About RateMyPlacement.co.uk… The idea for RateMyPlacement was borne out of our own experiences out on placements and internships way back in 2006. At the time, the three of us were about to head into our final year of studies at Loughborough University and having been through the process ourselves, we felt there wasn’t enough information out there for students when it came to work experience opportunities.
the rise – which has worked out rather nicely for us! 2010 was a period of huge growth for the business as we moved into an office in Central London and took on our first full-time employees, including three of our very own placement students! Alongside the website, 2010 also saw the launch of our annual event - The National Placement & Internship Awards and the subsequent release of our first publication, ‘A Students’ Guide to the Top 20 Placement & Internship Employers’.
So in March 2007, after pooling some of our student loans together to pay for a website, the very first RateMyPlacement.co.uk was launched, simply to provide an online platform for students to rate and review their placement and internship experiences for the benefit of those students following in their footsteps. As the number of students using the website began to rise, we started to speak to employers about the possibility of them promoting their opportunities alongside their reviews and it was in 2008 that our business, RMP Enterprise Ltd, really began to take off. After reaching the national final of a business competition run by HSBC called ‘Unipreneurs’, the three of us resigned from our safe graduate jobs to work on RateMyPlacement full-time, and I’m pleased to say we haven’t looked back since! Despite launching in the midst of a global recession, 2008 and 2009 were spent building up awareness of the website at universities across the UK, as well as developing our client-base of organisations that were looking to engage with and recruit undergraduates into placement and internship schemes. As the profile of RateMyPlacement increased amongst students and universities, demand amongst graduate employers to identify and recruit students at an earlier stage via placement and internship schemes was also on 150
As the need to acquire relevant work experience and employability skills before graduating has risen dramatically, the volume of students using RateMyPlacement on a daily basis has consistently increased year-on-year, providing our growing client base with access to talented undergraduates across the UK. By the end of 2010, we were working with over 150 companies, had visited over 100 universities since September and our team was up to 9!
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