Webinar: How the University of Liverpool improved student employability skills by 38% using Micro-Internships by Springpod

In this webinar, we'll uncover the challenges facing careers teams today and how to successfully deliver solutions that scale.

About This Webinar

Careers teams are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality employer experiences that engage students and prove impact with limited time and resources. These teams are all facing similar challenges:

- Demonstrating ROI, impact and outcomes of their efforts
- Finding solutions that are both affordable and scalable
- Bridging the gap between students and potential employers

In this webinar, we’ll be speaking with Iwan Williams, Director of Careers at the University of Liverpool, about their Micro-Internship programme, powered by Springpod. We’ll explore how the programme solves some of the biggest challenges careers teams are facing and how to implement these models at scale.

By joining this webinar, you’ll gain:

- Actionable insight on delivering meaningful employer experiences at scale
- Learnings supported not only by data, but real student perspectives
- Knowledge on how to prove impact and outcomes both internally and externally
- A proven example of engaging with more a diverse mix of students
- Honest reflections on what worked, what didn’t, and what could be done differently

The topic of this webinar was also delivered live at the Graduate Future Institute Leadership Conference in January and has been created for those who were unable to attend.

Attend live to get your questions answered or, if you can't make the time, register now to watch on demand at a time that suits you!

Agenda

The employability challenges careers teams are currently facing
How the University of Liverpool introduced a model to fill these gaps
What implementation looked like in practice
Measurable outcomes on what matters most
Reflections on lessons learned and what comes next
Audience Q&A

Springpod

Andy Dillow

COO of Springpod

Andy is COO of Springpod, a career education scale-up on a mission to give every student access to meaningful experiences with top employers and educators. Trained as a strategic change manager with Accenture and Credit Suisse, he’s since built multiple edtech ventures bridging education and early careers. Passionate about equal access, he’s led Springpod to support 1.5M+ students, creating £200M+ in social value. A father of three, he loves sport, endurance events, and innovation. His claim to fame is that in his spare time he likes to tinker with product development and has a patent for inventing a reusable bath bomb, which he licensed to Crayola in the US. He has been the chair of governors at his children’s primary school and sits on the board of a non profit in New York called WIBO that provides entrepreneurship training in underserved communities. Father of 3 loons. Love any and all sport, but now mainly just endurance events to combat my love of food.

Oliver Fisher

Co-founder and CPO of Springpod

Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Springpod, a work-based learning platform on a mission to ignite ambition, power potential, and kick-start careers. Springpod gives every student direct access to meaningful career education experiences, connecting young people with top employers and educators to bring the world of work and study to life anytime and anywhere.
With over one million enrolments worldwide, Springpod delivers career readiness at scale — building skilled, confident young people while creating powerful talent pipelines that convert. Oliver brings more than 15 years of experience in digital product development across insurance, content, and education, and works closely with customers to design innovative solutions that tackle real challenges and unlock opportunity for the next generation.

Iwan Williams

Director of Careers and Employability at the University of Liverpool

Iwan Williams is the Director of Careers and Employability at the University of Liverpool, providing strategic leadership for an inclusive, impactful, and digitally-enabled careers offer. He leads the development of an employability vision embedded across the curriculum, alongside an engaging extracurricular programme that encourages students to try new experiences and build meaningful connections. As head of the sector-leading Career Studio, he ensures it remains an open and accessible space, supported by a team of student Career Coaches delivering expert guidance. Committed to innovation and enhancing student outcomes, Iwan drives new approaches to engagement, strengthens existing provision, and initiates change to support the University’s strategic goals. Prior to this role, he worked as an Employability Business Partner at the University of Liverpool and as a Careers Adviser at Liverpool Hope University, with ten years’ experience supporting children and young people across primary, secondary, and post-16 further education, including community-based outreach.

Vedant Gaikwad

Student at University of Liverpool

Vedant Gaikwad is a Computer Science postgraduate student at the University of Liverpool with five years of entrepreneurial experience bridging business strategy and technical execution. He recently completed an AI Consulting micro-internship with Accenture through Springpod, designing an AI-powered customer onboarding solution for a Tier-2 UK bank that reduced onboarding time from days to minutes. Alongside his studies, he has co-founded a digital marketing agency and conducted data-driven business analysis using Python, SQL, Excel, and Power BI. He is completing an MSc in Computer Science with an industry placement year and is seeking graduate opportunities in consulting, business analysis, data analytics, or technical strategy from Summer or Autumn 2026.