Explore versatile options to help you strengthen your talent pipeline – from advertising vacancies to offering real-world experience.
Key mutual benefits
Working with us means opening doors for your organisation and our talent pool. You'll be able to:
- innovate by accessing fresh ideas and emerging skills
- raise your brand profile and position your organisation as an employer of choice
- empower a future professional to launch their career and realise their ambitions
- strengthen your workforce with motivated, work-ready talent who reflect the diversity of your customers and communities
- champion the social mobility of students from underrepresented groups, furthering your corporate social responsibility goals
Ways to recruit
We have a wide range of flexible recruitment solutions and key resources to ensure all opportunities are inclusive and aligned with our values, including our:
Ready to share a role now?
You can reach thousands of students and graduates actively seeking career opportunities by promoting your role for free on CareerZone.
Want to collaborate on longer-term solutions?
If you're considering opportunities exclusive to Westminster talent or longer-term recruitment collaborations, get in touch using our enquiry form.
Placements, internships and live briefs are powerful tools for inviting fresh ideas and emerging skills into your organisation.
You can grow your sphere of influence among emerging talent and provide them with real-world experience by:
- posting a placement or internship for free on CareerZone
- connecting with our dedicated college placement teams
- offering live briefs where talent can solve real-world challenges
Learn more about how to offer placements or internships.
If you’re a third or public sector organisation, our student volunteers can support your initiatives with their energy, enthusiasm and diverse perspectives.
As part of this service, designed exclusively for non-profit and third sector partners, you can:
- advertise voluntary roles to our students for free
- collaborate on specific projects
- showcase your organisation to student volunteers at events
Discover how to recruit student volunteers.
Our students and graduates are often talented freelancers who span disciplines and offer specialist, work-ready expertise. For example, they can:
- deliver project-based or administrative solutions
- explore unexpected solutions for organisational challenges
- conduct research and analysis
- provide technical support and expertise
- produce content and creative deliverables
You can promote paid freelance opportunities through our CareerZone platform.
If you're curious about entrepreneurial talent at Westminster, you can also connect with WeNetwork, our award-winning enterprise community.
If you’re recruiting for multiple roles, we offer a dedicated, in-person opportunity to position yourself as an employer of choice for emerging talent.
In two high-impact hours of visibility, you’ll host a stand at one of our four London campuses, where you can:
- speak directly with interested students and graduates
- showcase your brand and promote your organisation
- identify, connect and follow up with potential candidates
Interested? Read more about our on-campus recruiter sessions.
Careers fairs are another high-impact way to meet motivated students and graduates who are actively exploring their next steps.
You can connect with emerging talent and boost your visibility by:
- engaging students face to face on campus
- meeting a diverse pool of candidates at our online events
- showcasing your organisation directly to potential applicants
Discover how to host or join our careers fairs and events.
In any business context, a diverse and outward-looking workforce offers a powerful advantage. The University is home to international talent from over 169 countries.
International students and graduates can:
- fill vital skills gaps
- offer unique perspectives to problem solving
- reflect the diversity of your customers and communities
- work part time during study
- stay in the UK for up to 18 months after study without employer sponsorship
To find out more, you can:
- learn about recruiting our international talent in our best practice guide
- explore UKCISA’s employer resources (external site)
- browse ISE’s advice on international recruitment (external site)
Get started
If you'd like to start an informal discussion, you can either:
- email [email protected]Email us about ways to recruit students or graduates
- express your interest using our enquiry form
Employer testimonials
Read some of the positive feedback we've received from employers below, or explore all our collaboration stories.
His thoroughness, proactive engagement and focus on delivery marked him out as one of the major contributors to the team's success on a migration project.
Placement at IBM
Now considered the 'go-to' person by our director for formatting leadership presentations, she is firmly established as a key contributor within the intern community.
Placement at The Walt Disney Company
The volunteer made outstanding progress throughout her placement, developing a clear, supportive tutoring style and showing growing assurance in her ability to explain difficult concepts in a way pupils could easily understand.
Volunteer role at Action Tutoring
Connect with talent inside Zone29
Zone29 is purpose-built for connecting industry with emerging talent. When you recruit with us, you'll be able to use this versatile, tech-enabled space to:
- meet with students you currently work with
- interview candidates for vacancies, placements, internships, volunteering and more
- collaborate on live briefs, business challenges or hackathons
- deliver skills sessions to prepare students and graduates for your recruitment process
Learn more about our Zone29 spaces and facilities.
Contact us
- Email [email protected]Email us about recruiting students or graduates
- Express your interest through our enquiry form