'Skills' Blog Posts

The thought of learning a foreign language may prompt nightmarish flashbacks to the dismal days of French lessons at school, however may also open...

There is a growing trend among recruiters, who are faced with an ever increasing number of applications, to look beyond technical qualifications.

There is no doubt that applications for graduate jobs are challenging, especially due to the number of tests that need to be taken before even getting...

Ah, the unpaid internship: scourge of the fairness and equality in the graduate recruitment market, a manipulative abuse of desperate jobseekers in...

On the eve of the launch of the government's social mobility strategy, Labour leader Ed Miliband called for a rejection of what he deems the...

After eighteen years of living under Mum and Dad's rule of thumb, most teens would agree a large part of the appeal of university is moving out and...

University is inevitably not only a place to study and have fun, but also to help get your desired graduate job.

There is no substitute for experience. Although this may be a cliche, this saying rings true, since there is no better way of finding out whether a...

On the back of the revelation of a double-dip recession and fresh concerns about the state of our fragile economy, graduates are facing an...

You will not be surprised to hear that tests form a major part of the application process for graduate jobs.

I recently listening to the podcast entitled 'Making it in marketing, sales, advertising and PR', where Nicolas Roope founder and creative director of...

Word on the street - which is old talk for the internet - is that getting ahead in securing the best graduate jobs requires a dash of originality. And...

They've got a London address, they gave me a phone interview, and they popped up on a graduate recruitment portal - they must be legit, right?

Throughout your life you have been working towards some kind of qualification or end goal and so you may not have had the time to stop and think about...

I'm extremely creative, organised and highly numerate. Do you believe me? You shouldn't. Why? Because I haven't given you any reason to.

This week I'm going to offer some suggestions as to why Marco Erzinger, a graduate who describes himself as 'someone with a good degree from a...

The Powers That Be may not approve of any suggestions which advise in the ways of covert CV improvement, but I feel honour-bound to impart the minimal...

I read an article earlier today about the black hole that is 'The Feedback Deficit' which often haunts students like a poltergeist with too much free...

Choosing a degree is inevitably a difficult decision but once you have developed greater knowledge of a subject, you will be well equipped with...

When you are looking for new initiatives to help with graduate jobs to share with your friends, it can be quite helpful when a major event is taking...