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Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?) kent.ac.uk/ces/

Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?) www.kent.ac.uk/ces/. Tim Reed Head 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!

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Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?) kent.ac.uk/ces/

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  1. Where are the jobs? (How do I find vacancies?)www.kent.ac.uk/ces/ Tim Reed Head of Careers and Employability Service

  2. 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

  3. Introduction Where to look for jobs/internships What else you can do?

  4. 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

  5. Careers Fairs - 2012 www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs Brunel Graduate Summer Fair Uxbridge 21/5/2012 Summer Careers Fair De Montfort University, Leicester 29/5/2012 Edinburgh Graduate Recruitment Fair Edinburgh 29/5/2012 Liverpool Graduate Recruitment Festival 2012 Liverpool 30/5/2012 Graduate Recruitment Fair Bath 31/5/2012 Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair University of Leeds 31/5/2012 Newcastle Graduate Recruitment Fair Newcastle upon Tyne 11/6/2012 Sheffield's Summer Graduate Recruitment Online Fair Sheffield 11/6/2012 Cardiff Summer Graduate Careers Fair Cardiff 12/6/2012 The Northern Ireland Graduate Recruitment Fair University Of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus 12/6/2012 The Graduate Recruitment Fair @ Manchester Manchester 13-14/6/2012 Jobs Fair London School of Economics and Political Science 14/6/2012 The London Graduate Fair from The Careers Group and TARGETjobs.co.uk London 20-21/6/2012

  6. Where to look Vacancy publications Directories Employer brochures Specialist publications Careers Fairs Job Centres & LSCs Online sources

  7. 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/

  8. 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/

  9. Where to look Vacancy publications Directories Employer brochures Specialist publications Careers Fairs Job Centres & LSCs Internet Newspapers

  10. 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

  11. Where to look Vacancy publications Directories Employer brochures Specialist publications Careers Fairs Job Centres & LSCs Internet Newspapers Recruitment Agencies

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

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