Jaguar Land Rover welcomes record intake of undergraduate placements

In the last four years the manufacturer of premium luxury vehicles has hired 2,000 young people onto its graduate and apprentice programmes and this year has seen a record number of undergraduates join its 2015 work placement programme.

Over 6,000 applicants applied online to the scheme, with 230 being told that they had successfully navigated the selection process to land a role that could eventually see them take a step up into the company’s Graduate Programme.

Two-thirds of this year’s intake will join the scheme for 12 weeks, whilst the remaining third will embark on a full year with the business. Rob Gill, Jaguar Land Rover’s Graduate and Undergraduate Recruitment Manager, took a call from The Student Engineer to explain how the application process works.

SE: JLR encourages – and indeed expects - high standards from its employees based around 8 high performance behaviours including business acumen, team working, efficient delivery of products or services, and being able to form effective relationships. How do you assess these competencies?