The Graduate job market can be extremely competitive. Having spent the majority of your time studying, chances are you will have very similar experience to your competitors. Other than showcasing your degree results how can you distinguish yourself and make your CV stand out from the crowd? Reports have shown that the average time spent …
What to do after you Graduate? If you’re one of the many people about to graduate University this year you are probably in the middle of exam cramming and dissertation hell! The final year of a degree takes up all of your time (well with a few breaks to have a pint in the student …
6 Useful Tips to go from Graduate to Employee: So you’ve spent the last 3 years in lectures, stressing about your dissertation and cramming for those final exams. You finally have your degree (or you’re pretty close) and it feels like the only way to show employers that you are suitable for the role you’re …
A lot has been written about looking for work, the CV, cover letter, sources of job postings, use of Social Media, etc, but we don’t see much about the kind of preparations and decision making that you have to engage in before you actually start looking for a job. This can either be a first …
All UK regions benefit greatly from a skilled and educated workforce and in these challenging times of greater mobility it is the task of the universities, local authorities and local employers to capture as much local regional talent as is possible. There are usually two strands to this: the talent that originated from a particular …
Job seeking today can be a soul destroying task with, at times, so many candidates chasing so few openings. You should be prepared to take setbacks but the secret here is to keep focussed and keep pursuing openings. Your preparation traditionally has been ensuring your resume is eye catching and up to date plus the …
Your search for that coveted job starts whilst you are at University and not when you finally graduate. You can breakdown Employers into two defined groups. Those that want graduates who are both skilled and highly technical and those who have got a more generalist degree. Whichever group you belong to its not just your …
It wasn’t so long ago that job seekers excluded Facebook as a source of jobs but now days that is changing rapidly as Facebook jobs opportunities are on the rise. It seems incredible that in an age where one in every seven minutes online is spent on Facebook and, where over half of people actively …
A job interview is the final stage when you have an opportunity to impress a potential employer. Failing this task usually means the end of the road for that job opportunity. Job seeking can be a confusing and uninspiring task that can quickly drain your enthusiasm and positive outlook. However, there are several simple actions …
After a job setback the only way for you to go is forward, with positivity. Everyone fails from time to time. If you don’t put yourself in position to possibly fail then you aren’t putting yourself in position to enjoy great success either. As Wayne Gretzky used to say “you can’t score if you don’t shoot.” …