Reduced rates for short term student placements

ISPO, the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber’s International Student Placement Office has come up with an idea to help many companies to fill the gaps created by annual leave this Summer.

For a limited time only, ISPO is offering three month placements at a reduced rate of £400 plus VAT for Chamber members and £500 plus VAT for non members (usual accommodation and transport costs still apply).

Historically, ISPO has charged the same fee to cover its costs as the actual recruitment process demands the same amount of resources regardless of length of placement. However, a recent upsurge in applications for short term placements from certain EU member states has prompted a shift. 

ISPO Co-ordinator Ben Littler said: “Currently we have so many applicants that we have been able to speed up the recruitment process for three month placements. the knock on effect of this is that we are able to pass on the reduced cost to our customers.”

The increase in applications for short term placements has been brought about by several factors, one of which is an increase in applications generally since ISPO re-launched its website in August last year. In addition, three month placements are part of the curriculum in some French universities. ISPOs recent growth in other areas of the EU is also helping.

Ben said: “we noticed that a lot of applications for short term placements were coming in from the Baltic states and from Poland. We decided to take advantage of this fact as these are precisely the countries that many of our new customers are looking to work with.”

For more information please contact Ben Littler or Nathalie Hol on 01332 851 280 or email: ispo:dncc.co.uk