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Why can’t I get a job interview?

Ever got excited about applying for a job, thinking you were the perfect fit? You’ve got the qualifications, the skills and the company is your dream employer. However, weeks go by and you still haven’t been called for an interview. What went wro

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How to break into the creative industries with no experience

Getting a job in the creative industries gives graduates a Catch 22 situation: Most employers want you to show you have practical experience of working in industry, but as a graduate you need to get that first job to get experience.

How can you s

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Women’s Network puts female graduates on the map at Royal Mail

Royal Mail is a significant graduate employer undergoing a major transformation programme. At the heart of this change is its Operations function. Once seen as male dominated, more and more female graduates are making their mark thanks to an outstand

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Interns and female recruitment rises year on year as PwC fill half its graduate places in three months

Almost 19,000 students have applied to professional services firm PwC in just three months, setting new record levels of interest in the firm for the fifth year in a row.

The 14% increase in applications in the first three months of recruitment s

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Engineers: Making the leap from university to a job

You’ve put in the years of graft at university, gained the qualifications, built up some great work experience, so now it’s time to get yourself out there and grasp that dream job you’ve been working towards, says Annabel Williams, senior candi

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The importance of blogging for creative graduates

With mounting pressure on the graduate job market even the most ambitious university leavers are struggling to find work let alone their dream job. In July 2012 it was reported that as many as one in five UK graduates were out of work post University

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Getting a job through social media

Social media is becoming more and more important in hunting for that dream job. At Big Choice we understand that, so for our Careers Guide 2013 we decided to talk to someone who really knows his stuff about getting a job through social media.

That

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Job fairs: insider information

How do employers prepare for job fairs? What are they looking for? Seeing the other side of the coin is a useful way of tailoring your actions to be more successful.

These insights are written on behalf Marler Haley, a UK based company who have ma

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For students: How to prepare for the future

In an ideal world, we could all retreat into our safe, comfortable student bubbles for three or four years before bursting back into real life at graduation, brimming with knowledge and inundated with employment prospects. But as we all know deep dow

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More than half of graduates to be paying off loans in their fifties

Half of graduates will be paying off loans in their 50s under the new tuition fees, according to research.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies says it is more than likely that 56% of graduates will be at least 52 years old by their time their loan has

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