given
• Pay the student a competitive salary, companies may wish to pay more to a student that is living away from home. * Please note that this will depend upon the minimum wage and the number of hours worked by the student. Also whether the student is pre-university or an undergraduate.
• Contribute to The Year in Industry costs (Registered Charity Number 1002459). A contribution £1,950 plus VAT that helps to cover the costs of recruitment, off-the-job training, running of the scheme and support throughout the placement
• Encourage the student to enter the Year in Industry Contribution to the Business competition (open to all disciplines) which provides the company with positive publicity.
The Student agrees to:
• Observe the company's terms and conditions of employment
• Be self-motivated, a self-starter and display initiative
• Complete a personal development file
• Be appraised by their company
• Attend training organised by The Year in Industry
