The TalentScotland Placement Programme places skilled graduates and undergraduates in organisations across all sectors and across Scotland to conduct innovative projects and support their business growth.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise provides eligible businesses and social enterprises in the Highlands and Islands with the opportunity to employ a graduate or undergraduate for a specific piece of work. There are two different types of placements available:
The programme is only available to businesses and social enterprises that are account managed by HIE (i.e. are working on a growth plan with HIE). For information on account management, please contact your local Business Gateway Office.
The projects supported through a placement must be vitally important to the business but not currently be being delivered due to a lack of resources or time. In other words, the placement must relate to capacity to doing something different, rather than more of the same work. Projects should be quantifiable, measureable and clearly demonstrate an impact on business performance, for example increased turnover or sales, create cost savings or new jobs.
Graduate placements
- 6 to 12 month placements for recent graduates
- between 40% and 70% wage subsidy available for the hosting organisation
More information can be downloaded from the right hand side of this page: employer information leaflet, graduate information leaflet and case studies. View all currently advertised graduate vacancies here.
Student Summer placements
- 8 week placements for current students during the summer
- 50% wage subsidy available for the hosting organisation
More information can be found in the employer and student information leaflets - please download these from the right hand side of this page. To find out what summer placement projects took place in 2011 please watch the videos on the right hand side. Summer placement vacancies are advertised here now.
Please note: If you would like to register your interest in hosting a placement this summer, please email placements@hient.co.uk with your name, business name, contact telephone number and email address and we will contact you with information on the 2012 placement programme.
(Data protection: HIE will not share your information or use it to contact you for any other purpose other than contacting you in relation to this programme.)
For more information on the placement programme please contact the Placement Programme Co-ordinator Laura Howarth on 01463 244488 or email placements@hient.co.uk
The TalentScotland Graduate Placement Programme is a multi-party programme supported by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, TalentScotland, the Scottish Government, Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council. In the Highlands and Islands the project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
