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Engage students and build a future talent community that's representative of the communities you operate in.

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Let Uptree do the work for you

As an employer, you want to engage the brightest young talent from the widest possible range of backgrounds. There’s a lot of untapped potential out there.

But running an effective work experience programme that meets your early careers goals requires specialist expertise and extensive resource. That’s where Uptree can help.

We’re already engaged with thousands of talented students in schools across the UK. And we want to get you connected.

Ashley's story

“If I wasn’t signed up to Uptree I would have never applied for this apprenticeship because I had never heard of it. Through Uptree, I found the opportunity that I am currently in now. So without Uptree’s support... I wouldn’t have found out about Coca-Cola [Europacific Partners]’s apprenticeship.”

Read more here.

  • 297,664 Students in our network

  • 29% Free school meals

  • 66% Minority ethnic groups

  • 53% Female

  • 31,138 Work experience applications this year

Figures correct as of September 2024

Develop your work experience, step by step

  1. Tell your story, post opportunities and bring your employer brand to life on our digital student platform.
  2. We'll empower you to run unique experiences of work, designed to make you an employer of choice for students.
  3. We'll provide innovative data and post-experience reporting to give you key insights into your audience and help quantify your impact.
  4. You'll have a dedicated account manager who'll work proactively to help you make the most of every outreach opportunity.
  • Will I ever stop banging on about how amazing Uptree are? Probably not. If you’re an early-careers employer you really need to know! Anna Malan, Community and Inclusion at Arm
  • Our work with Uptree has connected us with talented young people through work experience events, helping us to engage with female talent and promote career opportunities within our company. Lauren Hillier, Early Careers Recruitment Specialist at Schroders
  • We really value the relationships Uptree has with schools and students, as it gives us the opportunity to reach people we wouldn’t be able to otherwise. Kelly Markwick, Graduate and Student Recruitment at IBM

Benefits of working with us

Connection V3

Connect with a diverse audience of engaged students
Focus your recruitment outreach towards our UK-wide network of motivated, enthusiastic students, with a focus on students from under-represented backgrounds. We work directly with schools, which means we can target specific groups more effectively.

Finance

More meaningful outreach
Leverage our know-how to deliver outstanding schools outreach, education programmes, recruitment or diversity initiatives as cost-effectively as possible.

Our Student Outreach Calendar highlights the optimum time to engage with students.

Success V2

Supercharge your hiring
Become the employer of choice and hire better, more diverse talent. We’ll help you meet students face-to-face, create unique work experience opportunities and build a talent pipeline for the future.

Face to face

An extension of your team
Our approach for facilitating outreach and work experience makes it easy and simple to partner with us. Just consider us an extension of your team.

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