Hosting a student.

We place a small number of university students with companies that can give one of them real work for four to sixteen weeks. We do the screening before you see a name, draft the visa letter for your signature, sort the student's housing, and stay their point of contact for the whole placement. What we need from you is a defined piece of work and someone to supervise it.

At a glance
Length
4 to 16 weeks
Cities
HK · SG · SH · BKK
Cost to you
Nothing
Paperwork
We draft, you sign
From you
Work and a supervisor

What hosting is

A placement is one student sitting with your team for four to sixteen weeks, on a piece of work you actually need done and can hand to one person: a model, a market read, a feature, a campaign, the first version of a process. It has an owner on your side who checks in, reviews the result, and writes a short reference at the end.

The students are at university. We talk to every student before we go looking for a seat, and we only introduce someone when the work and the person fit.


What we ask of you, and what we handle.

What we ask of a host

  • A scoped piece of work that one student can finish in the time, with a clear result at the end.
  • A supervisor who reviews the work and gives a reference at the end. Not a full-time minder.
  • A signature on the visa letter we draft, on your letterhead.
  • A desk and a start date. The student arrives before the start date, so the first day is a real first day.

What we handle

  • The search and the first call, before any name reaches you.
  • The visa paperwork: the letter, the checklist for your city, the timing.
  • The student's housing, their first week in the city, and a person they can call.
  • A check-in with you partway through, and the reference request at the end.

The visa letter

For most placements the student's visa or permit depends on a letter from the host: who the student is, what they'll be doing, the dates, and who supervises them. We draft it from the brief you've agreed, you check it, and you sign it on your letterhead.


Who we place

They're at university and early in their careers. You'll be supervising and teaching as they go — the work is scoped to a level they can actually reach — and we're honest with you about each student: what we're sure of, and what we're not.

Working fluency in the field. A finance student can build the model, an engineer can read a codebase they didn't write, a marketer can write the brief.
Something finished. A project, a previous internship, a piece of writing with readers.
Judgement. They ask before assuming, say when something is wrong, and don't need to be told twice.
A reason to be in your city. Curiosity about how business works where you are, not just a line for a CV.

Hosting is free.

There's no fee from you and no salary to budget — the student isn't joining your payroll. Our end is covered by the placement fee the student pays. Hosting costs you a desk, and the time your supervisor spends on the work.

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