Excellent! That is a perfect example of how your organisation could experience the benefits of a placement student. Placement students can work in many different departments of an organisation, ranging from HR and Finance to more practical areas such as Environmental Health or Packaging Design – the list is endless!

This is where SES excels! We can sort this problem out for you, as we can employ the placement student on your behalf, so they are on our payroll and have an employment contract with SES that is based on your terms and conditions. We can also invoice the budget of your choice, which enables you to fund the student as a project, within your marketing budget for example.

This is where SES can help. All that we need from you is a full job specification and your company logo. We will then advertise the placement on our website, directing students to a bespoke online application form. We mark all applications received based on your criteria and provide you with a high quality shortlist to interview. As an example, we tend to receive on average 100 applications per placement opportunity, so working with SES saves you a lot of time and effort!

At SES we have over 15 years experience in employing students on behalf of other organisations. We can advise on typical salary levels, although the final decision is yours, and can then take over the whole employment process for you, meaning the student has a fixed term contract of employment with SES, and we deal with all of their pay, tax and NI. Students are offered the chance to join the SES stakeholder pension scheme and SES also has Employer’s Liability Insurance that covers all of our student employees.

No – SES create bespoke placement solutions for organisations. Our recruitment and employment services are separate, although many of our clients take full advantage of the combined package.

If you decide to take advantage of our contacts at all Universities throughout the UK, we will advertise your vacancy to the relevant courses, directing students to an online application form. We mark all applicants received, based on your criteria, and produce a shortlist of 4-6 students per vacancy for you to interview.

We can also employ placement students on your behalf. This is a service a lot of our clients take advantage of because of the benefits of:

• no addition to your organisation's headcount
• overcoming budget constraints as we will invoice the budget of your choice enabling you to fund the student as a project
• we take care of all the admin and payroll freeing up your time to reap the benefits of working with the student
• we have 15 years experience so we are always on the end of the phone to answer any questions you or the student may have
• we will take care of the contract of employment that is based on your terms and conditions

No, not at all. We can work with any organisation or university in the UK. In fact, although we are based in Sheffield, we have only a handful of clients in Sheffield, with the great majority being based elsewhere in the UK. We have strong links with universities from all corners of the UK.

Don’t worry – this is why SES exists! As a company we have been specialising in arranging bespoke placement solutions for university students for over 15 years – it’s what we do year in, year out. Our success is founded on us taking away the pressure of setting up placement programmes. As we are a private company, we do charge for our service, and once you let us know your requirements we can propose a package for you that we hope will be attractive, and commercially viable for you.

No, although many other recruitment companies make an ‘introduction charge’, you are free to employ the student once they graduate, with no fee charged by SES. The SES service allows you to test drive the graduates of the future, benefiting from enthusiastic students and the most up to date knowledge.