STEM Returners Programmes
STEM Returners United Kingdom
UK service that places experienced STEM professionals back into engineering and technical work through paid, short-term returner placements with coaching and mentoring.
Free to start · no account needed
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: paid short-term placements with STEM employers; career coaching; mentoring and peer networking.
Who can apply: For experienced STEM professionals returning after a break, and some people moving into STEM from other fields; each placement lists its own requirements.
Placements with different employers open throughout the year. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: cv.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “paid opportunities for professionals returning to STEM”
Who can apply
- Open to working professionals, people in a career transition
- For experienced STEM professionals returning after a break, and some people moving into STEM from other fields; each placement lists its own requirements.
What you will need
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to STEM Returners without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.