Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?)
www.kent.ac.uk/ces/
Tim ReedHead of Careers and Employability Service
GRADUATE SALARIES 2012 Arcadia – retail management £18,500 - £23,000
Boots - brand/buying/marketing grad scheme £24,000 + £1k welcome!
Barclays Bank - future leaders development programme £36k (+£8k bonus!)
Civil Service - up to £27,000
Explore Learning - education management £21,000
Exxon Mobil - graduate schemes £34,000
FiveTen Group - recruitment £20-£25k
GCHQ - defence research £25,000 (+ benefits)
IBM - range of schemes £27,000 - £32,000
Jaguar Land Rover - purchasing grad scheme £27k
John Lewis - buying/retail management/merchandising graduate schemes £25,000
L’Oreal - management training scheme £28,000
McDonald’s - trainee business manager £18,500-21,500
MI5 - £24,750 + benefits - varies by function!
Motability - £28,500 (+ joining bonus!)
Slaughter & May - training contract £38,000
Waitrose - retail management £25,000
Introduction
• Where to look for jobs/internships
• What else you can do?
Where to look
• Vacancy publications www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/index.htm
• Directories www.prospects.ac.uk
• Employers – eg. dstl @ www.dstl.gov.uk/careers/gradrec.php
• Specialist publications
www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/
www.psychapp.co.uk/
• Careers Fairs
Careers Fairs - 2012www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs
Brunel Graduate Summer Fair Uxbridge 21/5/2012Summer Careers Fair De Montfort University, Leicester 29/5/2012Edinburgh Graduate Recruitment Fair Edinburgh 29/5/2012Liverpool Graduate Recruitment Festival 2012 Liverpool 30/5/2012Graduate Recruitment Fair Bath 31/5/2012 Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair University of Leeds 31/5/2012Newcastle Graduate Recruitment Fair Newcastle upon Tyne 11/6/2012Sheffield's Summer Graduate Recruitment Online Fair Sheffield 11/6/2012Cardiff Summer Graduate Careers Fair Cardiff 12/6/2012The Northern Ireland Graduate Recruitment Fair University Of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus 12/6/2012The Graduate Recruitment Fair @ Manchester Manchester 13-14/6/2012Jobs Fair London School of Economics and Political Science 14/6/2012The London Graduate Fair from The Careers Group and TARGETjobs.co.uk London 20-21/6/2012
Where to look
• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres & LSCs
• Online sources
Online sources
• Institute of Practitioners in Advertising www.ipa.co.uk/
• Chartered Institute of Marketing www.cim.co.uk
• Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
www.cipd.co.uk/
• Guardian vacancies www.jobs.guardian.co.uk/
Excellent Websiteswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmen.htm
• www.prospects.ac.uk
• www.get.hobsons.co.uk/
• www.targetjobs.co.uk
• www.kent.ac.uk/ces/
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/finding-employers.htm
• www.kentgrads.org.uk/
Where to look
• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres & LSCs
• Internet
• Newspapers
Job ads in the presswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitespub.htm
• Actuaries - Money Management, Observer, Times
• Arts Administration - The Stage, Arts Management Weekly, Guardian (Mon & Sat)
• Media - Media Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media, BBC staff magazine “Ariel”
• Higher Education - Times Higher Educational Supplement www.thes.co.uk
Where to look• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres & LSCs
• Internet
• Newspapers
• Recruitment Agencies
Recruitment Agencieswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/recruit.htm
• FASHION - George Ellis Recruitment
• MUSIC - Handle Recruitment
• ACCOUNTANCY - Hays Accountancy Personnel
• SECRETARIAL - Nice People Employment Bureau
• STOCKBROKING - Citifocus Ltd
What else can you do?www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm
• ask your friends
• ask your relatives
• ask your “network”
• ask a careers adviser
Next Steps
• Decide on the job you want
• Research employers
• Apply early
• Discuss your ideas if you are uncertain
• Change your job-hunting methods if they are not working