Don’t panic! It’s never too late to start your job-hunt
If you’ve been putting off your graduate job-hunt because you don’t know where to begin and you think it is too late, now is the time to take stock and get started. It’s never easy to grapple with life’s big decisions. Sometimes even minor, everyday decisions such as ‘where shall we go on Friday night?’, [...]
Career Advice on becoming an Entrepreneur by Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson founded Virgin in 1970 – it started off as a mail order record retailer. Today the Virgin Group is made up of around 200 companies spanning 30 countries with involvements in leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music festivals, finance, health and more. Not bad for a guy who left school [...]
The boss’s assistant can influence the hiring decision
Hiring managers aren’t the only ones applicants need to impress when they arrive for a job interview. Candidates also should be on their toes when greeting the boss’s right-hand person, a new survey shows. Six out of 10 (61 percent) executives polled said they consider their assistant’s opinion important when evaluating potential new hires. The [...]
30 Tips on Job Interview Etiquette
Please remember next time you go for a job interview: 1. Be punctual. 2. Use a firm handshake. 3. Dress accordingly but make sure your clothes don’t steal the show. You need to convince the recruiter with your skills. 4. Address the interviewer by name. Make sure you pronounce their name correctly. 5. Maintain eye contact with the interviewer, but [...]
How twitter got me hired
Twitter is not just for talking about your dog or your lunch. Tens of thousands of businesses are using twitter, quite a few of which are using it to help in their search for new employees – and that means there is some great opportunities to find your perfect job through social media. Traci Koller [...]
The chances of landing a graduate job since the recession? ONE in 270
Up to 270 graduates are battling for every job vacancy after the recession triggered an unprecedented scramble, a study shows today. Applications for graduate posts have hit a record high this year as rejected candidates from 2008 and 2009 swell the ranks of job-seekers. Many firms have faced a recruitment squeeze over the last two [...]
Having a degree in law will open all sorts of doors to you
A law degree is the most versatile of academic qualifications. There is really just one career for a graduate of dental surgery but for law graduates there are multifarious paths to success. Many law graduates proceed to become solicitors or barristers but, equally, many others use the qualification to become successful in commercial life, academic [...]
Graduates – here’s the Good News and the Bad News
Graduates looking for jobs have had it tough for the past two years. All that learning, all that education, only to find that the number of entry-level positions has been declining steadily, even sharply. At last, however, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The good news is that the number of entry-level [...]
Dispatches from the Job-Hunt Front
When, last autumn, we asked four graduates seeking work in different sectors to write a fortnightly diary of their job hunts, we expected them to paint a bleak picture backed by official statistics that suggest unemployment among under-24s is at its highest level since records for this series began in 1992. On the face of [...]
Graduate Job Watch
• Your big break in advertising? According to The UK Graduate Careers Survey, working in the media was the second most-popular destination for the “Class of 2009” — after teaching — and an estimated 40,000 graduates applied to work in advertising, journalism, broadcasting or PR. Yet despite the huge interest in the sector, only a [...]