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