IAESTE International Work Experience Placements: opportunities now open for Summer 2016

For UK students, IAESTE provides salaried, course-related, global work experience opportunities for science, engineering, technology, applied arts, business and finance undergraduates for both short and long term periods (6-52 weeks) in their specialised field, up-skilling UK undergraduates for work in a global economy and sharing research perspectives worldwide.

With the opportunity to undertake a work placement in over 90 countries, as well as gaining increased academic confidence and higher academic goals, students will also make new friends from across the world and have the adventure of a lifetime on an IAESTE placement.

For UK HEIs, IAESTE provides highly motivated and talented undergraduate students who bring the latest technical training and fresh innovative perspectives from 90 countries and over 1000 universities worldwide. Each placement lasts a minimum of 6 weeks, but can last for a whole year depending on your requirements. With over 65 years’ experience, IAESTE is a tailor made, employer-led programme, meaning trainees are selected according to your specific requirements and criteria.

Trainees are ideally placed to:

• help develop new business opportunities,

• carry out short term projects,

• plug staffing and skill gaps

• assist in your export or expansion strategies overseas,

• build and develop contacts and cultural links

Hosting an IAESTE trainee is easy - IAESTE UK takes care of visas and work permits. The only cost to you is the trainee’s salary, which must adhere to the minimum wage. By hosting a trainee, you are also developing home grown talent. We operate on a reciprocal basis. Your offer of a placement for an international student enables a UK student to avail of a work placement overseas.

 UK students must be:

·         a UK resident*

·         over the age of 19

·         a full time undergraduate student studying in a subject area covered by the IAESTE programme

·         in the second year of study or above

·         enrolled in a UK university

* You are considered a UK resident if you are:

·         an EEA national or a non-EU national with British Citizenship verification

For HEIs a placement offer must:

·         be between six and 52 weeks

·         pay a salary of at least the national minimum wage (£6.70 net per hour as of 1 October 2015)

be in a subject area covered by the IAESTE programme