Planer Limited extends contract of top performing engineering student after successful placement
Planer Limited extends contract of top performing engineering student after successful placement Planer Limited is an engineering company located in Sunbury-On-Thames, Middlesex, that helps hospitals, research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and the IVF industry with the safe storage and preservation of medical and biological specimens. The Step Team spotted a job advert for a Production Technician…
Three Employee Rights that directly affect Students and Graduates
Three Employee Rights that directly affect Students and Graduates Leaving the *comfort* of your university digs and entering the big wide world of work for the very first time can be a difficult and scary transition to make. As you switch out mid-week lie-ins for mid-morning meetings, there is so much new information and knowledge…
MANAK Solicitors
9 Reasons why Graduates get Rejected and How to Deal with Them
So you’ve been through 5 stages of interviews yet you still get the call “I’m sorry but you were unsuccessful this time”. While we all know that this is demoralising and hurts, the most important thing to remember is that each interview allows you more chance to practice, and is always a learning curve. This…
How to get a Job without a Degree
Students go to university for a variety of reasons. Some want to make more friends and expand their circles. Some want to make their parents happy, and some want to experience what living away from home feels like for the first time. These are all valid responses – but they are not exactly true. Ultimately…
Tim Sekundyak
What Opportunities Can Placements Provide?
During my time at university, apart from the ABBA tribute nights, the work experience I gained proved most beneficial. I left the gleaming lights of Leeds in search of placements and ultimately, a graduate job. I joined the fabulous Step Recruitment team for my placement year and gained invaluable insight into the world of work…
How perseverance helped a Masters Student secure an Industrial Placement
Who is Bharat? Bharat Yadav completed a Masters’ in mechanical and Manufacturing with Industrial Practice at the University of Greenwich. He already had a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. He successfully secured a placement as a Student Proposals Engineer at Wozair Limited in October 2021. Wozair are HVAC specialist…
Changing your Graduate Career: From Lab to Office – Hira
Hira is a 2016 Chemistry Graduate from the University of Huddersfield. In December 2016 she started in a new graduate role as a Data Analysis and IT Consultant with a world leading consultancy operating in the chemicals sector. In this blog, Hira tells us about the first few months as a Data Analysis and IT…
Hira
Does Tutoring Count as Work Experience? – Step
Whether you’ve been living in a massive city such as London or a small town in Scotland, we can almost guarantee that you’ve heard of the term private tutoring before. Personal tuition conducted by a qualified instructor has become increasing popular in the last decade and many persons have decided to either hire a private…
Nick - Superorf
How Volunteering Can Boost Your Undergraduate Placement Search
Being a student during COVID-19 has been difficult. Remote learning as well as lack of social interaction has affected many students’ ability to learn and gain university classroom experience. Having been in my second year of university and studying on the BA Marketing Sandwich course, I was pushed by my tutors and university employment…
The Five Ps to Securing a Work Placement
As an undergraduate studying History at the University of Leeds, I was one of the many students unsure as to whether to take a year out in industry and I struggled to secure a work placement when my search began. Many questioned how practical a humanities degree could be in real life industries and I…