UK language graduates and global mobility
Multinationals looking for graduate hires look at the ability to speak a foreign language as important but not essential, according to a survey of global firms.
Research carried out by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) and research agency CFE shows that UK students are Continue Reading »
Competition for jobs in professional services
Leading professional services firms have already been swamped with graduate applications for 2012.
Ernst & Young has received more than 3,200 applications for fewer than 800 jobs; in practice, and allowing for interns from summer 2011 already offered positions, there are only between 480 and 560 jobs available.
At KPMG they have received 7,200 applications for 850 jobs between 1st July and 1st November. By comparison last years applicants for the same period were 4,500.
PwC, which says that it is seeking to hire 1,200 graduates, has said that applications have risen by 90% and Deloitte has indicated that it has experienced a similar increase in applications.
source: The Times
Do all the advertised graduate jobs exist?
Have you been busy applying for graduate jobs in banking and financial services? What level of response have you received? I have feedback that suggests the number of actual vacancies is far less than might be expected from the corporate websites.
I’m told that one investment bank has already recruited 90% of the planned 2012 graduate intake from this years Summer interns. Continue Reading »
Do employers really value degrees?
Whilst recruitment and selection systems often discard graduate applicants who didn’t manage to get a 2.1 this conflicts with what business owners really want according to the findings of recent research. 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 »
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 »
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 »