Some CV advice this week: if you are an ugly man, or a rather pretty woman, don't bother attaching a picture to your graduate CV. According to researchers who have been investigating the effect of...
Is work experience really that important? Yes it is. A recent business survey featuring over 700 university graduates revealed that 75% of these graduates found that work experience was invaluable to...
When researching their future prospects, students could be forgiven for garnering a pretty bleak image of the graduate recruitment market and their own position within it. Increasingly commonplace are...
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that there are now almost one million people under the age of 25 out of work and there are 2.57 million people overall out of work. Fewer than a...
The Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is said to be taking advantage of record high youth unemployment after he began advertising last week for graduates to work full-time at his parliamentary office as...
A recent company survey revealed that out of 1,000 graduate recruiters, 97% said they valued a positive attitude over the right skills and experience. Rejoice because having the right skills and...
With the graduate recruitment market as competitive as ever, this year more than any has seen unpaid internships as a route into graduate employment come to the fore. A recent survey on the matter saw...
A recent survey has showed that of the 679 graduates surveyed who had attended university, two thirds of those in a graduate job believed their degree played a very important part in them landing...
So you've recently graduated, or will do at some point next year, and the world of paid employment awaits you. This sounds like a warm and fuzzy proposition: you can probably picture yourself now, sat...
First piece of advice for anyone considering a postgraduate degree, be absolutely sure. A postgraduate degree is an extreme commitment and it is not something that you should be considering if you are...
We are all aware that the current employment market is extremely tough and getting onto a good graduate scheme is even tougher. However there are a few things that all students can do to make things...
A recent survey of some of the UK's largest graduate recruiters saw three in four of those polled claim that students are increasingly leaving university without the necessary skills to make a...
The pressure is on for the thousands of students going back to or starting university this year, as recent statistics found by The Centre for Economics and Business Research have showed that six...
It is estimated that more than a million young people are now unemployed in Britain. The figures have been swollen by the number of graduates and school-leavers who have failed to find work after...
I have just returned from a cruise to the Mediterranean. I didn't buy presents but I did bring back the fantastic Indian Summer that everyone in England enjoyed at the weekend. Seriously, the...
Would you rather be a fish in a pond or a shark in a tank? Or put differently, would you rather work for a large company or for a small business? Students often opt for the large corporation and with...
A friend of mine recently worked for my University, contacting recent graduates to find out what they were doing during the year after their graduation. Naturally, I enquired as to what those who like...
This month's REC JobsOutlook survey confirms that 93 per cent of clients are satisfied or very satisfied with the performance of the recruitment agencies they use.
