Business Treks aimed at undergraduate finalists
Business Treks are a great opportunity to showcase your organisation’s culture, engage with our students and connect with them by immersing them in your office environment.
A typical trek will take place in an organisations based in London or South East England, in autumn or spring and should last around 90 minutes. We work with organisations across all industry sectors to mirror the breadth of our students' aspirations and from SMEs to multinationals.
The Trek may include an office tour, networking opportunities, a presentation of the sector and typical roles and duties, and/or a chance to meet current interns, placement students, graduates, or King’s alumni working in your organisation. Where possible, we also organise Treks which may involve two or three different organisations across a single day.
Our target cohort of students will be final year undergraduates from across our nine faculties who are exploring their career options by looking to gain an insight into different sectors. Our team will actively encourage and welcome students from traditionally under-represented communities in UK Higher Education to participate.
We provide a stipend to our students covering any transport costs and all Treks are supported by our dedicated Advisers who will support you to schedule, plan and develop your Trek, engage our audience and be available to attend on the day.
Previous Treks have included visits to British Airways, Expedia, Global Counsel, HMRC, The Hoffman Agency, Microsoft, Publicis, Revolut and Unilever.
Virtual Micro Internships aimed at undergraduate finalists
Our Virtual Micro Internships are hosted on the experiential learning platform Practera, where students work in groups on an industry-relevant project proposed by the employer for two weeks (25 hours) in spring and summer.
We will partner with employers and consultancies of any size and location interested in providing final year undergraduate students with a specific project. We will support students and employers before and throughout the project.
Our target cohort of students will be final year undergraduate students across our nine faculties who are exploring their career options by looking to gain an insight into different sectors. Our team will actively encourage and welcome students from traditionally under-represented communities in UK Higher Education to participate.
Work-shadowing aimed at undergraduate finalists
Employers will decide how many students they can host and will provide each student with a 1-day work-shadowing opportunity in April. The student will be role guided by one of your employees. This initiative is perfect for start-ups and SMEs.
You will work with identified final year undergraduate students across our nine faculties who are exploring their career options by looking to gain an insight into different sectors. Our team will actively encourage and welcome students from traditionally under-represented communities in UK Higher Education to participate.
We provide a stipend to our students to cover transport costs.
Work-shadowing aimed at doctoral researchers
We encourage our doctoral researchers (PhD candidates) to organise work-shadowing experience with our partner organisations.
You will work with identified students across our King's Doctoral College who are expanding their horizons outside academia by discovering corporate options in different sectors.
Work- shadowing for our doctoral researchers might be just one day - or a full week. You will discuss and organise the most suitable option directly with the researcher.
Virtual Consultancy Projects aimed at doctoral researchers
Our Virtual Consultancy Projects are hosted on the experiential learning platform Practera, where students work in groups on an industry-relevant project proposed by the employer for two weeks (25 hours) in summer or winter.
We will partner with employers and consultancies of any size and location interested in providing our doctoral researchers (PhD candidates) with a specific bespoke project. We will support students and employers before and throughout the project.
You'll work with identified doctoral researchers across our King's Doctoral College who are expanding their horizons outside academia by discovering corporate options in different sectors. Our team will actively encourage and welcome students from traditionally under-represented communities in UK Higher Education to participate.
Virtual Work Simulation aimed at all students
King's Careers and Employability have partnered with The Forage to provide custom, self-paced virtual experience programmes with leading global brands such as Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Linklaters, BCG and GE which are available to all King's students.
These virtual experience programmes are 2-10 hours each and offer our students a new way to boost their employability skills, gain critical work-ready skills, and experience what work is like at innovative and influential companies.
Additionally, students can enrol in self-paced courses:
Transform Society - UK Public Service Virtual Experience Programme (self-paced 2.5 hours), for students to discover the endless opportunities to give back and make a real difference in their local community; and
FutureLearn – Online courses from 2 to 10 weeks.