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The other day I was talking to a graduate and he said ‘there are not many jobs at this time of year are there?’ Actually May and June are the months when the Careers Service gets the most ads. Today we have 637 full-time vacancies live on CareersLink. That’s more than any of the major…
Read more Spring into action – it’s a great time to look for jobs
Why not swap your copy of Hello for Drapers Record or the Economist? Magazines, periodicals, journals, e-zines, (call them what you will) are a really good way to find out information to make you stand out at application and interview. Employers really want you to understand the industry or sector they work in. (commercial awareness)…
STOP PRESS (22/4/13) Sorry to announce that we’ve had to cancel/postpone (most of) these events – the number of people who signed up didn’t make them viable. However, as far as I know, the Placements session will still go ahead, as it’s part of a longer programme that day, specifically for the museums and arts…
Lately I have been talking to many EU graduates who are widening their job searches beyond their home country and taking advantage of their right to work in other EU nations. Just this week I spent a very interesting afternoon learning about German CV and covering letter protocols to give feedback on a science postdoc…
Who expects the graduate job market to bounce back this year? Dr Charlie Ball at HECSU (the closest thing to a Graduate Labour Market Statistics Guru that I know) predicts … well, more of the same, at least in the first half of the year in his latest blog post – modest growth in some…
Those of you looking at internships and graduate schemes last semester will have noticed that there were a lot of big names recruiting. Some of you may have found this off-putting. Big corporates and “graduate schemes” are not for everyone. In fact most people wont join a graduate scheme, they will find other entry routes into…
Read more Graduate schemes not for you? Looking for something different?
Just a quick blog post to point out that we’ve had over 100 new ads uploaded to CareersLink in the past week – and that’s full-time jobs, not part-time Santa jobs. Some of the ads look like employers are re-advertising graduate scheme roles, so if you want to get on one of those prestigious training…
There seems to have been a remarkably high number of ads coming into the Careers Service recently, given the general state of the job market, so I’ve updated my graph showing how many job ads have been advertised month by month on CareersLink (University of Manchester login required). It really does show the improvement in…
