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 »
Build your Future in Conservation
According to research by ConstructionSkills, an industry financed skills council and English Heritage, the future of pre-1919 buildings, of which there are 5 million could be at risk as over two-thirds of the workforce undertaking the repairs does not posses the right skills to do the job properly.
There is only one buildings conservation accredited surveyor for every 85,000 traditional buildings and only one engineer with relevant conservation experience for every 276,000 buildings.
This severe shortage in know-how is the reason that the National Trust has created a new three year apprenticeship scheme that is training young men and women in traditional skills Continue Reading »
Is some work experience more equal than others?
The number of graduates with good grades is rocketing and employers, unable to distinguish between candidates on academic grounds, are looking for something extra on the CV. Professor Peter Hawkins, a graduate employment expert at Liverpool University, has said that work experience is now “absolutely crucial” for young people. He describes a degree as “no longer a meal ticket to people’s future – it’s merely a licence to hunt.” Continue Reading »
Weeding out ‘unsuitable’ teaching applicants
Whilst it is not unusual for employers to ask prospective employees to undergo psychometric assessment as a tool to assist in their development it is rare, except for verbal and numeric reasoning, for it to be widely used as part of the recruitment process.
But, in a global first for England, the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has announced that by 2012 all applicants for University teacher training courses will undergo psychometric assessment. Continue Reading »
Do top law firms erect barriers to social mobility?
Some elite London law firms are passing over well-qualified, white working-class job applicants in favour of middle-class graduates from elite universities who they think would be better for their image, new research says.
The firms studied had successfully recruited Continue Reading »