Why offer Practical Experience Placement opportunities ?


Flexibility

The low cost PrEx matching – system allows employers to stipulate quite detailed selection criteria and still view the details of a considerable number of candidates from many countries, which are already pre-selected to meet several if not all of the employers vacancy requirements.
Even if only a very small fraction of 1% among the estimated almost 100,000,000 students worldwide registers their details in a placement application on www.practical-experience.com, the potential for a match with an employer’s requirements is very promising. And the potential for such a match continues as long as a vacancy your vacancy is registered.

Applicants’ Motivation
The ultimate objective of most Work Experience Placement seekers is to actually gain the maximum practical experience possible and to obtain an outstanding reference for outstanding performance.
This inbuilt strength of motivation is probably the most relevant point in favour of employing practical work experience seekers.

Restricted Liability
Flexibility also means short term assignments without long-term employment law contracts. Interns require no holiday pay, no paid maternity or paternity leave or other payroll complications. Most candidates will have their own health insurance. The pay expected by practical experience placement candidates varies considerably, dependant on how keen the applicant and how keen the employer are and often also, what absolute minimum of survival funding / cost of living support he applicant requires, if he / she typically does not have alternative financial support.

Zero-risk recruitment
There is no better way of finding optimal long term employees for any position, than by experiencing their abilities and their attitude towards others in a variety of situations during a basically non – committal low cost trial period. An employer who can accommodate several placement students, can offer the best suited a long term employment for the time when he / she will become available. All this is achieved without the expense and uncertainty of agency searches and fully salaried probationary periods.

Expanding the Business
For many, particularly smaller or medium-sized businesses, employing a placement candidate can become a first, cost-effective, low risk, step into a new market by inviting experience from and knowledge of different regions.
Placement students can also be very suitable in a wide variety of organizations – business and non for profit for one-off projects and to fill in for holiday or maternity absences of permanent staff.

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rEx can help employers to develop consecutive placements into permanent teams, allowing otherwise
costly positions to be provided by overlapping placement students. Ongoing functions can be performed by consecutive candidates, who can proudly pass on their experiences to their successors, ensuring that there is no need for supervised training.