With all the doom and gloom in the press recently about graduate and young people's unemployment, I've been thinking about whether I would have bothered doing a degree in today's economy...These days, you need to have a clear idea of...Read More
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The big debate: degree vs apprenticeship
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With hundreds of graduates fighting for every vacancy, a stand-out CV is often the only thing to open the door leading to a dream job.Discount chain Aldi is rated one of the top graduate recruiters - it was the only...Read More
Is work experience really the way in?
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Let me tell you a short, but sweet, story. Here at Totaljobs Group, we gave someone an opportunity to work for us after they volunteered to do a two week placement, free of charge. He proved himself to be committed, reliable,...Read More
Young people looking for jobs often look at unpaid internships as a way of gaining valuable work experience and potentially a foot in the door at some companies.But now employers should be forced to pay interns a minimum of £2.50...Read More
Marathon job interviews
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What could you do in three hours? Catch a flight to Spain? Watch Lord of the Rings? Even run a marathon if you're super-fit.How about being interviewed? A survey by recruitment agency GRB found some job seekers had to endure...Read More
CV achievements: show how you can shine
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Your CV should always include achievements as they reveal much about your ambition and your potential value to a company. The most impactful achievements will tell a recruiter what you did and what the result was. When you...Read More
University matters, whether you like it or not
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What university did you graduate from? Should it really matter to your prospects of getting a job?Apparently it does; a new report warns that employers are missing out on a major pool of talent by purely focusing their graduate recruitment...Read More
Good news - and bad - for graduates
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A report out today (13 January) looks at the state of the graduate recruitment market and the number of vacancies likely to be available in 2010.It has some good news for graduates - the 100 top employers surveyed said they...Read More
How far would I go to get a job?
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No, I'm not talking about sleeping with the interviewer or recruitment consultant, but it's a question that hundreds of thousands of jobseekers must have been asking themselves recently, as the jobs market has dried up and unemployment has gone through...Read More
1. Panic !!!! 2. Realise panicking doesn't help. 3. Figure out your next step Whether you are celebrating or commiserating, or even still in limbo awaiting final results, there's bound to be some pretty strong emotions that are stirred...Read More
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