… time, if you so choose.Living the dream.But, what happens when the dream comes to an end? Most undergraduate courses last a measly three years, some manage to stretch it out to four or five.Eventually, you…
… being slightly melodramatic, however a commonly cited statistic that 'around three quarters of large graduate employers routinely use the 2:1 to sift applications' is enough to ensure that students are…
… contemporaries - that the only path for a history student is into teaching history, that English graduates will inevitably find themselves regurgitating all that knowledge of Shakespeare, compiled over…
…The end of the academic year is fast approaching and for those that have already secured a graduate job, congratulations! For those that are yet to, don't despair. Post graduation, this could very well be the time when…
…e back of the revelation of a double-dip recession and fresh concerns about the state of our fragile economy, graduates are facing an increasingly turbulent job climate in which their degrees are devalued.
… may be a cliche, this saying rings true, since there is no better way of finding out whether a graduate job is right for you, than gaining a real taste of the working life.
…Ah, the unpaid internship: scourge of the fairness and equality in the graduate recruitment market, a manipulative abuse of desperate jobseekers in what is very much an employers' market
Graduate recruitment is an odd process. Employers are - to put it bleakly - there to make sure that if you're not the very best candidate for the job, you don't get it.
…Recent statistics have shown (from a study of 1,730 students) that a mere 19% of graduates thought about their future career before starting their university course.
