Frontrunners
What is frontrunners?
frontrunners is the University's unique placement scheme which gives
students the opportunity to undertake challenging employment around campus
and develop the higher-level skills necessary to compete for the best jobs.
The scheme is open to all University of Essex students, offers on-placement
training, and is paid. There are two levels of placements, frontrunners and
frontrunners plus. Placements are between one and three terms in length and
up to 12 hours per week during term time and 20 hours per week over the
summer. frontrunners also supports students in developing their ability to
reflect on and articulate the skills they have acquired. At the end of the
last academic year, 100% of students involved in frontrunners said that they
would recommend the experience to a friend!
Application round for students now open
Autumn round placements are now available to apply for. Please
see our
current placements for all available opportunities. Deadline for
applications: Wednesday 13 June 5pm.
Staff applications
We are also accepting staff applications for frontrunner placements
that will begin in spring 2012-13. For more information, please see
how to
apply.
The Frontrunners Team presented a paper and poster at the Higher
Education Academy Conference 2010.
Download
the poster for a good overview of the scheme.
“The frontrunners placement has really benefited me by giving me valuable
work experience to put on my CV as well as providing me with skills and
experience I can use in my third year project which is directly related to
Sport and Exercise Science. I would definitely recommend the frontrunners
placement to anyone looking to add to their CV and, of course, earn some
cash!”
Elis Bennett