Careers and Placements offers employers a range of opportunities to engage and connect with students through the provision of on-campus and virtual events.
All event bookings are made subject to the following terms and conditions being agreed to in full.
For in-person events:
For virtual events
The University of York reserves the right to cancel careers fairs and associated events without refund where conditions arise beyond our reasonable control.
By registering for our fairs, you're committing to attend the fair, pending our approval. This means you will be subject to paying for any late cancellation charges.
If you cancel your booking:
The University of York will advertise careers-related events to students on your behalf, such as networking events, virtual employer presentations and skills seminars. Please register with our central careers portal, Handshake, to add and promote these. This service is provided free of charge and you can find out more about this through Handshake’s How to Request an Event help article.
All events require approval from Careers and Placements. We seek to advertise only the most appropriate and valuable events and reserve the right to decline advertising any event which we deem to not meet the best interests of our students. These include, but are not limited to:
Careers and Placements at the University of York will support employers to promote your organisation and opportunities by helping you to advertise UK and overseas based:
In our duty of care to students and graduates, we will seek clarification regarding any aspect of a vacancy, and reserve the right not to advertise opportunities which we reasonably believe not to be in the best interests of our students and graduates. In particular, we reserve the right not to advertise vacancies, or continue working with employers if vacancies:
The University accepts no liability for the actions of students or graduates recruited from the University of York.
Please note:
We ask that you:
We encourage employers to treat all candidates equally, to assess their applications on merit and suitability for the job alone, and to address right to work issues at the last stage of the selection processes. While stating that “at the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK” is acceptable, sentences such as “applicants must have a work permit” or “applicants must have the right to work in the UK” are not.
For an overview of the Equality Act 2010, see ACAS guidance here and the Government Code of Practice for Employers “Avoiding Discrimination while Preventing Illegal Working"(April 2022).
Recruiting International Students
University of York Careers and Placements are eager to ensure that we provide students with information about career opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to all. We are therefore committed to working with employers and alumni who reflect our student body and who our students can identify with. This means that we may ask you to volunteer a member of your team that has a particular protected characteristic to represent your organisation during your event in order to increase the diversity of our events programme.
Careers and Placements Service Standards (PDF , 176kb)
Please read our Privacy Statement - Employers 2021 (PDF , 63kb).
Please read our Careers and Placements Ethics Statement