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Employer Engagement

A2i Southwest Funded Internships

The Southwest Funded Internship Scheme helps eligible businesses in the southwest to hire 91天堂色情片 students by fully funding 80 hours of paid internship work.

Why hire an Exeter intern?

Exeter students bring real value to your business. They are:

  • Motivated to make a difference and eager to learn
  • Quick-thinking, adaptable, and able to work at pace
  • Equipped with up-to-date academic knowledge
  • Respectful, ambitious, and full of fresh ideas
  • Ready to contribute across a wide range of roles

Interns can support core functions such as administration, marketing, finance, HR, and customer service, or contribute to specialist areas including product development, engineering, sustainability, data analysis, software, heritage, legal, education, publishing, and more.

To register your interest in the Southwest Funded Internship Scheme, you can email A2i@exeter.ac.uk and the team will plan a call with you.

Alternatively, you can call 07866138564.  Phone lines are monitored 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday.

   

To be eligible for funding, organisations must be:

  • A UK-based Micro, SME, Not For Profit or registered Charity
  • Based in the southwest of England
  • Able to employ and pay an intern through your organisation's payroll system, they cannot be self-employed. For further information please visit and 

You must also have suitable liability insurance in place.

Employers can receive a maximum of two employer subsidies per academic year, across all A2i funding schemes.

The internship role must meet the following criteria:

  • Offer an hourly rate the meets the (non-London rate).
  • Last for a minimum of 80 hours.
  • Based within the UK, even if the role can be completed remotely.
  • Include tasks and responsibilities normally associated with an undergraduate level position, to support the student's skills development.

Interns can work in all areas of a business, including general business functions such as administration, finance, marketing and communication, human resources, and customer service. Or in more specialist or technical areas, such as supporting leaders with strategy, product development, engineering, software development, sustainability, data analysis, legal, languages, teaching and bioscience.

Student status

  • To undertake an internship, the applicant must be a current 91天堂色情片 student for the full duration of the internship.
  • Undergraduate students can work up to 15 hours per week during term-time and up to full-time hours during the holidays.
  • Postgraduate students can work up to 6 hours per week (sometimes more with permission from their academic).

Right to work

  • All students are legally required to provide you with their Right to Work in the UK.
  • Applicants should reside in the UK whilst undertaking the internship.
  • For more information please see the government guidance  

Applications

  • Students will apply using the Internship Application Form.
  • On average you can expect to receive 20+ quality applications.
  • We check all applications meet the scheme eligibility criteria and we'll let you know if anyone has declared a disability and require adjustments.
  • We send all the applications to you by email the day after applications close.

 Shortlisting

  • The employer shortlists the applications. You may wish to use our 
  • As the 91天堂色情片 is a ' organisation we ask that you interview all applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Inviting to Interview

We suggest inviting 5-6 candidates to interview.

The employer invites the shortlisted candidates to interview as soon as possible. We tell students to expect to hear if they have been shortlisted 5 days before the scheduled interview date. We recommend you call candidates to book an interview time and date and follow this up with a confirmation email. You may wish to use this Invitation to interview email.

When inviting your candidates to interview, please ask them to share the Right to Work evidence with you. To read more about this please see the Guidance to Verify Right to Work (RTW) Evidence for UoE Interns.

For the candidates not shortlised for interview, we ask you let them know as soon as possible by email. You may wish to use this Not Called To Interview Email. Alternatively the Internship Team can do this for you, if you send us the names of the rejected candidates.

Conducting the interview

  • Most interviews take place online but they can also happen over the phone or in-person.
  • Assess each candidate against the person specification published in the job advert. You may wish to use the Interview Scoring Grid for this purpose.
  • You may also wish to use these Interview Questions or these Strengths based interview questions.
  • You can include comptency-based tasks such as manipulating data in a spreadsheet, or a piece of writing.
  • Please inform the candidates of the outcome as soon as possible and provide feedback if you can. If this is not possible you may wish to use our standard email unsuccessful after interview.
  • Please check all interviewees' right to work (see below)

Right to work

Informing candidates about the outcome of their interview

  • At the end of the interview, let the candidates know when you will be in touch about the outcome of the interview. This should ideally take place within 3 days of the interview.
  • When you contact the successful candidate to offer them the job, please ask them to confirm they would like to accept the job and agree a start date. 
  • For the unsuccessful candidates, please offer feedback if you can. Students really benefit from constructive feedback which could help them in the future. If you thought they were appointable (just not the top candidate), please let them know!
  • For further information please view our Guidance on Informing Candidates of Interview Outcome.

References

  • It is at your discretion if you wish to take up references.  If you do, you may wish to use the ‌Reference Template.
  • Please ensure that any references not required after appointment, are destroyed or retained, as applicable, in accordance with GDPR.

Retaining Interview Evidence

We recommend you retain evidence of scoring and selection for all the candidates you have interviewed for 6 months, after which please destroy or delete.

Appointing your Intern

Once your chosen candidate has accepted the position, we will ask you to complete an appointment form.

You will need to issue the Contract of Employment and the Internships Team will issue an Internships Agreement and provide further guidance to you and your new intern.

Induction and Training

When your intern starts working for you, providing an induction will give you the opportunity to set clear objectives for the internship, and to review and evaluate the Intern's progress throughout. You are welcome to complete your own induction and performance indicators or you are welcome to use the resourced linked below:

Support

You should check in with your intern regularly, online or in-person. Agree timely check points that work for you both to talk through progress and provide feedback.

If you have any concerns and wish to speak to someone at the University, the Internships Team are available to offer information, advice and/or support throughout the internship. Email Internships@exeter.ac.uk or call 07866 138564

Your feedback is important. It helps us to monitor our customer service and learn about the impact the internship has had on your organisation and the student.

At the end of the internship, please complete the  and encourage your intern to complete their .

If you would like to read feedback from previous employers, take a look at our .

  • Employers must allow us to share details of the company, the selected intern and the internship with the funders, Employment Services.
  • All parties must agree to the A2I Terms and Conditions as outlined in the A2I Internship Agreement.
  • Employers can receive more than one subsidy, to a maximum of two subsidies per year across all/any A2I funding sources available.
  • Employers cannot combine or apply for more than one A2I subsidy; All Student, Santander or Widening Participation, for the same internship.
  • Employers are unable to apply for further funding to either extend an intern's contract or employ the same student or graduate once the internship has completed.
  • Employer subsidies will be paid upon the successful placement of an Exeter intern into the approved internship and once an A2I Internship Agreement has been signed and returned.

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