jon wilmore grb author

Jon studied English And History at the University of Nottingham.

Articles of Jon Wilmore


Yesterday's article highlighted the positive potential of social networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn in the hunt for a graduate job.

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Many British graduates are lacking in global competencies, a recent report suggests. As with many headlines encountered by recent or future graduates, this can appear at first glance to be an ominous...

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Graduate JobsWork

If you are a reader who graduated in July of 2011, you may soon receive or already have received a phone call enquiring as to what exactly it is you're doing with your life several months after you...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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As the new academic year begins, it brings with it all kinds of opportunities, as students return from summers spent (hopefully productively) elsewhere looking to once again make the most of their...

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Before and throughout university, students looking for career advice can often find themself hearing one idea echoed more than most, that of following one's passion, or doing what you love for a...

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As a graduate beginning to look into today's job market it can often be alienating to read the slew of negative reports in the press about job prospects within the current economic climate. Such...

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For students and graduates still hesitant as to what particular career path they wish to undertake, finding out more about specific professions can be difficult. Even the most detailed of research can...

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Careers Fairs

As the academic year draws to a close, graduate recruitment fairs are taking place at universities up and down the country.

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