Get a Head Start in Your Career, at Mitchells
A placement at Mitchells is the perfect way to gain valuable industry experience during your penultimate year at university. Enquire TodayUndergraduate Opportunities at Mitchells.
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If your degree course includes a year away from studies in a business environment (sandwich course), then a placement at Mitchells is the perfect way to gain valuable industry experience during your penultimate year at university.
Rest assured you won’t be photocopying and tea making if you choose to spend your placement year with Mitchells. You will form part of a highly skilled team and be expected to make a useful contribution to a whole range of client projects.
You’ll have a fantastic opportunity to build and work on your commercial awareness and interpersonal skills. A placement with Mitchells is also a great way to make sure accountancy and business advice is the career for you.
If you have a good academic record and can demonstrate how you’ve used your initiative and team-working skills, then we’d love to hear from you.
Our placements commence around August and last for 11 months, however it could be the launch pad to a permanent, full-time career with us.
We want the best, that’s why our recruitment process for undergraduates begins in December. If you’d like to know more or wish to apply then please email your CV and a covering letter, in confidence, to andrewmcdaid@mitchellsaccountants.co.uk
Don’t take our word for it…
See how a placement at Mitchells helped Abigail Chadburn throughout her final year at university…
Read about Brandon's Placement Year at Mitchells Accountants & Business Advisers➝
Each year Mitchells take an individual from Sheffield Hallam University and offer them a work placement for one year. Brandon Wazirali, who carried out his placement year at Mitchells in 2018, has now graduated from his BA Hons Accounting and Finance degree at Sheffield Hallam University.
Read about Joe's Placement Year at Mitchells Accountants & Business Advisers➝
Each year Mitchells take an individual from Sheffield Hallam University and offer them a work placement for one year. Typically, the candidates have completed two years of a three-year degree, normally in Accounting and Finance, Business or Mathematics.
Melissa Grafton and Hannah Longton are both undergraduates in Accounting and Finance. Melissa studying at University of Lincoln and Hannah studying at Sheffield Hallam University.
Applying for a placement is a very daunting thought, after being in full time education for the past 20 years, the idea of writing up a CV and applying felt very overwhelming but this couldn’t have been put more at ease when we applied to Mitchells. The application process at Mitchells gave us both a great idea of what it would be like to work here with having an interview with both our line manager and a partner at the firm. This showed us how hands on our superiors are with new workers and what our work environment would be like.
From the moment we started working at Mitchells we were given the space and jobs to help us develop as people both academically and personally. Some of the many personal skills we have developed include confidence, communication, and time management. Working in a corporate environment has greatly improved our time management skills as we have had to ensure we complete jobs on time in order of importance. We both believe our confidence and communication have developed hand in hand as Mitchells have always provided an environment to ask for help off colleagues and superiors to ensure that we are learning and developing on each job and never struggling.
From spending the year at Mitchells, we can see exactly how transferrable the skills we have gained are to our final year at University. At University it can sometimes be hard to comprehend how theory is used in practise, but from working in different sectors and different clients. We have expanded our commercial awareness and our ability to retain and relate our knowledge. We have both felt our Excel skills have been greatly enhanced from being able to work on special and innovative projects within Mitchells.
We have not only gained in skills and experience but have also gained an inclusive social work team. Every month our colleagues have made effort to include us and feel welcomed into the workspace by having monthly events such as escape rooms, and meals out. This has helped settle and ease our worries of joining the world of full-time employment. It has also helped us develop good working relationships.
We couldn’t recommend completing a placement year at Mitchells enough, we have even had the lucky offer of being invited back. Which we have gladly accepted as we know that the Mitchells working environment will give us all the support as we study and work towards our ACA qualification to become a Chartered Accountant.
“In the past six months, I’ve been working with the corporate team. Everything that I do is really contributing to my learning and understanding of the business and financial world” – Abigail Chadburn
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