Insight blog: Careers & Employment

Detailed insight for student recruiters who want to target the UK’s most intelligent students. Articles range from current employment trends in the student community to the type of careers and employment options students are exploring and how best to target them.

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The Apprentice: Week 2 and Weak Candidates: Students remain uninspired by a continued lack of creativity

As the clock struck 9, another Wednesday night was illuminated by active live-blogging to The Apprentice on The Student Room. Read More »

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The Apprentice: Students on TSR react to round 1

With the eighth series now underway, students put their work and interview experience into practice to assess the first feat of Sir Sugar’s latest hoard of entrepreneurial hopefuls. Read More »

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Students are fired up by the return of ‘The Apprentice’

Students have swapped the interview chair for the other side of the desk and donned their recruiters’ caps to scrutinise Sir Sugar’s entrepenurial hopefuls, as The Apprentice returns for 2012! Read More »

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Dorset apprentices show that they are the best in the country.

Eight young people from Dorset have been named the winners of The Brathay Apprentice Challenge’ and given the title of ‘Apprentice team of the year’, the team came from aerospace firm Cobham. Read More »

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Human Resources is a sector that graduates struggle to approach correctly.

World leading HR service group Penna is launching its first graduate and apprenticeship scheme, the ‘Penna Development Programme’, which will provide two graduates and two apprentices the unique opportunity to embark on an eighteen month programme being placed into various areas of the services offered by Penna. Read More »

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Students show enthusiasm for a degree in Journalism

There are quite a number of students on The Student Room who are applying to study a degree in Journalism (entry 2012), so one student, who goes by the username Fruitcake_OX, has decided to start a Read More »

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Hundreds of apprentices told that placements will not start as planned.

Pearson owned Zenos IT training provider, that runs thousands of apprenticeship programmes yearly, has notified 300 candidates, scheduled to start their apprenticeship placement in early January, that they will no longer begin as planned. Read More »

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Nearly 2 thirds of graduates come out with a 1st or upper second class degree, but admissions numbers begin to fall.

Hesa statistics reveal that 53,215 (one in six) graduates were awarded with a first class degree last summer. A 5% fall in undergraduate enrolment has been reported this year with a total of a 1% fall in UK students enrolled at UK universities. Read More »

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Students put age before gender when it comes to workplace woes

With the gradual increase of women in the boardrooms, TSR members talk female bosses, but put age before gender as the bigger issue when it comes to workplace tensions. Read More »

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20% of firms prefer school leavers, as graduates have ‘unrealistic expectations’

A recent survey by Adecco of 1,000 recruitment firms reveals that more than half think that graduates have unrealistic expectations of the workplace whilst one in three felt that the education system is failing to equip the next generation with the skills needed for businesses in Britain. Read More »

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