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If you're a small to medium-sized business, we understand it's often a struggle to quickly access resources during peak activity or at the crucial stage of projects. Unisource enables you to do just that with access to an otherwise unavailable resource!
Register and create a post requesting a service
Receive proposals through our notification service
Review proposals and select from bids received
Communicate with students and start benefiting from their knowledge
Among other skills, Businesses need savvy people with skills in social media marketing, graphic design, market research and focus groups, events, database management, data processing or recruitment and training.
Flexibility and feedback
A business can accept one or multiple proposals for the same request. Reviews can be left by either party when the task has been completed.
Save time
By connecting you directly with academics, Unisource streamlines the process and reduces the time and cost it takes to source support for tasks.
Short and long-term benefits
This free resource allows quick access to fresh talent, happy to work remotely, and the ability to network with potential future employees in the process.
Culture shift
With 47%* of businesses using part-timers or freelancers in their business in the last year, this signifies increasing recognition of the benefits of more agile resourcing for projects and tasks. We protect business confidentiality by removing company names from posts to avoid competitors seeing your tasks.
of business owners spent time doing tasks that didn’t directly relate to growing their company.
said they spend 70% or more of their time doing menial and administerial tasks.
The Unisource platform can give precious time back to enable organisations to focus on tasks that can actually help to grow business, rather than doing tasks which can be outsourced to third parties for a fraction of the cost.
Unisource gives businesses free access to, and experience of, graduates before they leave university. This can create valuable relationships and cut future recruitment costs. What’s more, Unisource graduates will already know your business.
Factors that make the work experience valuable include the authenticity of the work completed, preparation for placement both academically and personally, debrief after placement that focuses on learning, supervision and focus on the integration of theory and practice.
*Research conducted with 250 SMEs (five employees or less) in manufacturing, retail and leisure Dec 2019.
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