UK/NL Quant internships: bypassing university agreement?
Realize this is a pretty niche question, but hoping someone has experience with this.
Hey all, I'm studying at a French target but hold both UK and French passports. I'm wondering about the logistics for summer quant internships in London and Amsterdam.
Because I have full working rights in both regions and don't need visa sponsorship, is it possible/normal to just sign a regular fixed-term employment contract and completely bypass the formal university agreement (convention de stage)? This is a voluntary summer stint, so I don't need school credits.
Has anyone dealt with this? Will HR force the university agreement just to check a box, or can they drop it? I know labor laws differ between the UK and NL, so I'm curious if requiring a formal university agreement is a strict legal rule for quant summer interns in these countries, or if it's purely firm-dependent. Thanks!