Dear Employer, Welcome to the October edition of our Employer Newsletter.
What you will read about this month:
- Our Employer Engagement Team
- How employers help enrich our award-winning student experience
Happy reading! | Meet the Employer Engagement Team 🤝 | Employer Engagement Manager | Roles and Responsibilities: | Planning and managing a range of services that help employers build productive, lasting relationships with the University, ensuring that our services are flexible, competitive and adapt to the changing needs of our stakeholders. | Taking a unique approach to partnering with the University of Sheffield to create a talent pipeline. | Favourite project last academic year: | On-campus events are always a highlight of the year for me. We’ve seeing a rise in employers wanting to visit campus to meet our students face-to-face through a variety of events and activities. It’s fantastic to welcome so many local, national and international employers onto campus, heart-warming to see students exploring their options and shaping their career thinking, and rewarding to hear of so many positive outcomes from these interactions. | Employer Engagement Coordinator | Roles and Responsibilities: | Connecting international or UK employers with our international students from more than 150 countries worldwide. | Why and how should UK employers tap into the international talent pool in the UK HE sector, and how should overseas employers engage international graduates who will be returning home after UK education. | Favourite project last academic year: | Working with the Yorkshire University International Networking Group to deliver the Global Talent, Local Impact: Hiring International Students Made Simple workshop, which promotes business benefits and visa routes of recruiting and retaining international graduates in the region. | Employer Engagement Officer | Roles and Responsibilities: | Connecting employers with students from the Faculty of Engineering (inc. Computer Science) and the wider university, via careers fairs, networking events, guest lectures, and projects. | How you could attract Engineering and Computer Science students and graduates to your organisation. | Favourite project last academic year: | Coordinating an F1 racing team’s on-campus recruitment event, which enabled them to host a car simulator fast lap competition and sign up over 300 engineering students to their Early Careers portal. | Employer Engagement Officer | Roles and Responsibilities: | Engaging and collaborating with recruiters of science students and graduates. Building and sustaining relationships with organisations of all sizes, providing tailored packages to support organisations with their recruitment strategies. | Engaging with all disciplines in the Faculty of Science and how we can support you with recruitment in your organisation. | Favourite project last academic year: | Supporting our School of Biosciences Mock Interviews for students. I sourced employers who have an interest in raising their profile amongst our bioscientists, and coordinated their input into the event. Several organisations took part and offered their time to carry out online interviews and provide feedback to the students. This was a valuable experience for both the student and the employer. | Employer Engagement Officer | Roles and Responsibilities: | Working with organisations to develop and implement strategic engagement plans that raise their profile and attract suitable applicants. Linked to the Faculty of Social Sciences. | How you can get involved with students at the University of Sheffield, specifically those in the Faculty of Social Sciences. | Favourite project last academic year: | During a secondment last year, I worked with the Faculty of Social Sciences to integrate employability into the curriculum, and increase the number of students who gained year-long placement roles. | Employer Engagement Officer | Roles and Responsibilities: | I work with organisations and SMEs local to South Yorkshire to develop and implement strategic engagement initiatives. This will in turn boost their profile as an employer and attract top applicants to their vacancies, thus securing emerging talent. Linked to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. | What skills and attributes the students from Arts and Humanities can bring to your business or enterprise. | Favourite project last academic year: | I am really proud of the standard of employers we engage with and host at the University for events such as Insights to Publishing and the Sales Challenge for our Languages students. | How employers help enrich our award-winning student experience | We are delighted that The University of Sheffield has been named University of the Year for Student Experience by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026, and has risen to 13th place in the UK. The award cements the University’s consistent commendations for its student experience and is testament to the hard work of our staff, but that's not all. Employers are vital partners in enriching our student experience by collaborating to offer meaningful work-related opportunities that build essential skills and commercial awareness. Providing placements and internships, offering real-world projects, sharing industry insights, and mentoring, creates practical experiences, equips students with in-demand knowledge and skills, and fosters a stronger connection between academia and industry. This month, the University was also ranked 16th overall in the UK by The Guardian’s University Guide 2026, and has once again been recognised as one of the best universities in England for collaborating and engaging with businesses, communities and the public, according to the Knowledge Exchange framework (KEF) 2025. A huge thank you to the many employers that contribute to our award-winning student experience. If you would like to get involved at the University of Sheffield, take a look at how other employers have benefited from collaborating with us and get in touch email at careers@sheffield.ac.uk. | |
