Thinking of a Gap Year? Try a ‘Leap’ Year Instead
Thousands of graduates will pack their rucksacks and head for Thailand this Summer, searching for a new experience after those stressful finals. But instead of travelling abroad for a gap year, why not look closer to home and plunge yourself into an experience that could transform your life – a leap year with City Year. [...]
Leading Employers to Hire More New Graduates in 2013, Says Survey
There will be more jobs for new graduates in 2013, a survey of leading employers suggests. The latest High Fliers study suggests that top employers plan to hire 18,306 graduates in 2013, some 2.7% more than last year. In addition employers will provide paid work experience places for 11,387 students and new graduates. The report [...]
10 Things Every Graduate Should Know Before They Start Job Hunting
If the 370,000 students set to graduate from UK universities this summer know just one thing, it’s that the party is over. Figures from employment website Totaljobs show one in three graduates is claiming jobseeker’s allowance and a quarter of graduates haven’t had a single interview. Huge numbers of roles posted on graduate “job boards” [...]
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?’, [...]
I Want to be a Journalist, But I Can’t Afford to Work for Free
“I want to be a journalist, but I can’t afford to work for free.” A simple sentence, but it has taken me four years to find the words and confidence to write it. I am a final year journalism student at the London College of Fashion, and in my fourth year of unpaid internships. I [...]
Following the yellow brick road: the graduate job hunt
As you’re dusting off the confetti from graduation, clicking through photos of your summer parties and winding down from the summer fare, your attention will undoubtedly turn to life as a graduate employee. Here is our shortlist of the first steps to make sure you’re on track to land a role you not only need, [...]
The truth about unpaid internships
Unpaid internships are not the sort of experience we offer, here at Give A Grad A Go. However, many websites and organisations play on the crisis and recession in order to gain graduates as part of their workforce. When do you draw the line between ‘work experience’ and actually taking on someone’s workload? What are [...]
How to best advertise yourself on social media for your graduate job hunt
Many careers advisers and recruitment specialists will tell you that it is crucial to hold an online presence in order to boost your applications and covering letters. However, what they fail to specify is exactly how you should go about this; it’s all fine and well telling you to make your profile private and be [...]
What to do if you get a 2:2?
As your exams are wrapping up and you’re starting to ponder about results day, some of you may feel as far from a 2:1 as you feel from Freshers’ Week, all that time ago. You’re not alone – many finalists feel the same way, at the prospect of getting results dished out. Did you revise [...]
The benefits of internship programmes for companies, graduates and students
Internship culture, once a process typically associated with eager North American students wanting to get a foot on the career ladder, has made its way to the UK and seems to be the go-to buzzword with grads and companies alike, over the past two years. Whereas some argue that unpaid internships are unfair, unlawful and [...]