Work Placements

Combining work experience with study

Work placements can add real value to your qualification. This can help you gain an advantage in the graduate job market by developing valuable skills in areas like communication, time and project management, problem solving and team working.  

What is a 'sandwich' course?

You can choose to take a placement year and convert your degree to a 4-year sandwich degree with any of our full-time Single Honours awards by taking a year in industry between your second and final years.

You will be able to apply to spend your placement year at an organisation of your choice, anywhere in the UK. Worcester Business School  has strong links with local businesses and many of our students take up placements in the locality with a large number of well-known organisations.

Placement opportunities are available in all business sectors, including marketing, advertising, PR, HR, business management, finance, economics, programming and game design.

Examples of employers who have previously offered placements include IBM, Marks and Spencer, Intel, The House of Commons, NHS,Waitrose and many others.

Your work placement needs to be a minimum of 36 weeks excluding holidays. You should be working full-time whilst on placement.

Other ways to get work experience 

Many companies offer summer or other short-term placements. These can be an excellent way of building up a network of contacts and getting experience of exciting projects. Worcester Business School advertises short-term vacancies on its Blackboard site as well as the year-long placements. Visit our earn as you learn pages to find further details.

 

Get in touch

Placement support team

Placement support for Business degrees
Holly Andrews
h.andrews@worc.ac.uk

Placement support for Computing degrees
Richard Henson
r.henson@worc.ac.uk

General enquiries
Placement support office
v.lancey@worc.ac.uk