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Graduate Mail | DHL Exel Supply Chain Management
(24th November 2008)


DHL - Ready for 18 months or pure inspiration? Whether its managing logistics for a formula 1 team...

Graduate News | The Pizza Puzzle from CIPS
(21st November 2008)


A career in Purchasing & supply management it makes you think. The pizza puzzle - your route to a challenging career...

Graduate Mail | eFinancial Careers numerical tests
(20th November 2008)


Are you ready for the banks tests? Be prepared and take our practice numerical tests...

Graduate Mail | Graduate opportunities with CSC
(19th November 2008)


Graduate opportunities with CSC. CSC is the leading consulting systems integration services...

Graduate Mail | Birmingham University
(17th November 2008)


Visit the postgraduate open day at Birmingham University: Postgraduate Open day and Research Showcase 3rd December...

Graduate Mail | Softcat
(18th November 2008)


It takes all sorts to make great IT sales executives. If you are a graduate or graduate calibre...

Graduate Mail | Wincanton Graduate opportunitues
(6th October 2008)


Graduate Opportunities with one of Europe’s leading supply chain companies. Wincanton facts and figures...

Graduate Mail | DHL Excel Supply Chain
(1st October 2008)


DHL Exel Supply Chain is pleased to announce the launch of our exciting NEW GRADUATE WEBSITE www.dhl-graduates.com...

Graduate News | Gradjobs Autumn Magazine is out now...
(1st October 2008)


Our biggest issue yet is packed with the latest news, advice, insightful articles and interviews, making it the essential guide to launch your career...

Graduate Mail | Brampton Stafford
(30th September 2008)


HOW WE HELP GRADUATES FIND OVER 100 LIVE JOBS. Brampton Stafford Recruitment are a graduate recruitment...

Graduate Mail | Arcadia - A leading Fashion Retailer
(26th September 2008)


Join Arcadia today - a leading fashion retailer. Arcadia Group is the UK’s largest privately owned fashion retailer with more than 2,500 outlets...

Graduate Mail | Grow your own Business
(25th September 2008)


Do you have a great business idea but don't know where to start? Attend the Growing Your Own Business Exhibition & Conference!...

Graduate Mail | Cash Score specialist ATM consultancy
(24th September 2008)


Cash Score are a well established specialist ATM consultancy working with Bank Machine, the UK’s premier independent ATM operator...

Graduate Mail | Softcat Limited is now recruiting
(23rd September 2008)


Softcat Limited is now recruiting. Softcat was established in 1993 by Peter Kelly, an entrepreneur who believes in the ethos of 'work hard play hard'...

Graduate Mail | The National Franchise Exhibition this weekend
(17th September 2008)


Calling all young entrepreneurs! Would you like to be your own boss rather than working for someone else?

Graduate Mail | Ted Baker
(16th September 2008)


No Ordinary Finance Graduate, A fantastic opportunity to work for Ted Baker....

Graduate Mail | BBT
(2nd September 2008)


Take your career further with Beresford Blake Thomas - Recruitment Consultants wanted at all levels, excellent benefits...

Graduate Mail | PaperlinX
(1st September 2008)


Looking for an outstanding graduate programme? Feeling ready to unlock your potential - Graduate Leadership Programme at Paperlinx Europe

Graduate Mail | Great Places Housing
(29th July 2008)


Think you could carve yourself a career in housing? There's room for you at Great Places if you can convince us that we need you!...

Graduate Mail | Showsec Academy Associates
(9th July 2008)


Showsec Academy Associates, Nationwide opportunities in operational management skills - Start your career in events...

Graduate Mail | BBT opportunities
(September 2008)


Opportunities Abroad | Global Reach - Local Focus. Careers abroad with BBT in Abu Dubai, Oman and Qatar

Graduate Mail | SF Group Sales Career
(August 2008)


Are you looking for a career in sales? Dare to be different and aspire to be the best...

Graduate Mail | Hays Finance Technology
(August 2008)


Technical Research Consultant Graduate Programme at Hays Finance Technology, the new global name in financial information...

Graduate Mail | Autosmart Graduates
(August 2008)


Graduate Opportunities at Autosmart International, field sales management customer services in France and Germany...

Graduate Mail | E-Financial Careers
(June 2008)


Trade your way to being a Portfolio Manager with the E-Financial Careers investment challenge and Fidelity international...

Graduate Mail | Autosmart International
(July 2008)


Autosmart International is the UK market leader in the manufacture and distribution of professional vehicle...

Graduate Mail | CIMA open days
(June 2008)


CIMA open days in London and Birmingham in July, come along and get 1-1 advice from employers, recruitment consultants...

Graduate Mail | unipart Graduate opportunities
(June 2008)


Graduate Opportunities at Unipart Group. Unipart is the best place to learn lean. Thats a bold statement but one we can measure up to...

Graduate Mail | Government Statistical Services
(July 2008)


The UK's most important numbers aren't produced by Excalibur. Excellent opportunities with the Government Statistical Service...

Graduate Mail | Contact Singapore
(July 2008)


Find out about the Singapore Work Holiday Programme. You long to see the world and immerse in its various cultures...

Gear for Graduates
(June 2008)


Technology to ease and enhance job hunting try the T-Mobile Vario III

Become a media mogul
(June 2008)


How to succeed in the media industry. Working in the media is one of the most popular choices for graduates...

Graduate Mail | CV spells trouble
(June 2008)


Ensure your CV is at its best, ignore the guidelines to producing a good CV and your might end up on the rubbish pile...

Graduate Mail | Mind the gap
(May 2008)


Making the transition to working life. Many graduates are a breath of fresh air to a company, bringing with...

Graduate Mail | HIt your target!
(May 2008)


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...

Graduate Mail | Gear for Graduates
(May 2008)


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 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!

what is it really like to be on a Graduate Scheme?

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

Wanted: Top Graduates for the Graduate Programme at CSC!

Softcat

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

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

GRAD INTERVIEW: Shaping the course of the future

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

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!

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

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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