How The Intake works, and the things worth knowing before you plan an application around a deadline.
What is The Intake?
- The Intake is a free, independent tracker for UK and Ireland graduate schemes, internships, industrial placements and spring weeks in technology, finance and consulting, and training contracts, vacation schemes, insight days and paralegal roles in law. It shows what is open, when it closes, and links straight to the real application. It needs no account to browse (saving applications to your tracker takes a free one), and it is not owned by or affiliated with any of the employers listed on it.
Do these schemes have closing dates?
- Most of them do not, and that is worth knowing before you plan around one. Nearly every employer here recruits on a rolling basis, so the advert comes down when the cohort is full rather than on a published date. That is why each listing shows when it was posted: on a rolling scheme, how long the advert has already been up is the number that tells you how much time you have left. Where an employer does publish a closing date we read it from their own system and show it.
How do you know a listing is still open?
- Every listing is read from the employer's own recruitment system rather than from a repost, and each page carries the date we last confirmed it there. When a role disappears from their system the intake leaves the tracker, and its page stays up saying it is no longer listed instead of breaking the link you saved.
How is this different from other trackers?
- Two things. The deadlines are read from each employer's own recruitment system and re-checked daily, so the Apply button goes to the exact application rather than to a careers homepage you then have to search. And every listing carries the date we last confirmed it at that source, so you can see how fresh it is rather than taking our word for it.
Which employers and roles do you cover?
- Technology, finance, consulting and law early careers in the UK and Ireland: graduate schemes, summer internships, industrial placements, spring weeks, and law’s own training contracts, vacation schemes, insight days and paralegal roles. Dublin counts because students in the UK apply there as a matter of course. Finance covers banking, markets, asset management, insurance and broking, actuarial and accounting work. Consulting means consulting and professional services: strategy and management consulting, technology consulting, economic consulting, and the graduate programmes of the Big Four and mid-tier firms in audit, tax, deals and consulting. Law means solicitors’ firms: the training contract is the graduate scheme and the vacation scheme is the internship, so law keeps its own words rather than borrowing anybody else’s. We are adding employers as each part of the market is wired up, so the list grows through the season rather than arriving complete.
Why does an employer's page say nothing is open?
- Because there is genuinely nothing open there right now, and we would rather say so than invent a role. The page stays up so a link you saved still works and so it is ready the day that employer publishes their next intake. Companies recruit in waves, so a page that is empty in the summer is often busy by the autumn.
How many emails will I get?
- Only what you signed up for. A short digest on Mondays if you asked for it: what opened, what changed and what is closing. With Premium, and during every account's free week: an email the morning a role opens in your sectors, and a note three days before a role you saved, looked at or have in your switches closes, or the morning a saved role comes off the employer's board. We do not sell or share your address, and every email carries a one-press unsubscribe.
Is The Intake free for students?
- Yes. The listings, the tracker, search and the Monday digest are free and always will be, and every account gets Premium for seven days, free, no card. We do not sell your email address to the employers listed.
Do I get Premium free?
- Yes, for seven days, with no card and nothing to press: a new account from the day it is made, an existing account from its next signed-in visit. During the week you get the morning email and the closing notes, and the site tells you the day it ends. Nothing renews. After the week your account goes back to the free tier unless you choose a plan, and everything free stays exactly as it was.
Is there a paid version?
- There is a Premium tier: £4.99 a month, cancel any time, or £19 for the whole season, one payment, until 31 July 2027. Prices include VAT where it applies. Everything the site does today stays free and always will: the listings, the tracker, your account and the weekly digest. Premium adds what the free tracker cannot tell you: an email the morning something opens, a note before a role closes, what each employer has said about visa sponsorship for its programmes, filters that hide the roles your year of study, your grade or your visa status has already ruled you out of, filters by city and by closing date, and how long other applicants have waited at each stage of an intake. Every account gets it for seven days, free, no card. See /premium for the full detail.
Where does the visa sponsorship information come from?
- Three places, kept separate. The role's own advert, when it says so ("visa sponsorship is not available for this role"), is shown on the role page. The licence status, part of Premium, comes from the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, joined to our employer list by legal name and dated with the register's own publication date; a licence means the organisation may sponsor, not that a particular programme comes with a visa. The programme-level statements, also part of Premium, come from employers' own careers pages, quoted with the page and the day we read them. None of it is immigration advice.
How do I cancel Premium, and can I get a refund?
- Cancel a monthly plan any time from your account page with one press; it then runs to the end of the month you already paid for and nothing more is taken. The season pass is a single payment that does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel: it simply covers you until it ends. Access starts the moment you pay. Change your mind within 14 days of paying and you get a full refund: reply to any email from us. If something is broken or not as described, email jointheintake@gmail.com and it is put right or refunded through Stripe, our payment provider, to the card you paid with. Full terms are on /legal.
What happens when the season pass ends?
- It covers you until 31 July 2027, with nothing to renew and nothing charged again after that. Your account then goes back to the free tier automatically: the listings, the tracker and the weekly digest carry on exactly as before, and you can buy another plan if you want the Premium features back.
Does the free tracker change once someone has Premium?
- No. The listings, the tracker, your account and the weekly digest work exactly the same whether or not you are a Premium member. Premium only adds the extra things listed above; it never takes anything away from the free tier.
I found something wrong. How do I report it?
- Email jointheintake@gmail.com. Corrections are the most useful thing you can send: if a listing is wrong, out of date, or points somewhere it should not, tell us and it gets fixed, usually the same day.