Hire our graduates

Graduate talent

Does your organisation have a professional opportunity or graduate development programme that is suited to a recent graduate? The Derby Talent Team can help you find the best candidate for the role.

Employing someone at the start of their career will often bring new perspectives and can be a great way to create a long-term talent pipeline for your organisation and help develop future leaders.

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What a graduate will bring to your organisation

Our graduates have high-level skills, fresh perspectives, and huge potential. By offering them graduate opportunities, you can bring new skills into your business, help them develop, and build your talent pipeline. In particular, University of Derby students and graduates will:

have good digital skills and experience of using a wide range of technology
be capable of using their knowledge to solve real business issues and problems, because we build this 'real world learning' into our courses
be curious, passionate about learning, and be able to adapt to change
have the latest subject-specific knowledge
add diversity to your workforce

How to advertise your opportunities to our student and graduates

If your organisation has any of the above opportunities, you can advertise them for free to our students and graduates by uploading it to our online vacancy platform. Alternatively, if you'd like to discuss your opportunities further then email the team.

Student Employment Agency

The Student Employment Agency can help your organisation find a graduate to fill permanent, casual or part-time roles. The Agency has a wide range of students and graduates available and offers a flexible service, at very competitive rates. 

Get in touch with the Student Employment Agency

Employer stories

Hear how employers have benefitted from student and graduate talent.

Just-Ice Directors, Sally and Gavin Murray

Graduate skills for Just-Ice

Ethical ice cream company, Just-Ice, took on a funded graduate intern to help them develop a delivery strategy to support their new e-commerce app.

Head and shoulders shot of Richard Beevers from Customer Plus

Interns for Customer Plus

Watch an interview with Richard Beevers from Customer Plus about how Derby interns have benefitted his company.

Citizens Advice recruit Derby interns

Citizens Advice Mid Mercia has recently recruited two new Derby interns to help with its digital marketing, thanks to support and funding from the Productivity through Innovation programme.

Accounting intern for Derby Museums

Derby Museums recently hosted one of our Accounting students for an internship. Find out about their experience of employing student talent.

Head and shoulders shot of Rebecca Erskine

Interns work remotely for Yellow Bird Marketing

Rebecca from Yellow Bird Marketing and Communications talks about her experience of employing a student and graduate, who worked remotely because of the pandemic.

Wider business services

The University of Derby is a university of and for business; an applied university, committed to using our research and knowledge, expertise and resources to inspire and develop the organisations of today and tomorrow. Using technology, we offer learning and personal development, industry-shaping research and innovation, digital networking events and seminars along with support to nurture and recruit your workforce. For further information, learn about our growing innovation and business.

Contact us

To discuss any of this information in more detail, please get in touch with the Derby talent team directly via email: derbytalentteam@derby.ac.uk or telephone: 01332 592939.