Recruiting Students

Employer Handshake vacancy promotion service reaches over 70,000 University of Salford students and graduates.

Opportunities that can be promoted include: 

• Part-time job vacancies
• Graduate vacancies
• Vacation period work (Christmas/Easter/Summer holidays)
• Year-long Industrial Placements
• Summer Placements
• Volunteering opportunities

Create an employer account or log in - Find out how to create an employer account.

Read our policy for more information on the type of employers, vacancies and information that can be promoted, and information on employing international students.

All our fairs offer you the opportunity to start a recruitment journey with us, and to promote your graduate roles and internships to our high calibre candidates. Engaging with representatives from the world of work inspires our students and provides them with insight and inspiration to help them develop their career ambitions.

For more information on how to engage with University of Salford students and graduates, please contact the Employer Liaison team business@salford.ac.uk.

CAREERS FAIRS 2023/2024

Careers fairs play an important role in highlighting a whole range of employment opportunities as well as providing that all important direct link to employers that are offering employment and seeking graduates. We are currently planning for our 2023/24 careers fairs, please see information below, if you would like to participate in a fair please complete the corresponding booking form on the table below.

Information for employers:

These events will be aimed at students from all year groups looking for placements, summer jobs/internships, or course-related part-time work. Also open to graduates.

Brief overview:

• Cost to exhibit:

Roles: Placements, summer jobs/internships, graduate schemes, graduate level roles or course-related part-time work.

Communication with students: You can let us know on a booking form which students you want to meet; year groups, relevant courses etc. we can then target advertisements to these students ahead of the fair.

Sponsoring our Careers Fairs: A £500 sponsorship for the fair includes:

• Main sponsor billing on the Careers Fair landing page
• Sponsor logo featured on students’ fair booking page
• Sponsor logo featured on event advertising and promotional material
• Sponsor logo featured on pre-event Careers & Enterprise content
• Pre-event email communication to students in your selected target* [content required]
• Opportunity to identify stand location at the venue

Feedback from 2022/2023 Careers Fairs:

‘The students seemed keen and engaged well’ P/T jobs and Volunteering Fair 2022

‘Great opportunity to interact with Students studying a range of courses’ Salford Business School Careers Fair 2022

‘Great venue and a very well organised fair. It seemed to be very well attended with students coming through right until the end of the fair. The Careers team were really helpful and accommodating both before and during the fair’ Science Engineering & Environment Careers Fair 2022

‘A great opportunity for us to meet students face to face and to tell them more about what we do’ Arts, Media and Creative Technology Careers Fair 2022

‘Well organised and well attended’. ‘Well organised, helpful staff’. Spring Careers Fair 2023

As well as organising Careers Fairs, the University of Salford has a free to use online jobs portal for employers, which gains more than 22,000 views each year.
Jobs can be added throughout the year, for part-time work, placements and graduate level vacancies, either local or nationwide.

SMEs based in the North West might also be interested in our match-funded internships which you can read about on this page under 'Funded Internships and Employability Programmes', to employ final year students for 6 weeks.

Please contact Adrian Roscoe for further information on: business@salford.ac.uk or 0161 295 0023 (option 5, then 3).

Commission the Unitemps on-campus recruitment agency to identify and recruit appropriate student and graduate candidates for you. To enquire please telephone: 0161 295 0407 or email unitemps@salford.ac.uk or visit: https://www.salford.ac.uk/unitemps

Find out more in our Client Information Salford External 21 guide

Santander Universities Funding 2023-24

We work with Santander Universities UK to deliver an employability programme that offers funding to help employ students and recent graduates to work within your organisation.

The programme provides final year students and those who have graduated within the last three years with an opportunity to undertake a paid internship or work experience with a local business or organisation.  Host employers can elect to use the Santander Universities funding to fully fund or part fund an internship or work experience opportunity. The available funding will be no more than £1,000 per student or graduate and who are paid at no less than the current Real Living Wage [RLW] of £10.90p.

Taking full advantage of the funding the internship or work experience will therefore be no less than 91 hours with interns working no more than 35 hours in any working week. Employers wishing to host a student or graduate can engage them for a longer period provided they make no less than an equal contribution and their wage i.e. £1,000 and ensure that they are paid at the RLW.

Host employers can be from any sector and will be reimbursed up to £1,000 whether they chose to part fund or fully fund the employment. Any funding provided by the University will be paid based on the actual number of hours worked. The rate of pay is set at £10.90 per hour which is the current [as of September 2023] Real Living Wage.

Programme basics

• Graduates will be paid no less than the Real Living Wage rate of pay £10.90ph
• Host employers can use the funding to fully fund or part fund the employment opportunity
• Maximum 91 hours working fully funded
• Maximum 182 hours working 50% co-funded
• Total funding provided will not exceed £1,000.00
• Eligible for final year Students and Graduates from within the last 3 years
• Open to any size or type of organisation
• Funding paid retrospectively on receipt of invoice
• Funding payment not subject to VAT
• One student/ graduate per organisation

Funding for this programme is limited and will be allocated once a student or graduate has agreed to commence an internship or work experience opportunity and a start date is confirmed.

Employers wishing to participate in any of the opportunities funded by Santander Universities will be required to supply company information and current bank details, where necessary, in addition to specific information detailing the work to be undertaken by the student or graduate. This information will be in the form of a Learning Agreement. The employing organisation and intern will also be asked to provide a suitable evaluation at the end of the programme.

Please note, no payments will be made to employers unless they have provided the necessary information to enable them to be successfully set up as an official supplier to the University of Salford.

To find out more or apply to be a host employer please contact us at business@salford.ac.uk

If you are a charity, a not-for-profit organisation (including social enterprises and public sector organisations), or a community group in the UK and would like to advertise a volunteering opportunity, please complete our Volunteering Opportunity Registration Form.  

Volunteering opportunities can then be promoted through our Employer Handshake vacancy promotion service. Read our policy for more information.

Contact HEDD (Higher Education Degree Datacheck) for verification of candidate qualifications and study.