WORK EXPERIENCE
The Year in Industry Scheme
The Year in Industry is a national scheme that places bright, motivated students with companies for paid, 12-month, degree relevant work placements in the gap year before or during their degree course. students are carefully matched with companies on the basis of their chosen degree course - often engineering, science, IT or business.
It’s a great opportunity for students to earn a real salary (typically £8000 - £12000 p.a.) while gaining the right skills and experience to help them in their degree course and following career. It’s also a unique opportunity to increase sponsorship opportunities, with around a quarter of all students receiving some form of financial support through university.
Do you want to?
- Achieve satisfaction from personally managing an important project?
- Gain hands-on experience in a field which really interests you?
- Extend your skills and develop new ones?
- Broaden your horizons and enhance your earning ability?
- Combine quality work experience with travel?
- Enjoy some real, paid, work experience?
In brief
Qualities: you are a self-starter, who shows initiative, enthusiasm and belief that you can help to improve the way things are done.
Requirements: you expect good A levels, Highers or equivalent, intend to go to university, are IT literate and legally entitled to work in the UK.
Jobs: mostly in engineering, science, computing but also in business, including personnel, marketing, business planning and other non-technical fields.
What happens next
Once you’ve registered, a number of things will happen:
- You will be contacted by your local Year in Industry centre to arrange an interview. This gives us an opportunity to find out about you and is your chance to ask questions too.
- Following a successful Year in Industry interview, you will be included on our database and your details will be circulated to companies involved.
- You may be invited to a recruitment fair - a chance to make company contacts and see what is available. Alternatively, you may be asked directly to attend a company interview.
- If your company interview is successful, a job offer will be made and a decision on whether to accept must be made.
- If you accept a job, it will usually start in the autumn and finish the following summer - in time to take up a deferred university place.
- Invariably, universities encourage industrial experience, but you must let the admissions tutor know your plans in good time.
For more information visit the website, www.yini.org.uk
