Graduate Business Engagement Programme
Graduate Surveyors Training Employment Programme (GSTEP)
Length of placement: 6 months
Employers Financial Contribution:
50% National Minimum Wage / maximum of 40 hours per week
Number of placements available: 26
Description:
The RAC has received funding to support firms who take on a RAC graduate surveyor for a six month placement for rural, commercial, planning and development or residential work, etc. The scheme will support graduates who have yet to complete their professional qualification. It is open to applications in respect of graduates who have lost their jobs, perhaps part way through qualification.
Sector: Real Estate/Property market
Graduate Internship Programme (GIP)
Length of placement: 6 months
Employers Financial Contribution:
50% National Minimum Wage / maximum of 40 hours per week
Number of placements available: 26
Description:
The scheme supports rural and agricultural businesses and service providers to fight against the recession through offering graduate internships. Organisations who take on a graduate for a 6 month work placement will receive a subsidy to contribute towards the minimum national wage rate. The scheme will support RAC graduates who have graduated this year or post graduates finishing this year.
Graduate Internship
Length of placement: 2 months (8 weeks)
Employers Financial Contribution:
100% National Minimum Wage / maximum of 30 hours per week
Number of placements available: 50
Description:
The scheme will provide a useful and productive experience for both the graduate and the employer. The employer could devise existing or new short term projects to be researched by an intern and could also provide useful support with specific tasks .
Sectors
- low-carbon products and services
- life sciences and pharmaceuticals
- advanced manufacturing
- professional and financial services
- Engineering construction industrial
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
Length of placement:
- Classic 1 - 3 years
- Short 10-40 weeks
Employers Financial Contribution:
- Classic KTP around £20,000per year
- Short KTP around £1,000 per week
Number of placements available: N/A
Description:
A KTP involves the formation of a partnership between your business (the business partner) and an academic institute (knowledge base partner), enabling you to access skills and expertise to help your company develop. The partnership also involves one or more recently qualified persons (Associates) to facilitate this transfer of knowledge. The Associate works within your company on a project central to your needs.
GSTEP Case Study
The GSTEP Scheme has been extremely helpful in helping me find a position within the industry."Daniel Wood
Stags, recruited a GSTEP placement in July 2009. Daniel Woods, RAC graduate was offered the position based at the firms Dartmouth office in Devon.
Daniel's main role is applicant management, this involves advising customers on properties that meet their individual requirements. He is responsible for creating adverts for the various properties on the market then submitting them to be put in local papers. He markets Stags to potential customers to try and gain valuations and instructions.
Once he has gained instructions he is involved in getting the property on to the market, by creating brochures and information packs.
Case Study
Gillian HigginsIt has been a fantastic experience. It made me realise all the support I have received from the College. "
Horses Inside Out Ltd is a young company set up by a former student of the Royal Agricultural College, Gillian Higgins. The company offers equine lecture demonstrations plus equine and human massage and manipulation sessions, aimed at improving the performance of horses and riders, while reducing the risk of injury.
The services are based on a thorough understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics and physiology of horses and humans.
With help and encouragement from the Business Development Centre at the Royal Agricultural College, Gillian entered her business in the Knowledge West Enterprise Awards competition. These awards recognise and reward the best business ideas and new enterprises by students, staff and alumni from the annual business plan competitions of the six Higher Education Institute (HEI) partners within Knowledge West.
Staff in the college's School of Business helped Gillian to develop a first class business plan which enabled her to present her business case in a thoroughly professional manner to the judges of the competition. She won the category for "The Best Alumni Business Plan" and received a cheque for £7500.
The Business Development Centre has provided further services to the business in the form of entrepreneurial training for the Marketing Director and other Horses Inside Out team members who attended a course run by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship. Several college staff continue to provide Gillian with mentoring and encouragement; her achievements are recognised as outstanding and a wonderful example to other students of how to develop their business ideas.
For more information please contact the Business Development Centre on; Tel: (01285) 889872 or email: gstep@rac.ac.uk
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