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Placement Programme

Our 11-month programme running from September 2023 to August 2024 provides an insight into driving change and providing clients with value-added solutions. You will embark on a challenging and exciting journey to help our clients change the way they work, behave and achieve their goals. You’ll have the opportunity to work on live consulting projects, enabling you to develop core skills and gain hands-on experience from industry leaders. This is the ideal opportunity to showcase your professional abilities at Capgemini Invent, with the potential to be invited to join the Accelerate Programme once you finish your degree.

This programme sits within two of Capgemini Invent’s Capability Units, frog and Intelligent Industry.

This exciting opportunity comes with exposure to a range of sectors and projects such as addressing fast-paced technology disruption, generating insights to influence decisions, designing digital services and developing new business strategies, all through the lens of enabling the right technology and business capabilities.

You will begin to create relationships across the organisation and acquire a foundation of consulting skills, tools, and methodologies to help you accelerate your career. You will be part of a project team, building trust-based relationships at the heart of a client’s organisation, helping them change the way they work and transform their business to achieve their goals. You’ll get early responsibility and build your skills through interesting and challenging work.

You should be studying to achieve an undergraduate degree that includes a sandwich year with a planned return to study in Autumn 2024.

You should be studying for a degree relevant to the role (for example but not limited to):
 
• frog Placement Programme: Marketing, Business Management, Economics, Industrial Design, Design, Psychology, Behavioural Psychology, Behavioural Science
• Intelligent Industry Placement Programme: Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Natural Sciences, Business, Economics

At the start of the Placement Programme, you must have the right to work in the UK.

Our 2 Placement Programme Routes

frog

frog specialises in creativity, design, and data, to re-invent businesses, drive growth, and orchestrate customer-centric transformation

Intelligent Industry

Intelligent Industry specialises in the next generation of digital transformation, enabling businesses to drive new revenue streams and increase efficiency from smart connected products, new business models, and intelligent, sustainable operations. Impacting sectors as diverse as Consumer Products & Retail, Energy & Nuclear, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Automotive, Services and more, unleashing new ways of doing business powered by data and technology.

What do our Placement Students say?

Sarah Khattab

University of Bath

This placement scheme has given me the opportunity to upskill and kick-start my career in a supportive environment. Since joining, I’ve worked on a range of internal and client-facing engagements, which allowed me to explore different areas of the business and consulting that interest me. Through these experiences, I’ve developed professional skills, learned new tools, and worked alongside great people.

Yuki Crook

University of Exeter

The nurturing environment in the placement scheme enabled me to broaden the knowledge I acquired at university to better fit the requirements of the consulting industry. Furthermore, the fast-paced culture of the company facilitated the development of a variety of skills that are invaluable to me and my future career.

Saam Fakhim

Loughborough University

My placement has immersed me in a collaborative and insightful work environment where I have felt fully supported by my team and manager, and always permitted me to explore and experiment with my ideas to stretch myself. The placement promotes a healthy work life balance and focuses on personal development which have been key to making me feel confident and ready to face the challenges in my projects and future work.

What we are looking for

If you are keen to embark on a career in an environment where you can drive change, we want to hear from you.

You will have:

  • The desire to work with clients to transform their business
  • Curiosity in the topics relevant to the role you are applying for
  • The drive to work effectively with diverse teams and to come up with the best solutions
  • Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
  • The ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels in a professional manner
  • Experience with prioritising tasks, meeting deadlines and undertaking various administrative duties
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills

Whilst the office base is in London, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location as the role may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

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Why Capgemini Invent?

When you join Capgemini Invent, you don’t just start a new job. You become part of something bigger.

A diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and experts, all working together to unleash human energy through technology, for an inclusive and sustainable future.

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How to Apply

At Capgemini Invent, although academics form part of our overall hiring decisions, we do not screen purely based on academic performance. We will assess your suitability for a role using several tools including video interviewing and virtual  assessment centres.

Applications will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Please apply early as spaces are limited.

Register an Interest in the frog Placement Programme
Register an Interest in the Intelligent Industry Placement Programme

Once your application has been submitted, if successful, you will be invited to a digital interview. Once you have completed your digital interview, if again successful, you will be invited to the final stage of the application process; the virtual assessment day – where you will hear more about the company, the work we do and the placement programme.

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