global skills award where are the jobs? (how do i find vacancies?) kent.ac.uk/careers
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GLOBAL SKILLS AWARD Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?) www.kent.ac.uk/careers/. Tim Reed Head of Careers Advisory Service. 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
GLOBAL SKILLS AWARD
Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?) www.kent.ac.uk/careers/
Tim ReedHead of Careers Advisory Service
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
• Employer brochures – eg. dstl @ www.dstl.gov.uk/careers/gradrec.php
• Specialist publications
www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/
www.psychapp.co.uk/
• Careers Fairs
Careers Fairs - 2011www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs
GO11 - Graduate Opportunities Fair University of Central Lancashire, Preston 17/11/2011Volunteering Fair Leicester, Main Campus 17/11/2011Science, Technology & Engineering Fair Plymouth 23/11/2011Law Careers Fair Exeter 24/11/2011Rural Enterprise and Land Management Careers Fair Harper Adams UC 24/11/2011Law Futures Ground Floor Lady Hale Building University of Salford 28/11/2011Newcastle Careers in Computing Fair Newcastle upon Tyne 28/11/2011Business & Law Careers Fair De Montfort University, Leicester 29/11/2011Technology Careers Fair De Montfort University, Leicester 6/12/2011Teaching & Education Recruitment Fair Hope Park, Liverpool 7/12/2011Creative Futures Newport 24/1/2012Recruitment Fair Bordeaux, France 1/2/2012Creative Careers Week Newcastle upon Tyne 6/2/2012
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/
GRADUATE SALARIES 2011 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
Excellent Websiteswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmen.htm
• www.prospects.ac.uk
• www.get.hobsons.co.uk/
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/
• www.kentgrads.org.uk/
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/PDWPgrad.htm
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)
• Times Higher Educational Supplement www.thes.co.uk good source of jobs in universities.
• Academic Jobs EU www.academicjobseu.com Academic and related vacancies for research institutes in the EU.
• aut4jobswww.aut4jobs.com Higher education vacancies
• Association of Commonwealth Universities www.acu.ac.uk/adverts/jobs international university jobs
• Eduserve Vacancies www.vacancies.ac.uk on-line information services for clients in education, government, health and other sectors.
• The National Postgraduate Committee www.npc.org.uk - the representative body for Postgrads in UK links to job search resources
• New Scientist www.newscientistjobs.com
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