Work placements boost employment prospects for graduates

The High Fliers study of the graduate market in 2015 predicts that recruitment will be at its highest for a decade, but around a third of jobs will be offered to graduates who have done a work placement at the firm. More than four-fifths of the UK's leading graduate recruiters now offer paid work-experience programmes for students and recent graduates, with 13,049 available this year. Two-thirds have paid internships during the holidays for final-year students, while half make industrial placements available as part of degree courses. Half the employers said that students with no work experience have "little or no chance" of receiving a job offer through graduate programmes.