Graduate Placements
Shell Step & Graduate Talent Pool
Shell Step is the UK's leading national project-based work placement programme which matches students with local businesses and organisations.
Pennine Lancashire Enterprise Trust has delivered the Shell Step programme for over 20 years and has a skilled team on hand to assist you with your short term recruitment needs.
Recent developments have led to Shell STEP joining forces with the Government's new Graduate Talent Pool initative to offer the same benefits as Shell STEP to recent graduates.
Students & Graduates
Want to do something different this summer?
How about getting valuable work experience, completing a real business project in your local area, improving your employability skills and getting paid all at the same time?
Every year, Pennine Lancashire Enterprise Trust gives ambitious second and penultimate year undergraduates and recent graduates the chance to:
- Work within innovative small and medium-sized companies to carry out projects that require your skills, talent and enthusiasm
- Work on a project that may be relevant to your future career choices
- Be part of a team and develop your skills whilst also learning new ones
- Work on a variety of tasks including setting up IT and accountancy systems including creating databases, designing and implementing websites, devising marketing plans, carrying out market research, creating new business processes and procedures, analysing production methods, researching and designing new product concepts and much more
- Gain the skills, confidence and experience that will make a real difference to your career prospects and enhance your CV
- Get paid each week without paying tax or national contributions
- The projects run for around 8 weeks between June and September
- You may also have the chance to participate in the Shell Step competition
Pennine Lancashire Enterprise Trust provides opportunities across Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester and the Isle of Man - other placements are available across the country. Register and apply for the Shell Step programme
What students & graduates say
"Shell STEP was everything I didn't expect in the best of ways! You get so involved in company life that you completely lose your student label and just become one of the team. It's a fantastic way of getting out of lecture theatres and into the real world and it gives you the chance to really push yourself in new and exciting directions."
Katie Selby, University of Manchester
Businesses & Organisations
Every year, Shell Step students and graduates take on live business projects for small and medium-sized companies throughout the local area and achieve outstanding results. Pennine Lancashire Enterprise delivers this programme across Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester and the Isle of Man.
In fact, Shell Step brings a whole range of business benefits to˙companies like yours, utilising the skills of local undergraduates and recent graduates who study at universities across the UK. It gives you the opportunity to:
- Identify any issues you are facing and turn them into a definable and structured project
- Have a student or graduate to tackle this project, giving you a dedicated resource with a fresh perspective and objective view
- Research and develop a new product or new market area
- Provide your business with up-to?date IT & technical skills
- Design/re-develop your website and its functionality
- Create new literature/brand/image etc
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Streamline your processes and deliver benefits throughout the organisation
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Have someone with a fresh approach and boundless enthusiasm; join your team for the summer period, typically around 8 weeks between June and September.
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Participate in the Shell Step competition
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The list is endless ? if you have a possible project contact us in the first instance
There is a cost to participate in Shell Step, but one of the big advantages of the programme is that as an employer you won't put the student onto your normal payroll. Part of the service provided by Pennine Lancashire Enterprise is to process the student's weekly allowance on your behalf. This in turn means you won't have any additional administration costs or employer's NI contributions to pay. To be among the dynamic and progressive companies involved in the UK's leading project-based work placement programme, register here.
If you prefer to speak to one of our team before making an application please contact us on 01282-877300 for an initial chat.
What employers say
"Victoria's work on images and content used in advertising and the web raised us up to the next level. We are now number one in our field on the web, and this has without question been instrumental in our success over the last 6 months."
Mark Woodward, Sales Director, The Paper Cup Company, Lancashire