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1. Finding Internships and Work Experience

2. What will we cover?
• Eligibility
• What is an internship?
• Why do it?
• The schemes
• Doing it yourself
• Making contact
• How can we help?

3. Eligibility
Undergraduate (UG) Students
UG students are permitted to work full time outside of term times as they are not expected
to be studying during those periods.
In the final year, UG students are permitted to work full time at the end of the summer term,
for this academic year this is 13th June 2015 (www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/keydates/).
Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Students
Whilst registered, PGT students are not permitted to work full time at any point (including
during the normal ‘vacation’ periods) as they are expected to be in full time study.
The date on which PGT students officially complete their studies is as stated on your CAS
(for the current academic year this is 30 September 2015). After this date PGT students are
free to work full-time until the end date of their visa

4. What is an Internship?
• Summer or vacation internship
• Graduate internship

5. Internship schemes
- Different sectors, different
schemes
- Large corporations’ structured
internships
- Deadlines often Jan- March time
- Often for penultimate year
students, some for 1st years
- Some sectors may not offer
structured schemes

6. Why should you do it?
• Is it the right career choice?
• Establishing contacts
• Relevant work experience on your CV
• Gain up to date work reference
• Get a realistic view of what is involved
• Developing skills
• Apply skills and knowledge
• Get a job!

7. How to find opportunities
General internship websites include:
- www.topinternships.com – dedicated site
- www.prospects.ac.uk/workexperience
- www.targetjobs.co.uk – searchable database of summer internships
- www.ratemyplacement.co.uk- searchable database
Our jobs database:
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/search (search under vacation jobs
or graduate jobs)
Our Getting Experience sections:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/gettingexperience

8. Sector Specific Information- check
out our Sector Guides
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers

9. STEP Internships
• The Step Programme offers undergraduates and recent graduates a
range of work experience opportunities.
• These can be either short term work placements, generally lasting
between eight weeks and six months or longer term internships lasting
between six and 12 months.
• All Step opportunities have a genuine development focus, are
structured and often project based and importantly, are all paid.
• www.step.org.uk
step logo here

10. University funded Internships
• We are currently working in partnership with Santander Banking
Group to provide paid internships for University of Sussex students
and graduates in local small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
• Santander part finance these internships but they take place in local
companies
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Claire Braun (MA Media and Cultural Studies 2013) - Customer Marketing Associate,

11. Current summer/vacation internship
opportunities
Summer Vacation Scheme - Taylor Wessing
Summer Vacation Scheme - Simmons & Simmons)
Vacation Internship Programme 2015 (Audit) – KPMG
Summer Placements – Centrica
Summer Intern Programme - Lloyd's
Intern with an NGO in India this summer - Development in Action
Change Management Internship 2015 – Zurich
Technology and Operations Intern - Santander

12. Current Graduate internship
opportunities
Trafficking and Tagging Intern - Rakuten Attribution
Network Support Intern - Bspoke Global Networks
Video Editor Intern - Akwaaba Music
Communications Intern - Tesla Motors
Digital Marketing Intern – Charanga
Graduate Digital Marketing Assistant Intern - Qube

13. BUNAC
Intern in Britain
This programme gives students and recent graduates the opportunity to
work as an intern in the UK for up to 12 months, swapping from a tier 4,
to a tier 5 visa. Find out more at www.bunac.org/usa/ interninbritain
and call one of the team on 0333 999 7516.

14. How to apply
• Recruitment processes can include
CV or application form.
• Important to research the role and
the sector.
• Market yourself for that role.

15. Creative Approaches- finding
contacts
• Social contacts
• Academics
• Newspapers, journals, magazines,
• www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/research_
employers
• Yellow Pages (www.yell.com )
• Company directories/lists
• Linked in – growing in importance

16. Other opportunities
• Careers events (Make it Happen!)
• Insight days for law, accountancy etc
• Volunteering www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/volunteering
• Part time and summer work
• Student societies

17. Help available at Careers and
Employability
• Briefings
• Careers Advisers
• Advice
• Vacancies
• Events
• Join us on twitter or Facebook
• www.sussex.ac.uk/careers