Finance Career provides springboard for FTSE CEOs
Ambitious young graduates would do well to seek a career in finance to act as a springboard to land top jobs on Britain’s boards.
Clive Davis, director at finance staffing specialist Robert Half, was highlighting his firm’s latest research, which shows 49% of serving chief executives in the current FTSE 100 Index have financial backgrounds, up from just 31% in 2008. Continue Reading »
Increased Competition for places at PwC
One in three of PwC’s new graduate Spring intake graduated in 2008 and 2009, according to the professional services firm.
The firm says most of the intake for the 209 available places were from graduates who graduated last year.
PwC received 5,877 applications for the places, Continue Reading »
Is a Degree worth it?
There is lots of talk about university fees at present. Will the UK move towards the USA system with universities free to charge students what the market will bear for tuition. If so, it would free universities from state control on numbers of students and generally require students to fund their own education. Of course, the universities would provide grants to high calibre students whose parents were of modest means. (Oxford University already supports 30% of it’s undergraduates through their bursary scheme).
But what are the implications of the USA system? In the USA university fees can be as high as £29,000 a year and so a student could emerge from university with a debt approaching £90,000. Continue Reading »
Graduate Employment at ‘15 Year Low’
The 2010 UK Graduates Career Survey conducted by High Flyers Research publicized a number of worrying statistics on last year’s graduate employment. In total, 16,114 students were questioned – equating to 1/5th of 2010 graduates from the 30 universities that took part in the study.
The survey revealed that just 36% of graduating students felt that they would Continue Reading »
Jaguar Land Rover doubles its graduate intake
Jaguar Land Rover has doubled the number of graduates it plans to recruit this year.
The company plans to hire 280 graduates in 2011 compared to 135 last year.
The 280 graduates will be hired for Continue Reading »
KPMG raises the stakes in search for talent
KPMG, the professional services firm, is extending its school leavers’ programme to Exeter and Birmingham Universities.
Students will enrol on Continue Reading »
GSK to pay tuition fees for its graduates once higher fees hit
Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced last week that it will pay university tuition fees for those joining its graduate scheme once higher rate fees have hit. Students starting university from 2012 will face fees of up to £9,000 a year – if they take up graduate jobs with GSK in the UK after graduating, it will pay 100% of these fees for them. As well as scientists, Continue Reading »
IT applicants need to get their CVs right
Almost nine in 10 (88%) of recruiters see mistakes on IT job seekers’ CVs, according to research from IT recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk.
The research shows 74% of IT job seekers are confident they Continue Reading »
How not to complete your CV
Giving God as a reference heads the list of CV gaffes as revealed in a recent survey.
Other attempts to attract attention include Continue Reading »
University Admission – the future?
So, the latest thoughts from UCAS are that candidates may be limited to having two university choices instead of five and that sixth formers apply after they have their ‘A’ level results.
The current UCAS system is clearly creaking under the strain of the high number of applicants and a nine-month investigation into the system is about to commence. When UCAS started the system in 1961 there were 50,000 applicants, now the figure is circa 700,000 with one in three missing out on a place.
It would appear that Continue Reading »