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What do employers want from graduates?
The latest Global University Employability Ranking has been released with the most predictive factor of graduate employability being professional experience alongside a ...
As a recent graduate, you may be zoning in on those FTSE 100 companies, but with few opportunities per graduate and COVID in our midst, targeting a Small to Medium Ente ...
With the number of graduate jobs available having fallen by 12%, the largest fall in graduate recruitment since 2008/9, and with the majority of employers anticipating ...
A survey by Prospects on the effects of COVID19 on graduate recruitment found that, of final-year university students, 26% had lost their work placement/internship, 29% ...
Personal branding is the process of optimising and managing the way you are presented to others. With qualifications becoming less valuable, and more and more appl ...
In-tray exercises simulate a fast-paced office environment where you are required to make a number of judgements and decisions quickly. You’ll be presented with a fic ...
Alongside formal assessment, graduate schemes may also involve social events, especially if you’ve travelled and are staying overnight in an unfamiliar city. They off ...
University is a great way for you to build your skills (both soft skills and more specific ones) and set you apart from your peers. But how do you know what skills you ...
Gaining a humanities degree takes hard work, time and dedication, so it’s important that you think carefully about what career you want to pursue after you graduate. ...
They say that finding a position after university is the hardest job a graduate can do and if this is you right now remember that you are not alone! You’ve sent off h ...
After initial assessments and interviews, an assessment day is the next, and often last, step in any graduate recruitment journey. On an assessment day you’ll be brou ...
This summer, you'll leap out of university and the golden days of relaxing and chilling are going to end. After that much needed break the obvious question is going to ...
As part of a graduate job interview you’re often asked to deliver a short presentation either to the interview group or to a panel. You’ll either be given a specifi ...
Image credit: m00by/flickr Graduation is upon us, and with our Facebook and Twitter feeds strewn with pride, joy and surprise it can be a little demoralising if you fa ...
When you started uni you probably didn’t think further than graduation, and now it’s come around faster than you could ever have imagined. ...