FEATURE
Stand out from the crowd
Rebecca Morley speaks to Raleigh UK’s Stuart Atkins and sports technology student Katie Lawrence about how work placements can help bring people into the cycling industry
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inding work experience placements during degree courses is difficult for all students, no matter what industry they’re in, and many often struggle to find opportunities that lead them down the right career path. But Nottingham-based bike brand Raleigh has recently started offering students the chance to do placements at the company during their sandwich year, offering hands-on experience at one of the bike industry’s most iconic brands. Students on ‘sandwich degree’ courses take on practical work experience as part of their higher education studies, often during a four or five year course that includes a year-long placement or internship. “Back in 2019, I had the idea of reaching out to Loughborough University,” Raleigh UK’s finance director Stuart Atkins told BikeBiz. “I’m well aware how difficult it is for the students to get good quality year-out
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placements when they’re doing four-year degree courses. “We’d gotten ourselves into a position at Raleigh where we felt we could start to offer opportunities out to people. We’re not really big enough to do a big scheme, but anything we can do to give some sort of opportunity and provide some experience is a good thing. “It’s really just about getting in touch with the students, asking them to send their CVs and tell us what they’re interested in doing, and then me having a conversation with them to see if we’re in a good place to offer them what they’re looking for.”
The aim for Raleigh is to provide students with some valuable career experience to help them decide what they want to do when they graduate, continued Atkins, and hopefully bring them into the cycling industry.
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