Student Opportunities Application Form

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Application form

This form is used to capture your details, including your current status, contact details, education and equal opportunities information. This information will be used when processing your applications with employers.

Important - before you go any further! Please read this.

Keele Careers and Employability staff are responsible for shortlisting applicants for consideration for interview and the company usually makes the final decision on whether or offer you an interview. At the end of this application, you will need to upload your CV and cover letter for the role - as advised on the job advert.

It is essential to have an up to date and high quality CV, and your cover letter needs to tailored to the role. We provide help on applications and we advise you to do the following before you submit this application (if you have recently had your CV reviewed, this may not be necessary)

CV help - please use CV360, which is an online CV tool in Keele Careers Online to help you make some improvements, and then book yourself a CV appointment to have your CV reviewed with us once you have made the improvements suggested by CV360.

Cover letter - Your cover letter needs to explain why you are an excellent applicant for the role, and if you need some help with tailoring it to the role, please book an appointment with us - use the CV appointment topic to do this.

If you do not follow the steps above or submit a poor quality application we will let you know however, do be aware that this can cause a delay to your application being considered, or not being shortlisted at all - especially if you apply close to the closing date.

****Important - please ensure you have downloaded a copy of the internship advert as these are removed from the website once the closing date has been reached ***

Privacy Statement

By submitting this information, you acknowledge that the personal data in the application form and accompanying CVs and Covering Letters you have submitted will be processed as per the terms of our Student Privacy Notice, Graduate Privacy Notice, and The Student Knowledge Exchange Notice.

We will use your personal information to:

  • process your applications
  • inform you of vacancies that might be of interest
  • inform you of how we can provide support for applications and career development
  • produce evaluations and case studies following appointment to and successful completion of opportunities.

If you have any questions or want to find out more about how we use your data, please contact studentopportunities@keele.ac.uk

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@keele.ac.uk or by post to Data Protection Officer, Governance Department, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG.

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