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How to Find a Job After University: Are You Ready for the Graduate Job Hunt?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After uni, a lot of graduates dive head first into the job hunt. It’s understandable to want to secure employment as soon as possible before the post-uni existential dread kicks in. However, grads, first you need to stop and take a deep breath. There is no golden rule that will tell you how to find…
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Graduate Sales Jobs: Decoding the Good from the Bad
A career in sales could offer you everything you want from a graduate job. Competitive salaries, perks and bonuses, daily challenges and the opportunity to work in an industry that interests you. Graduate sales jobs are fantastic for driven and ambitious grads who enjoy a challenge, have great communication skills and are money-motivated. The right…
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Graduates: The Importance of Commercial Awareness
“Must be commercially aware” is a requirement that seems to be popping up on job adverts more and more often. You’re not entirely sure what it means but surely it can’t be that important, can it? Why being commercially aware is important In the competitive graduate job market, employers need to know that they’re going…
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Graduate Schemes vs. Graduate Jobs – Which is right for you?
It’s that time of year – when thousands of students across the country are nearing the end of their degrees and asking themselves “what next?”. For many, the working world is an unfamiliar and daunting place and, with very little professional experience, it’s hard to know what’s what when you take the first steps into…
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What Your Hobbies Say About You
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ‘About Me’ or ‘Hobbies and Interests’ sections on a job application seem innocent enough, don’t they? Think again. What you include in these sections can give your prospective employer an idea of your personality, what you can offer them and what you may be like in the workplace. This is especially true for graduates…
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Can You Improve Your LinkedIn Profile?
The vast majority of professionals now have a presence on LinkedIn and those that don’t could be missing out on an extremely valuable tool. LinkedIn is useful for a number of purposes: Building your professional network Enhancing your professional image Maintaining contact with your connections Networking with colleagues Searching for new opportunities Making you…
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Why Job Seekers Need to be More Visible on Social Media
Job seekers are often reminded about how damaging their social media can be. When you apply for a job employers and recruiters will look you up, but what will they find when they do? We have seen plenty of photos of candidates falling out of clubs and looking a little worse for wear. It does…
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How Recruitment Companies Can Help You Find a Job
The majority of employers do not have in-house HR teams that can manage the company’s recruitment because hiring new staff is a BIG job in itself! Instead, they pass their vacancies on to recruitment companies who will advertise and help find candidates on the employer’s behalf. Recruitment companies, therefore, have a lot of good opportunities…