Year In Industry (YINI)
Year In Industry (YINI) is a leading provider of UK-based work placements that specialises in providing talented young people with high-quality paid placements in all areas of engineering, science, computing and business.
Each year, thousands of young people apply to the scheme, searching for challenging work experience in a year out before or during their degree course.
YINI can help you to attract the best young people into your company, enabling you cost-effective access to enthusiastic, hard working young people who are serious about their careers and keen to get ahead. These short-term contracts also give you the flexibility you need.
Benefits for your company:
- Access to talented and dedicated students to drive your business forward
- An extra person in your team just when you need it
- The opportunity to tackle short projects effectively for yourself and your clients
- The ability to tackle emerging issues such as environmental audits
- A way to tackle existing problems that you don't have time to address
- The opportunity to enhance the UK's future workforce
Why not think of it as a 12-month interview, selecting the graduates you want to employ at this early stage?
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 and 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 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 of £1,895 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.
For more information and to get involved, visit the YINI website: www.yini.org.uk
