Hiring a student on a summer placement

[minestrone]

Anyone ever done this?

Considering hiring a marketing student for 10 week over the summer to promote some stuff, probably someone that is just about to go into his honours year.

The way I see I could probably pay 7 quid an hour 35 hours a week for 10 weeks, they get some on the job training and I will get some cheap labour with no long term commitment.

[Pondlife]

You dirty old dog, you.






(well, you did post in general)

[PRC1964]

Yes, we've hired a few Gap year kids in the past. The results have varied from really, really good to sacked within two days.

If you can block all social networking sites and preferably all mobile phone signals you'll get much more work out of them.

[jmo21]

Anyone ever done this?

Considering hiring a marketing student for 10 week over the summer to promote some stuff, probably someone that is just about to go into his honours year.

The way I see I could probably pay 7 quid an hour 35 hours a week for 10 weeks, they get some on the job training and I will get some cheap labour with no long term commitment.

You get what you pay for, of that I'm sure you're well aware.

Many might say sales and marketing is the most important part of any business.

[Paddy]

Anyone ever done this?

Considering hiring a marketing student for 10 week over the summer to promote some stuff, probably someone that is just about to go into his honours year.

The way I see I could probably pay 7 quid an hour 35 hours a week for 10 weeks, they get some on the job training and I will get some cheap labour with no long term commitment.

Like this...

Like this...

[minestrone]

Got a bit of experience in marketing as I worked in the industry for a while, this work will be pretty much donkey work but something they can get their teeth into

Promotinal work rather than front line sales.

[jmo21]

Got a bit of experience in marketing as I worked in the industry for a while, this work will be pretty much donkey work but something they can get their teeth into

Promotinal work rather than front line sales.

fair enough, I'd def block the social networking sites though

[d000hg]

You get what you pay for, of that I'm sure you're well aware.

Rubbish. If you plot a scatter-graph of price Vs competence you can probably see a trend, but that's a statistical thing not a direct correlation. You can find students at uni who can be more useful than £500/day contractors, they're just not the norm... cue interviewing and so on.


I've been tempted to do this (not marketing but coding), my old uni actually ran a program they'd pay the students minimum wage to come and get experience working.

[minestrone]

I managed a summer placement coder for a while, he was pretty good, got him in to write jUnit tests for an application I was working on, by the end of the summer he was one of the better developers in the team. All down to my teaching of course.

[dinker]

When you say marketing do you mean delivering leaflets?