Speed Recruitment event - Royal Holloway Year in Business programme

Last week a number of companies joined our Speed Recruitment event in the Business school at Royal Holloway. I would like to express a huge thank you to the representatives from ACF Technologies, Barons Pub Company, ECOVIS Wingrave Yeats, Enterprise Mobility, Hays, Liberty Global, Menzies LLP, Moore Kingston Smith, NHS, RSM, Simmons & Simmons, Teachitright, Virgin Media O2, Wiser Academy, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, for taking the time to speak to our students about the placement opportunities available at their companies. 

The Executive Dean of the School, Professor Christos Tsinopoulos introduced the evening and chatted to students and employers alike. There was a real buzz in the Moore building throughout the evening.

Students had the opportunity to move around company stands (ideally when the bell rang) and talk to different companies about the range of placements available and see if there was a suitable match. Students heard about a range of positions including Accountancy/ Finance, Business support, Management trainee, Marketing, Recruitment, Sales.

It was good to see the 2^nd year students' enthusiasm to secure a placement and the companies gave positive feedback about the students’ engagement levels and the quality of the questions asked

It was particularly pleasing to see Lily Burke and Priyanka Visana who completed successful placements with Enterprise Mobility last year, join Paul Hanrahan, the Talent Acquisition manager, to talk about the openings at Enterprise. Finalist Matthew Lappin, who completed a tax placement at RSM and will join the company on Graduation joined the RSM table. Current students, Madeleine Stonehouse (marketing placement at Ecovis), Sofiia Tregub (Learning & Development placement at Wyndham hotels) and Dillon McEvilly (HR placement at NHS) joined their managers to talk about their placement experiences and openings in the year ahead. Damini Naguindra, on placement at BMW and Louella Cook, on placement at Commscope, spoke about their experiences. A massive thank you also to final year YIBs Maria, Azhar, Aman and Hannah for taking time out to inspire the younger year YIBs.

The evening concluded with pizza and more conversation. In previous years, a number of our students went onto secure placements on the back of attending similar events. We look forward to hearing how they get on this year!     

If any other companies are interested in advertising placements to our business students please contact MN-YIB@rhul.ac.uk. Students undertake paid placements of between 9 – 12 months and are available to start work anytime between June – September. There is more information about our programme on our website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/business-and-management/your-future-career/placements/