Advice on work placements
Stand out from the crowd with an NTU work placement
Many of our undergraduate and some of our postgraduate courses offer a great opportunity for you to do a one-year paid work placement. Sometimes we call these courses 'sandwich courses' as the placement year happens in the middle of your studies, between the start and the final year of your course. A work placement guarantees that you will:
- Learn more about organisations.
- Improve your employability and prepare for professional life.
- Improve and develop your skills and knowledge that employers look for including team work, communication, problem solving and confidence.
- Test out your career options – you may find you don't want to work in that area after all and change direction.
- Make contacts and get a relevant work related reference.
- Build professional recognition within your field.
- Improve your final year performance.
- Stand out from others in the crowd with a really impressive CV.
| Course | Job title | Company | Approximate salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA (Hons) International Business | Purchasing Assistant | L'Oreal, London | £18,000 |
| BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design | Junior Designer | PMC Associates Ltd, Hong Kong | £17,000 |
| BA (Hons) Furniture Product Design | Junior Designer | Nestlé | £10,000 |
| MSc Engineering (Electronics) | Software trainee | Schlumberger | £30,000 |
| BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design | Junior Interior Architect | Dalziel and Pow, London | £15,000 |
| MSc Engineering Management | Cost benchmarking and budget setting | Nissan, Leicester | £12,800 |
Advice on finding a work placement
- Visit the placement team for your course as soon as you arrive at NTU and take along some ideas or a list of possible companies. A work placement is not guaranteed and finding a work placement is your responsibility; the placement teams will support and work with you to find your ideal placement.
- Attend any training sessions on applying for a job and interview practice offered by the placement team and the Students' Union. Applying for placements is always a challenge and hard work, but it's a great way to experience what applying for a job is really like and it's definitely worth it. If you don't succeed the first time, try again. Every interview is excellent practice.
- Start writing your CV. The placement team can help with this so that it is written in a style that is familiar to UK employers.
- Practise your English as much as you can; go to any In-sessional English sessions that are on offer to you; try to speak up in class and work hard on your presentations.
Get started
- Check to see if the course you are interested in has a placement.
- Placement teams contact information.
- Postgraduate placement opportunities.







