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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…
