Year in Business Speed Recruitment event

Last week a number of companies, both large and small, joined our Speed Recruitment event in the Business school at Royal Holloway. 2nd year business students had the opportunity to find out more about placements at companies including Aldi, BMW, Cancer Research, Canon, ECOVIS Wingrave Yeats, Enterprise Mobility, Honda, NHS Ashford St Peters, PiXL, Rouse Partners, RSM, Stanhope-Seta, SEO London. We are grateful to all the company representatives their time and for the students on placement who shared their experiences. It was a horrible wet evening outside, but a great buzz and engagement inside the Moore foyer.

The Executive Dean of the School, Professor Christos Tsinopoulos introduced the evening and chatted to students and employers alike. 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 numerous positions including Accountancy/ Finance, Business support, HR, Management trainee, Marketing, Sales. They could also speak to a representative from Careers as well as a Student Union Representative discussing the option of a Sabbatical position as a placement.

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 welcome back recent Graduate Matthew Lappin who joined the RSM table – Matthew completed a successful tax placement at RSM during his Royal Holloway Accounting degree and returned to the company last Autumn.

Final year YIB Mentor Akshita was offered a Campus Ambassador position during her Final year after a successful placement, She joined recruiter Paul Hanrahan and the Enterprise Mobility table to talk to YIBs about the 2025/26 openings.

The Ecovis Marketing manager was joined by both the current and previous placement students, Madeleine Stonehouse and Grace Ashton.

We were also delighted to be joined by other current students:  Vivienne Luu (marketing placement at Canon), Penny Kaur (merchandising placement student at Cancer Research), Snigdhorup Rudra (Business placement at Honda), Tahir Wadud (HR placement at NHS), Maaz Raja (Business placement at SEO London), Damini Naguindra and Ileana Taylor- Burns (former and future placement students at BMW), Patricia Mara ( former Event/ Customer Service placement student at PiXL)

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 2025. 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/