The purpose of the ProspectSoft placement scheme is to both utilise their ways of thinking and add drive to the business as well as finding the best undergraduates to return as full time members of staff after their final year at university. ProspectSoft have a clear precedent of offering permanent roles for exceptional placement employees, in fact, over 55% of the current workforce consist of current or past placement students.

Steps to implementation

The ProspectSoft placement scheme is implemented with a structured plan to ensure consistency each year and that the top universities have successfully advertised our positions, to ensure maximum applicants.

• Providing internships is ProspectSoft’s primary recruitment strategy, which enables us to recruit the highest caliber of full-time staff knowing they have already completed a 12 month job interview.
• Recruitment of students who are enthusiastic, eager to learn, with a strong academic background and have a thirst for knowledge adds value to the ProspectSoft team.
• Providing students with a diverse and challenging environment in which to develop their skills, provides a win-win situation for both the student and the company.

• The ProspectSoft placement scheme has delivered year in, year out and each time we receive an increasing number of high quality applicants.
• There is a clear precedent of permanent recruitment for exceptional placement employees after graduation, so much so that 60% of middle management currently consists of former placement students.

Testimonials submitted by past placement enable reflection on their experiences and have clearly encouraged more encouragement from applicants.

• A regularly updated placement blog enables prospective placement students to gain an understanding of the tasks students get up to on a daily basis.
• A familiarisation day before their contract starts enables engagement between placement students before they begin.
• Placement students have thirteen month contracts rather than twelve, to enable them to gain a more thorough understanding of the company and its products before starting by working with the previous placement students.
• Continual assessment via appraisal and competency certificates encourages development and motivation of students and compliments students academic assessment progress.