Step and Social Mobility
Set up in the late 1980s by Shell, the original Step programme existed to provide paid summer placements for STEM students in smaller businesses. Originally supported by government and granted both business funding and skills-based funding, a network of partners (including universities and business links) administered the programme. Students applied to be a part of…
What constitutes a graduate role?
‘Graduates won’t want to come and work for us, and we don’t have the time to train them’ These are a couple of common misconceptions that we come across regularly here at Step, mainly when speaking with some of the smaller sized businesses who have yet to buy into the many benefits that hiring a…
The death of the cover letter, and other such recruitment clichés…
I read a blog recently written by a graduate recruitment specialist which I found so unhelpful that I feel the need to counter it. In this article, recruiters of entry level talent were told that the cover letter is dead and that it is time to start getting smarter about recruitment. We were told that…
Higher level skills – the 2017 Masters cohort.
September and October may well mark the start of the academic year cycle but for Masters students, who are just completing their degrees, Autumn signals the start of their graduate job search. For businesses who may be feeling they missed the flux of new graduates back in June and July, Masters students who are now…
Management Buyout at Step – the Student and Graduate Internship People
In November 2017 I became the owner of Step, after working here for the last five years of my twenty year recruitment career. It was a very proud moment for me, in the past five years I’ve developed a passion for the work we do at Step. Helping smaller businesses connect with talented students and…
Tackling the problems head-on – Internship Case Study
Anastasia is an Anthropology student at Durham University. Over the summer she completed a Market Research Internship with a leading provider of technical training and consultancy services to a range of industries. Anastasia was tasked with completing a research project which aimed to provide more insight into how various target-audience companies were approaching training. This…
Facts and Figures from the House of Commons BAME Internship programme
After a long and very competitive application and interview process, the recruitment has been completed on the House of Commons 12-month internship programme and we’re delighted to announce that three students have successfully been appointed, with start dates targeted for November. The aim of the programme was to provide work experience, employability support and guidance to…
What students and new graduates can do for you.
A question we are often asked here at Step is “what can students and graduates actually do?” It’s a good question as it’s not always apparent from their actual course of study. Many of our internships have completed valuable and substantial projects; below are just some examples showing the breadth and diversity of what Step…