James: David, thank you so much for appearing
on the Graduate Job Podcast today.
Personal Career Management work with many graduates
on our graduate job search programme helping with CVs, interview training, application forms etc..
If you really want to make an entrance and impact
on the graduate job market and get noticed (for the right reasons!)
The job openings
on our graduate job page are perfect for enthusiastic graduates seeking to get a foothold onto the career ladder.
It's not surprising, then, that «excellent analytical skills» is frequently listed as an essential requirement
on graduate job descriptions, person specifications and job adverts.
Sallyann Birchall, UK head of graduate recruitment at Deutsche Bank, says on average 80 % of interns are offered positions
on the graduate job scheme at the end of their internship.
We're running a survey to gather your thoughts
on graduate job seeking.
Its focus
on graduate jobs means that it contains really useful advice on graduate application forms, interviews, assessment centres and the like.
We focus down again for episode 32, which is the second of our two part special
on graduate jobs in social work, as I speak to Ivan Wise, Recruitment Director at Think Ahead.
Hook yourself up with a few recruitment agencies that specifically focus
on graduate jobs and preferably in your sector.
Not exact matches
Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused
on placing top - college
graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate
job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.
High school
graduates can work as
on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal
on - the -
job training.
Among the
jobs on offer when he
graduated was bank teller at the Bank of Nova Scotia's Windsor Park branch — starting salary, $ 7,400 a year — marking the start of a 43 - year run at the bank.
With more than 8,000 tech
jobs available
on Dice.com
on any given day, New York City, unsurprisingly, is the most challenging place to recruit computer science
graduates, the survey found.
It touches
on a larger debate as to whether a college degree is worth the investment when student loan balances are soaring and new
graduates often struggle to find
jobs.
With that said, those still aren't the cities these young adults are currently moving to, says LinkedIn, which determines these trends by looking at data from its users, including the year they
graduated from college and the locations of the
jobs on their profiles.
No matter how great your qualifications are, if somebody else in your field
graduates a year earlier, they will have a jump
on you in the
job market.
«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they
graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it
on the
job.
When the Jet.com CEO
graduated from college, all he wanted was a
job that looked good
on his résumé and would pay well.
Why aren't more universities getting
on the bandwagon when it could be a path for them to improve their
job placement percentages for
graduates — and the American business bottom line?
Sloan reported that 93 % of 2016
graduates accepted
job offers within 90 days of graduation at companies like Amazon, Google, McKinsey & Co., and Microsoft, and 6.1 % of grads went
on to start their own businesses.
Last year, women MBA
graduates received half the
job offers — one versus two,
on average — of their male counterparts, despite sending out 20 % more applications, according to GMAC.
Here's the thing: I have sat in meetings with business leaders where the lack of STEM education, programs focusing
on the skilled trades, and a lack of
job - ready
graduates has been the only focus of discussion.
By last year, Cain says, the company had
graduated to «direct carrier» status, meaning it can bid
on jobs to ship parts and components directly to the assembly plants.
Whether you're
graduating soon and are trying to find a financial head - start (or perhaps you're keeping a careful eye
on enticing companies for a
job switch), here are some of the businesses currently offering this awesome perk:
But he did expand and extend a program that allows foreign
graduates with scientific and technical degrees from American universities to work in
on - the -
job training programs at U.S. companies.
Lacking a formal education in economics and having
graduated with law degree from Yale University, Powell had to learn
on the
job when it came to monetary theory and interest - rate policy.
Surveys conducted of the 50 Best Workplaces for Recent
Graduates found teams substantially more likely to say they can count
on colleagues to cooperate, as well as a greater willingness to go the extra mile to do their
jobs, compared to workers at peer companies.
Mike Vernal
graduated from Harvard in 2002, a few months before Zuckerberg arrived
on campus, and took a
job at Microsoft msft.
She did not mention monetary policy in her speech, which was solely focused
on the world of work, but did note those
graduating were entering the strongest
jobs market in nearly a decade.
She
graduated from Harvard University, did a stint as a consultant, held management
jobs at Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss and started
on an MBA from Columbia University.
As a college
graduate schooled in accounting, working
on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a
job, much less a career.
It was sort of based
on job opportunity, something called «elite
graduates» and data from Moody's (the same Moody's that rated many liar loans bundled as CDO's as AAA + so we know * they're * reliable).
Today, roughly half of STEM
jobs in the United States do not require a bachelor's degree, and since many of these high - skills
jobs are also high - demand, CTE
graduates will earn
on average between $ 4,000 and $ 19,000 more a year than a person with a humanities associate degree.
«
Graduates» first
jobs have an inordinate impact
on their career path and [lifetime earnings],» wrote Austan Goolsbee, now a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, in The New York Times in 2006.
This was the dream we were sold
on as kids, «To
graduate and get a good
job» and most parents / children pursued this...
Moreover, in a strong economy, more of these students can count
on finding
jobs when they
graduate.
I understand that a post-secondary education can be very expensive (I worked two
jobs and had many different entrepreneurial ventures and I still
graduated with over $ 20,000 in student loan debt which is now all paid off by the way) and taking
on debt is a necessary evil for some.
When we
graduate from college, get a
job and enjoy the legal benefits afforded to the post-21 crowd, we're bombarded
on a nearly moment - to - moment basis with opportunities.
The brainwashing that goes
on in
graduate departments may not be a conspiracy, as some of the commenters say, but that doesn't mean the brainwashing doesn't occur nevertheless.Also, I can't stand that UM English still has me listed as having been placed at Trinity as if it were a TT
job.
Insofar as Crisis
on Campus identifies pressing problems» the financial plight of universities and the difficulties
graduate students have in finding permanent academic
jobs» it can be useful.
With my mind
on other things I assumed they were, as they frequently were, to conduct a routine check
on some Yale
graduate applying for a government
job.
Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking
graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus
on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a
job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...
I did a fine
job ignoring it — it's easy to do when there's no hope for recovery — and when I
graduated from college, I planned to just get
on with my life.
I'm almost done with
graduate school, and after we move I'll get to start my
job as a speech - language pathologist working with kids of all ages (and of course, blogging in the evenings and
on weekends).
When our finance professors stressed that having a
job in an international bank was the way to earn big money and rising up the ranks, I applied to Standard Chartered and got accepted into its international
graduate program, so incredibly happy to officially be a banker
on my way up the corporate ladder.
Everyone talks about a
graduating class from high school and key athletes moving
on into college, but it's always fun to check out those who've earned
jobs as rookies in the NFL after playing in college.
With between 20 - 30 mm Hg
graduated compression put
on the legs, these socks stimulate blood flow and help treat swelling and other conditions such as spider veins commonly associated with the
job of teachers.
With this background, our government is proposing a new
jobs program, the Nation Builders Corps, to focus
on graduate unemployment.
On average, under this program every district should be able to provide
jobs for 462
graduates.