Benefits of Membership

ASET membership benefits both the institutional member and the placement professionals employed at an institution, and indirectly also benefits the employability of students undertaking work-based learning .

HE/FE providers and their employees and individual practitioners:

• Share in the benefits of dissemination of good practice, research and innovation, through the website, conference, workshops and bulletins
• Benefit from existing expertise in all matters relating to employability
• Optimise the opportunity to network and collaborate with colleagues in similar and related positions
• Find support with identifying and meeting training needs
• Develop improved awareness of how to get the best out of work-based learning opportunities including placements
• Have access to authoritative and well-developed reference publications, ASET Good Practice Guides, as well as conference proceedings
• Benefit from discounts for employees for conference and workshops, potentially saving the cost of membership several times over

Companies: If your company is host to placement students then ASET can:

• Provide you with access to placement tutors and contacts who can directly facilitate recruitment and other employing services
• Present you with opportunities to narrow down the field and find the most suitable academic institutions and people to work with
• Help you raise your profile as recruiters amongst placement tutors
• Offer help and support in best practice and the procedures of employing placement students
• Help you develop informed expectations about undergraduate students and what they can offer your business, particularly for smaller companies and those new to placements
• Enable you to find advice on how to get the best value out of students during work-based learning arrangements
• Let you use its logo which will highlight to placement professionals that you are committed to placements and good practice