The benefits of placements - what do employers say?

We are very fortunate that 2 of our local placement providers, SAP and Ascot Wealth Management,  have taken part in our video profiles to talk about placements and the benefits they can offer to students looking to undertake a year out in industry.

Firstly I talked to Lindsey Rowe who is Chief of Staff/ Head of People & Programmes Office at Feltham based SAP, the world's leading cloud business software company. Lindsey is passionate about promoting such a programme with University students saying "I am privileged to work with absolutely outstanding students at the very start of their careers".

Lindsey talks about the benefits of the placement programme for the both students and a company like SAP and gives students concrete ideas of what they should do if interested in working for a company like SAP. Listen here to Lindsey talk:

http://yibprofile.blogspot.com/2019/07/sap-employer-guidance-on-placements.html


A number of Royal Holloway Management students have undertaken placements with SAP in the past and 2 of our current YIBs, Adam and Michael are currently on placement with the company, one working in Role Ops and the other in the Account Management team.

Former RH placement students, Hannah, Catherine and Andrea

I was also thrilled to conduct an interview at local SME, Ascot Wealth Management, a company that has also recruited a number of our students over recent years. Catriona McCarron, Wealth Manager, also shared valuable tips with prospective applicants and was joined in the interview by her current placement student, RH Management student Connor Griffiths. Listen here for more insights: http://yibprofile.blogspot.com/2019/07/ascot-wealth-management-placement.html

Former RH placement students, Ropa and Alvaro

current RH placement student, Hannah