Internships and work placements can provide much richer pickings for young people from well-educated, well-connected families.
The employees are all long-term unemployed people on state-funded work placements, in the hope of finding permanent work afterwards.
"I very much hope that these work placements will give me hands-on experience in three very different but important areas, " he said.
One in three entry-level jobs are being taken by graduates who have already worked for a company - such as in work placements.
Universities and business must do more to meet demand among students for doing work placements and internships during a degree, he will stress.
The enterprising Ms Ruddock persuaded seven businesses - in finance, fashion, architecture, art and publishing - to offer work placements which she could auction.
There are also indications that an increasing number of vacancies are being taken by applicants who have carried out work placements with an employer.
We must give students a financial reason to choose engineering at university - that means more scholarships, more fast-track courses and guaranteed work placements.
The scheme will also encourage more paid work placements during terms.
Mr Milburn's report highlighted work placements as a new rung on the career ladder that makes life hard for people who cannot afford to work for peanuts.
Activities include a physical boot camp and lessons on business pitching and a number of paid apprenticeships and work placements are offered at the end of the course.
They will also take part in work placements with the city's port, cruise and marine companies, as well as other big companies in the area, such as Ikea.
In one case, students were sent off to so-called work placements in locations up to 280 miles away from the college where they were supposed to be studying on a regular basis.
Though it is taking longer than expected to get the unemployed into work placements, the New Deal so far seems to be overcoming its main obstacle: the scepticism among employers and the unemployed that has resulted from the failure of past training schemes to lead to real jobs.
Mr Duncan Smith argued that "most young people love" their work experience placements.
More than 100 training courses and work experience placements will be offered.
The charity said 50 volunteers, including many with mental health issues or learning disabilities, would also lose their work experience placements at their depot.
Contributing to the debate, Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott welcomed the introduction of the Youth Contract by the UK government which includes voluntary work experience placements for young people in Wales.
What may unnerve ministers most is that Tesco has come out against the government's welfare rule which states that benefits can be cut for people whose work experience placements do not proceed well.
As well as core subjects such as maths and languages, students can also do work experience and voluntary placements.
It is, they say, taking contractors longer and, sometimes, several placements to find sustainable work for the unemployed.
Originally founded with the idea of matching working mothers with challenging, highly skilled jobs, the company has grown to include placements for men and women in a variety of work assignments.
Some 80% of employers confirmed they were offering paid work experience for students and recent graduates and over half were providing industrial placements up to a year long.
Some schools have come to terms with the idea that finding full-time work for all graduates might be unrealistic and are creating new schemes to find temporary placements for graduating MBAs.
The placements last for up to eight weeks, with up to 30 hours of work a week.
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