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Run internships effortlessly.
We find, train, and support your interns in order to create exceptional experiences, and relationships that turn into hires.
How does it work?
step one: onboarding call (30 mins)
Setting expectations
- One of the most common causes of internship breakdowns is clarity and transparency around what you want. So before getting started, it’s important to establish the tasks, responsibilities and expectations your interns will be working towards. We recommend drafting these ahead of time.
step two: search & interview (2 weeks)
Attitude > Aptitude
- Once expectations have been set, we push out the opportunity to our audience of over 40,000 students who are matched with roles according to skills, studies, prior experience and interests. Final candidates are always selected for their attitude and must demonstrate exceptional drive, motivation, and desire to learn.
step three: pre-internship training (2-4 weeks)
Creating killer first impressions
- Once you’ve selected your interns, we begin preparing them to hit the ground running. 4 weeks of training commences, with 50% focussed on the tasks and responsibilities you’ll be assigning, and 50% on work readiness – diary org, effective comms, dealing with clients, writing emails, software best practise and much more.
Internships, re-imagined.
Everyone likes the idea of taking interns – it’s great for ESG / CSR in your local community, they’re an excellent source of new ideas and insight, and can often be a valuable resource for your business.
But in reality, this comes at a cost. On-boarding and training time, active management time, and costly remuneration with no guarantee of output or quality – it all adds up.
The Grad Soc removes these barriers and makes it easy for you to gain all the benefits with a fraction of the costs – increasing efficiency and output for both company and interns.
Yesterday’s internships
- 1 intern joins full-time for 2 months over the summer (high competion for talent)
- Remuneration cost (min wage) = £3,200
- Ave. 25% of time spent being trained: Cost of training = 80 hr of intern’s time + 80 hr of staff time
- Ave. 60% of intern’s time utilised = 40% wasted cost
- Unclear on duties you can give to / trust your interns with
- Hours of active management required
- No clear structure
- Lack of flexibility for company and interns
- No guaranteed output or quality of work
The Future of internships
with The Grad Soc
- Fraction of the cost @ £735/mo
- We help you deliver on diversity: 90% of interns from minority ethnic backgrounds or young women trying to break into digital
- Highest quality interns: 86% of clients choose to continue working with their interns afterwards
- 6 month flexible contract, 10 – 40 hours per week (can be scaled up or down at any point)
- Remuneration (above living and real wage) included within our fee and payroll automated by us
- Remote-first to maximise your talent pool and increase accessibility
- Part-time to increase participation throughout the year and reduce competition for talent
- HR included within our service – working contracts taken care of
- Supports ESG / CSR goals by receiving our official accreditation as an Equal Opportunity Provider
- Includes first class CPD accredited training incorporated 4 weeks before starting with your team, and then continuously throughout each internship
- Integrated early talent programs available for large Enterprise clients wanting to feed their existing graduate programmes
Build-your-own Internship
You define the time, length, type & output. We’ll do the rest.
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Maximise your ESG/CSR impact.
We have a particular focus on young women and minority ethnic groups wanting to break into their chosen industry, with these students representing over 90% of all interns we’ve worked with to date.
Companies who take part can expect to reach over 250,000 people through CSR exposure with our audience, university/local partners and regular PR, alongside an ‘Equal Opportunity Provider’ accreditation that we award you afterwards, backed by innovate UK.
In addition, we’re CPD accredited, which means our training and coaching programmes have reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards, and the learning value is constantly scrutinised to ensure integrity and quality.
The ultimate way to find your next hire.
We’re a mission-led startup, striving to create new opportunities for the students that really need them, but the real measure of success comes in the form of turning these internships into further work.
To date we’re incredibly proud of the 86% of clients who have chosen to continue working with their interns after their initial internship period.
Don’t just take our word for it.
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Before accepting a place on any of our internships, please read our Terms & Conditions.