Unisource is a free digital hub that connects students looking for degree-relevant work experience with businesses seeking assistance with tasks. We launched Unisource in 2020, working in collaboratio...
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Kick-start your career while you’re still at university with Unisource.
If you're a university student, lack of work experience is often a barrier to starting a career after graduation. Unisource enables you to gain invaluable skills and degree-relevant experience. By bidding to complete tasks for businesses, students can amass a portfolio of bite-sized work experiences to supplement a placement year.
Register and create your profile
Review the task posts that match your skills
Send your bid for relevant tasks
Communicate with businesses and start gaining experience
Students are keen to access work experience opportunities through their university. Join our growing band of students to:
Improve your CV
First degrees have risen by 500%. Business leaders like Ernst & Young say they now focus more on work experience than grades when recruiting, which increases pressure to gain real-life commercial understanding.
Share know-how
Students often underestimate their inherent expertise. Through your studies, it’s likely you’ll be well-versed in the latest thinking in your specialism. You have fresh ideas and digital expertise that is second nature. Unisource helps you capitalise on your knowledge.
Find networking opportunities
With a bank of tasks and reviews under your belt and a network of connections and tangible relationships with local businesses, you’ll have a great opportunity to start your career through your contacts.
Expand your skills
Businesses need commercially savvy graduates, but some skills just aren’t taught at University. Completing tasks helps build skills in communication, teamwork, negotiating, problem-solving, leadership, organisation, perseverance, motivation, working under pressure and confidence; all vital for the workplace.
What’s more, the timing of opportunities appears to be shifting: short-term work, shadowing and internship roles are being offered to undergraduates at earlier stages of their studies, as employers attempt to engage with committed, motivated students before their competitors do.
Jayne Rowley - Chief Executive of Prospects and HECSU
The value of work: 40% of graduate recruiters say it’s ‘not very likely’ or ‘not at all likely’ that graduates with no previous work experience would be successful during the selection process and be made a job offer, irrespective of their academic achievements or the university they had attended.
Unisource is a free digital hub that connects students looking for degree-relevant work experience with businesses seeking assistance with tasks. We launched Unisource in 2020, working in collaboratio...
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Unisource is a free digital hub that connects businesses seeking assistance with tasks with students looking for degree-relevant work experience.We launched Unisource in 2020, working in collaboration...
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Since we launched Unisource in 2020, to connect students with businesses to work together on tasks, we’ve been collaborating closely with Frances Gow, Head of Employability and Careers, at the Unive...
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