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Great Places Housing
Think you could carve yourself a career in housing?

Showsec
Start your career in events...

BBT
Opportunities Abroad | Global Reach - Local Focus

SF Group
Are you looking for a career in sales?

Hays Finance Technology
Technical Research Consultant Graduate Programme

Autosmart
Graduate Opportunities at Autosmart International

E-Financial Careers
Trade your way to being a Portfolio Manager

Autosmart

Cima
CIMA open days

Unipart
Graduate Opportunities at Unipart Group

Government Statistical Services
Excellent opportunities with the Government Statistical Service

Contact Singapore
Find out about the Singapore Work Holiday Programme

Gear for Graduates Summer 2008
Technology to ease and enhance job hunting

Become a media mogul
How to succeed in the media industry

CV spells trouble
Ensure your CV is at its best

Mind the gap
Making the transition to working life

HIt your target!
If you think all you need for a career in sales is a shiny suit, a smooth patter and a fixed grin, you couldn't be more wrong

Gear for Graduates
Paul Johnson tests the latest technology to find some of the best gear for job hunting, work and play

Engineering the right career
There's more to engineering than just solving problems

Competency-based interviews
Picture it!

Shop 'Til you drop
Top tips to bag a job in retail

Ted Baker
No Ordinary Finance Graduate

Brampton Stafford Recruitment
SEARCH OVER 100 OF THE LATEST UK GRADUATE JOBS

Grads East
East of England’s free graduate career and recruitment site

Grant Thornton
Spend a year learning what accountancy is like

Get your application sorted... and get a foot in the interview room
Take a step closer to your dream job by avoiding the pitfalls of a poor application form with these case studies from Rebecca Corfield’s book ‘Preparing the Perfect Job Application’.

Bampton Stafford
HOW WE HELP GRADUATES FIND OVER 100 LIVE JOBS…

Current Biodata
e are seeking enthusiastic, well-organised individuals to join the editorial team as Editorial Analysts

How much impact on society do you really want to make?
Hertfordshire County Council Hertfordshire County Council is recruiting for Planning and Finance Graduate Programmes for various locations across Hertfordshire

Thames Valley Police
Careers in PR

IQPC - Tomorrow Begins Today
Tomorrow Begins Today!

Thames Valley Police
TVP Break into PR

what is it really like to be on a Graduate Scheme?
Gradjobs Chilli Ever wondered what its like once you start working for an employer in a graduate position?

Thales
Graduate opportunities with a global leader in Aerospace, Defence and Security

CSC
CSC Wanted: Top Graduates for the Graduate Programme at CSC!

Softcat
Softcat The Sunday Times 6th Best Company to Work For 2007 Wants You

Contact Singapore
Contact Singapore Tap on the growth of Asia and build a career in banking at the crossroad of global financial markets

Capital IQ Gradmail - 4th March 2008
Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s

GRAD INTERVIEW: Shaping the course of the future
<a href=http://www.freeimagehosting.net/><img src=http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/1e621b0c93.jpg border=0 a> Life doesn’t always go to plan and sometimes certain events can change the direction of your career path as quick as a flash – Winter 07-08

GEAR 4 GRADUATES
<a href=http://www.freeimagehosting.net/><img src=http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/6525f6911c.jpg border=0 a> Paul Johnson tests the latest technology to find some of the best gear for job hunting, work and play – Winter 07-08

MANAGEMENT TRAINING: Don't blow it!
<a href=http://www.freeimagehosting.net/><img src=http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/38153f25e6.jpg border=0 a> Put your energy into management training. Paul Johnson looks at what it takes to be a great manager. Winter 07-08

ASSESSMENT CENTRES: STAR PERFORMANCE
<a href=http://www.freeimagehosting.net/><img src=http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/fd179238f0.jpg border=0 a> Janet Cowell has a wealth of 'insider tips' on how to shine like a star – Winter 07-08

Get the whole deal: the importance of benefits
Company benefits can be worth thousands of pounds a year to new recruits. We look at which ones are worth having.

Unadvertised jobs - when inside knowledge pays off
It’s estimated that more than two thirds of graduate jobs aren’t advertised. We discover how to hunt out the hidden job market.

Can you cut it? Have you got what it takes to work in sales?
Landing a job in sales can be the ideal springboard to launch a fantastic career. Great money, exciting challenges and an opportunity to pick up some of the best business skills around.

Gear for Graduates
We’ve tested some of the latest technology and found some of the best gadgets for job hunting, work or play.

Engineer yourself a top career
Engineering is traditionally thought of as a male profession. But that’s all changing, with firms recruiting more and more female graduates who are every bit as good as their male counterparts

London Calling?
For many graduates, the Big Smoke is the only place to go get the best jobs, the most money and a social life to die for. But is London life all that it’s cracked up to be – or can university leavers

Career Clinic
Have your questions answered by the recruitment experts

Life after graduation
Graduates reveal what they really think about uni and the real world

The never-ending story
Many undergrads live in a fantasy world and only realise the difficulties of job hunting and the burden of student debt on graduation. NUS president Gemma Tumelty talks to Paul Johnson about the organ

A great career in store
Retail as a sector is one of the biggest graduate employers around and has a dazzling array of career options...

PUSHED TO THE LIMIT
Does a demanding career in policing appeal to you? The High Potential Development scheme (HPD)....

Gear for Graduates
We’ve tested some of the latest technology and found some of the best gadgets for job hunting, work or play....

Career Clinic
Are you in a conundrum with your career or confused about CVs?

Top 100 employers ‘good news’ for grads
Markets are all about buying and selling and the graduate jobs market is no different...

Spies like us
Ever fancied yourself as a real-life James Bond battling the bad guys....

The Degree Debate
With the introduction of top-up fees this autumn, the degree debate is a hot topic...

Job vacancies at 10-year high
Graduates are in the best position for more than a decade to land a top job...

The F-Word
Finance – it’s probably the last word you want to hear, but ignoring your cash-flow can cost you dearly...

Work/life balancing act
A good balance between personal life and a thriving career is the key goal...

Graduates ‘bored with their jobs’
Half of graduates working in a range of professions frequently find their work boring, according to a new study...

Top firms ‘want elite foreigners’
Many of Britain's top firms want to hire staff from the cream of foreign graduates who have been educated at UK universities..

MBAs are the business
MBAs are the most popular masters degree in the UK, according to the latest findings...

Payday for public sector jobs
Starting pay for graduates in the public sector is for the first time higher than...

Body talk – getting it right
Your body language can make or break an interview...

Career Clinic
Some of the most experienced graduate recruitment specialists around to cut through the confusion...

Gear for Graduates
The gadgets that can give your job hunting a boost

Have graduates got the edge?
For the low-down on the graduate job market then look no further.

Graduate jobs and salaries set to rise
It’s good news for students and graduates hunting for the best jobs

GradJobs News
What's hot at the moment?

Helping the medicine go down…
Find out more about the pharmaceutical industry...

Turning detective
Do your homework!

Make the mark in marketing
If you want to get ahead in marketing you’ve got to be an ace when it comes to selling – and that includes both yourself and your product.

Steer your career
You’ve got your degree, so what more do employers want?

Europe: a single market for graduates?
For graduates with a yearning for adventure, working in the European Union can be an exciting and rewarding prospect. But getting a job abroad poses its own set of tough challenges, as Joel Clark disc

More top jobs, but grads lack skills
Employers fear they cannot fill the rising number of vacancies because graduates lack vital work skills

When branding is king
Carol Lewis, deputy editor of The Times’ Career section, highlights the importance of branding for corporate companies and reveals the winners of The Times Graduate Recruitment Awards 2006

Show me the money
Salary is one of the most important elements of any job – particularly for cash-strapped graduates – so it’s crucial you get a good deal. We show you how.

Career Clinic
Are you in a conundrum with your career or confused about CVs? Our career experts can help.

News Stories
The news from this Summer

Graduates Teach First to get on in business
Teach First, an independent charity, targets high calibre students who would not normally consider a career in teaching and places them in disadvantaged secondary schools in London.

Selling to the world – focus on retail
Mention ‘retail’ to some job hunters and they dismiss it as just stacking shelves. But there’s a lot more to the industry than that – as many hundreds of graduates find out every year.

Retail: focus on Arcadia
The Arcadia Group is the UK’s largest retailer of clothes, with more than 2,000 outlets covering eight well-known brands including Top Shop, Burton, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins.

GradJobs – News section
AGR survey - more jobs and better pay

News
Careers services under fire. Graduates are blaming university and college careers services for their failure to get decent jobs on graduation.

Interview - Jo Causon, director of corporate affairs, Chartered Management Institute
If you’re applying for a graduate-level position, the chances are you’ll become a manager sooner or later – and in most cases that’s very much sooner.

Careers clinic
Welcome to the GradJobs career clinic. Landing that perfect job is never easy – especially when it seems you’re confronted with a never-ending series of challenges and obstacles along the way

Gear for Graduates
Here at GradJobs we love gadgets, especially those that can give your job hunting a boost or help out with your newfound career. We’ve tested some of the latest technology for you.

Food and drink – how to land a tasty career
If you want to work in an industry that’s guaranteed to be around forever, food and drink must be the ideal choice.

Cover yourself in glory
No matter how good your CV is, your covering letter may be letting you down badly. Get it right and you’ll be one step ahead of the competition - but get it wrong and you’re application will go no fur

Class of ‘99 finds graduate work
Most graduates are finding work appropriate to their degrees within four years of leaving university, according to a major new investigation.

Career clinic
Are you in a conundrum with your career or confused about CVs? Our career experts can help. We’ve assembled some of the most experienced graduate recruitment specialists around to cut through the conf

Lead interview
The government is on a charm offensive to persuade school leavers that university is the way to a better life. In an exclusive interview, GradJobs editor Paul Johnson talks to Minister for Higher Educ

Nightmare interviews - how to cope
The interview stage is probably one of the most dreaded parts of any job application and selection. Find out how to cope...

Ten steps to impressing Employers
With thousands of applicants competing for some jobs, how do you stand out from the crowd? We team up with recruitment consultancy, The Principle Partnership, to find out.

Are you Experienced?
You’ve studied hard and paid your dues, but now it’s time to find a job. Matt Pigott explains why having work experience is a great asset when it comes to staying a step ahead of the competition.

Who’s the Boss?
Employees don’t leave jobs - they leave managers. We show you how to turn the tables in a job interview and find out if they are to up to scratch.

Surviving the Real World
After years of studying, partying and keeping odd hours, some students find the world of work restricting, isolating and exhausting. Joel Clark helps you make the transition.

Letting you down gently
Rejection can be hard to overcome. So much so, that some employers have begun to offer rejection counselling. Paul Johnson reports on a growing trend.

All the fun of the fairs
Graduate recruitment fairs aren't what they used to be. Mocked-up crime scenes now compete for attention with enticing audio-visual and interactive displays.

Mind the gap!
For many students, the prospect of a year away from the books and lectures after grafting hard for A levels may seem like the dream reprieve.

Where next after qualifying?
If you add up the years that go into your final qualifications, it's staggering how little attention people give to the question

Net yourself a job
If your spider-crawl handwriting leaves a lot to be desired and doesn't present the picture of


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