Placements provide project-based work in smaller companies (SMEs), charitable organisations and public sector bodies based in Wales, and you are paid at a minimum rate of £250 per week. Past placements include marketing, IT, engineering, social/welfare, environmental, and business - but anything else is possible.

Placements are open to undergraduates as full-time summer vacation, part-time at other times of year, or split between the two.

For graduates, placements can be at any time, and approximately two thirds result in longer-term employment with the host company.  Graduate placees can also take advantage of the GO Wales Graduate Development Fund that can provide support for their professional development.

You can view placement opportunities and apply online through the GO Wales website.

Follow GO Wales on Facebook  and Twitter  to be the first to hear about new work placements and job opportunities for students and graduates in Wales.

The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services has produced a video about opportunities with SMEs entitled Big Opportunities in Small Businesses, streamed here in a choice of two formats:

• high quality (2 Mb/s), full screen
• medium quality (500 Kb/s), quarter screen.