• It looks great on a CV
• It allows poor students to earn money during holidays
• It it possible to get a permanent job after graduation with the same company
• Leicester's physics course gives credit for graduate-level work experience - meaning less work during term time.

Useful Links

Work Experience in Leicester

SURE

The department runs the Science Undergraduate Research Experience programme during the summer months in order to give undergraduates a feeling of what postgraduate research is all about.

National Space Centre

The NSC often has Leicester physics students working there, both full-time over the summers and part time during the unversity terms. This not only provides much needed cash, but provides valuable work experience for the students involved.

Specific Work Experience Sites

• Project Phoenics

Project Phoenics has been set up to help students find summer employment. The website has contact details for STEP and 'A Year in Industry', two leading providers of work-based projects.

• National Centre for Work Experience

"Aiming to promote, support and develop quality work experience for the benefit of students, organisations and the economy." Site includes links to companies that support work experience students and details of events happening around the country.

General Job Sites With Useful Information

• Milkround on-line

A graduate recruitment site that has a function in graduate opportunities allowing searches for temporary/vacation work in career areas (including Engineering & Science/Research)

• Barzone
The barzone has details of companies that take on people for short-term placements. As the title suggests all the companies are in the pub & bar industry. There are placements in Human Resources, IT and other support departments.
• Gradunet

Has a work placement section.

• British Trust Conservation Volunteers

If you are feeling green, help out for a summer.

• Job Surfing (University of Exeter site)

A good site that allows you to search for holiday jobs in the South West or Nationally.

• North West Student and Graduates Online

If you are looking for jobs in the North West try here, otherwise don't bother.

• Top Jobs

A general recruitment site with a graduate section but no specific work experience information.