Ucademy hires from its own student network - nine hires so far, for the newsletter, app development, Instagram and YouTube. The reason is evidence: the company already knows how these students work, which is more than any CV shows. For students it is a route into real work while studying, and the piece is an open invitation to say you are interested rather than wait for an advert.

In the next few years, I am looking to expand Ucademy and I want to do this by hiring from our existing student network. Ucademy has already made 9 hires from this pool in the last few years to work on a variety of tasks like this weekly newsletter, app development, Instagram feed, Youtube channel etc...

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Considering we have such a stringent policy when hiring from the outside, making 10 hires per 900 job applications on average, student hires are specially valuable to me. I look for them to show:

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  • Desire
  • Intelligence
  • Willingness to learn
  • Alignment to my core values of honesty, diligence, trust, and doing their level best
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Some of these student-turned employees already receive specialist mentoring and discounted or paid for external services such as courses for universities. In the future, we hope to take it a step further and pay for a part of a degree or even the whole thing.

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If you read these newsletters you know what I stand for. You know how much we have to do to raise the standards within the community. So I am looking for students who think they have an entrepreneurial spirit within them. We reach an audience of 10,000+, we do 6 figures annually and we do 1000s of hours of pro-bono work.

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We want to take this to the next level.

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So if you are a student who has an interest in coding, analysing business/learning about businesses, designing, or writing. Hit me up with a few words or a short video about why you would like to be considered for a role within Ucademy.

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We promise meaningful work, flexibility around your studies, amazing perks, good pay, and an inside track on the changes we make to education in the UK and worldwide.

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So please email a cover letter or a short video across to:

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[email protected] and cc [email protected] with the subject line “Junior Application – [YOUR NAME]”.

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P.S: We will keep applications open till after exams finish in a few weeks as we don’t want our year 11s and 13s to miss out on this opportunity.

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