Business Placements
If you need to do a placement as part of your degree course, and you want to do it in retail, then we can help.
Every September, we offer a number of students the chance to spend 12 months with us. The majority of opportunities we offer are in stores. Here, you’ll get involved in everything from selling food and clothing to understanding management operations and HR practices. We also offer placements in HR, and in head office within our IT and Food Technology teams.
Wherever you’re based, you’ll start with a corporate induction programme followed by a variety of courses and on-the-job training. Then, after the 12-month placement is over, we’ll assess how you got on. If you’ve done well and shown that you possess the skills to succeed, we’ll invite you back to join the graduate scheme when you’ve completed your degree.
If you do choose to come back to us as part of the graduate scheme, you’ll be placed on a short programme especially for business placement returners, which usually lasts around three months. This will give you the chance to familiarise yourself with new procedures (and reacquaint yourself with old ones), so that you fit smoothly back into our working environment.
To our BPP Food Technologist we offer a six-month placement at head office. This will run from June to December, and you’ll be given the chance to experience a range of roles and responsibilities. After that, should you wish, we’ll help you to arrange a further 6-month placement with one of our suppliers.
The closing date for our Food Technologist placements is 31st October 2008 other roles will close on 11th December however due to the popularity of this scheme we would suggest that you apply as soon as possible.
We also have two business placements for design, one starting in September 2009, the other in April 2010, for which the salary is £19,500.
Our Business Placement Scheme has been recognised by the National Council for Work Experience as meeting the high standards of their Quality Mark.
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