Monday is not my favourite day of the week especially when it happens to be my first day back at work after a holiday. This Monday morning was more depressing than most and I am not just talking about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
If someone googled you right now what would they find? A less than flattering image, or perhaps an obscene status? Now what happens if it's a potential employer? Yes, employers have Facebook too.
Many large graduate recruiters now take, and often insist on, applications online. In a lot of cases, prospective employees are able to upload other documents, like a CV or covering letter.
We're sitting there having a conversation about intellectual property and how it relates to social media and potential piracy of the Internet, his new boss says. He's facing me, and as we're talking,...
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...
In 1997 Apple launched a new ad slogan to help shift their products. The promotion proved to be something of a success, going on to win the 1998 Emmy Award for Best Commercial, and marking the...
Female graduates in Scotland are still missing out on top jobs to male counterparts, according to a report published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission this week.
New graduates concerned about their prospects in the highly competitive UK employment market should not view graduate schemes as the be all and end all of job hunting, an expert has claimed.
Speaking at a conference recently Sir Stuart Rose, the Marks & Spencer chief executive, warned employers not to use the recession as an excuse to cut graduate placements. He explained that M&S have...
