How to Get the Best Graduate Job: Secret Insider Strategies for Success in the Graduate Job Market - Softcover

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David Williams is a freelance journalist and a regular correspondent on recruitment issues for The Guardian and The Times. He contributes editorially to the Hobsons Careers Guides series, and his work has also appeared in The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Independent, Wanted Now, IT Now, CareerScope, The Author and Eat Japan. He is the author of Kicking: Following the Fans to the Orient (Mainstream, 2002) and he has been a guest on the Simon Mayo Show on Radio 5 Live.

Phillip Brown and Anthony Hesketh are political economists. Their research into the graduate market made the lead story in The Times on March 29^th 2004 and generated leaders in The Times, Daily Mail, Times Higher Education Supplement and Western Mail.  Phillip Brown is Research Professor at the top-rated Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. Books include High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness and Skill Formation (OUP, 2001), Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy (Palgrave, 2001).Has extensive media experience. Anthony Hesketh holds a PhD from the six-star rated Lancaster University Management School where he is currently a lecturer in the Department of Management Learning. He is the author of Beg Borrow or Starve (Lancaster Press, 1997) and his media appearances include Channel 4 News and Radio 4 News at Ten.

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How to Get the Best Graduate Job

You’re a graduate (or you will be soon). You want one of those highly prized top graduate jobs. But you know the competition is tough and the odds aren’t in your favour. There are only enough proper graduate jobs for around 5% of UK graduates each year, so you know you need all the help you can get to make one of them yours.

This unique book provides an insider’s view of how graduate recruitment works, based on the observations of indpendent observers, and shows how you can use this insight to your advantage.

The book reveals:

·         how graduate recruitment really works

·         what you can do to work out where the jobs really are

·         what criteria employers use to deselect CVs and application forms

·         how to convince employers to offer an interview

·         the two possible strategies of Player and Purist – plus the advantages and   downsides of each

·         how some students work the system – and get the jobs

Phil Brown and Anthony Hesketh were the first independent researchers to be allowed inside the graduate recruitment process with large organizations. They sat in on interviews and assessment centres, and observed the post-interview discussions where decisions were made. Their findings make fascinating reading and are the vital advantage that any graduate needs to stand the best chance of getting one of the most highly prized jobs.

Discover exactly how graduate recruitment works – and how you can work it to your advantage.