Students
Are you just about to embark on the next stage of your life by starting university or maybe you have year to complete degree, either way thinking about your career and how to boost your prospects is key to a success in your chosen field.
Organisations we work with want their graduates to not only have the theoretical knowledge but some practical experience. They will ideally want you to demonstrate some exposure to a professional working environment or certain technologies within their field.
Our consultants are here to point you in the right direction from the earliest point.
What Degree to work towards
No one can answer this for you, it is really down to you
We would say
- Pick something you will enjoy – remember you are paying
- Pick a degree relevant to your chosen field. This doesn’t have to be rigid. For example, if you are interested in both accounting and fashion, you could find a course that closely combines the two, do a year in industry or do a masters after you complete your initial degree.
How to make yourself more employable
(It’s not as boring as it sounds)
Post Graduate Degree – Further Education
According to the Independent newspaper, as more people are obtaining undergraduate degrees, many are turning to postgraduate degrees to set them apart in the competitive job market. In most cases, a postgraduate qualification also boosts earnings.
Placements/ Work Experience
A placement/work experience is a period of temporary work within a specific industry. This can range from being a few days up to a year. On average they last around 3 months.
University based Placements
A placement may already be part of your degree. This is known as a sandwich placement. This usually means your course may consist of an extra year or it may just be one term spent working within an organisation. Thinking about courses that offer these placements will boost your employability and is a big bonus, however if this not part of your chosen course you can still seek out your own.
Finding your own placement
If you have already started your degree and you do not have a placement set up start NOW. We recommend that you do not wait until you graduate. As you know the job market is highly competitive and showing early commitment will set you apart. When trying to gain a placement be as creative as possible use your network. Talk to friends and family and use social media. If you’re in a position where you have graduated and are job-hunting, don’t be dismayed, there are plenty of other experience you can discuss in your CV/ at an interview.
Part Time Employment
The part-time employment that you will typically find at university will be retail or hospitality opportunities. Yes, these jobs are vital to keep you financially stable, but they will also help develop the attributes, skills and mannerisms that employers demand.
A good idea is to log down important events and challenges especially if you have played an instrumental role in bringing them to life or over-coming those challenges at work. This allows you to have concrete examples and evidence of what you have done/learnt. These will provide valuable in interview and competency based scenarios.
Societies/positions of responsibilty
Firstly, joining societies is one of the best parts about university. Making new friends, being part of a team, going on trips, the occasional drink (oh we remember).
However, if you are an officer/organiser/leader in your society you will develop key skills, such as time management, decision-making, and research.
Employers will want to see that you have had a position of responsibility and this fun way of demonstrating you have it.
If your role is to participate there is also value in this. Employers will look at your membership as an example of commitment and it also show you have a “personality” and are a well-rounded individual.
Looking For Jobs

Company & Role Overview
Our client a leading chartered accountancy firm are looking for an organised Audit Supervisor possessing strong planning and delegation skill to join their busy team. You will be working with organisations of every type and size. Clients are active in all branches of commerce and industry, ranging from substantial corporations to small businesses. The ideal candidate for this role will hold least 3 years experience.
Main Responsibilities
- Prepare and assessment of statutory accounts in line with UK GAAP/FRS102
- You will report to an audit manager and/or Partner
- You will be responsible for the planning and implement audits (which cover a wide range of client types and sizes) in accordance with the International Auditing Standards
- Budgeting and bringing the audits to completion
- Ensuring client expectations are met to a high standard
- Managing audit trainees, reviewing their work, assisting with their development and performance evaluations
- Drafting corporate tax calculations
- Good team player
- Able to lead large audits
Requirements
- ACA qualified
- Audit experience with a wide range of clients
- Capable technical ability
- Well-rounded leadership and managerial skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise workloads
- Exceptional communication skills
- Exceptional organisational skills

Company & Role Overview
Our clients who is a leading chartered accountancy firm is looking for an experienced Audit Manager to join their busy team. You will be working with organisations of every type and size. Clients cover all divisions of commerce and industry, ranging from large to small businesses. The ideal candidate will be a skilled manager with a specialised services background.
Main Responsibilities
- Accountable for a portfolio of corporate clients across a wide-ranging of industries
- Managing client relationship and ensuring that expectations are managed accordingly
- Plan, overseeing, and reviewing audit, accounts, and corporation tax work
- Preparing and reviewing statutory accounts in line with UK GAAP and FRS102
- Supervise junior staff and assisting any queries on technological and professional development, including conducting periodic appraisals
- Performing billing management
- Administration duties
- Ad hoc business consultancy and any duties in line with the role
- Support in producing new business
Requirements
- ACA qualified
- At least 5 year audit experience within a specialised services environment
- Experience of UK GAAP, FRS102, and IFRS
- Experience in managing audits
- Capable technical ability
- Familiarity of corporate tax, personal tax, and indirect tax
- Proven leadership and supervisory skills
- Be able to organise and prioritise workloads
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft packages
Company & Role Overview
Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a Hearings Team Manager to join their team. This role with involve dealing with leading, motivating and managing a team that often works remotely and is responsible for the delivery of a high volume of hearings. Ensuring, through coaching, support and guidance of individuals, a strong team ethos and collaborative working with colleagues across the department. Be accountable for the quality, volume and timeliness of your team’s work.
Main Responsibilities
- Effectively prioritise and manage work and hearings, ensuring the best use of available resources to meet business needs and identification of future resource requirements.
- Manage a team who works remotely in hearings, being able to coach and support direct reports to problem solve and overcome obstacles or issues that supports the delivery of their work and the smooth running of all hearing types.
- Manage and lead the performance of the team by ensuring sufficient support, guidance and direction is provided and that human resource issues and any poor performance is managed quickly and effectively.
- Control hearing risks through the undertaking of appropriate checks at all stages of the process, making recommendations and escalating high-risk hearings to Operational Managers.
- Support the Operational Manager to promote and embed within the team a culture of continuous improvement and values that are consistent with the company values.
- To continuously monitor, identify, assess, mitigate, remediate, and appropriately escalate risks, not only within their area of responsibility but also across the organisation.
- Manage and motivate direct reports by providing direction and setting clear objectives and behaviours through effective performance reviews. Assure and be accountable for the quality of your team’s work.
- Manage autonomously and through direction, advice and support to individuals or team, any challenges or issues that arise in relation to the scheduling or management of hearings, whether from internal or external source.
- Analyse and recommend improvements to processes and systems in order to address the learning needs identified, then implement agreed actions to increase quality, productivity and efficiency
- Responsible for reviewing and authorising financial claims relating to hearings.
- Assist with the appointment and recruitment
- Responsible for ensuring the public facing Register is accurately updated to reflect the outcome of a hearing.
- Using available data and own analysis, drive the performance and productivity of your team to ensure performance objectives and indicators are consistently achieved.
- Responsible for the adjudicating of postponement requests made in advance of a hearing.
- Review and respond to challenges and complaints about the decisions made and service provided by your or other teams, ensuring that learning for individuals or the team is identified and implemented.
- DS Checks This role may bring you into contact with, or allow access to information relating to children or vulnerable adults.
Requirements
- You will have significant experience of managing a team and resources, including demonstrable ability and understanding of performance management and coaching.
- You will have a high level of written English and verbal communication skills, and an ability to use your initiative to work effectively under pressure.
- Your strong communication skills will enable you to work effectively within a team and with your peers, to build and maintain positive relationships across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- You will be able to work closely with a range of people involved in fitness to practise cases (including our external Partners, external legal services provider and Case Management Team)
- Have a strong understanding of regulation and experience of working with/interpreting legislation.
Company & Role Overview
Our client has an exciting new opportunity for a Customer Service Operative to join their team as part of the Government Kickstarter Scheme. This role with involve dealing with many customer queries.
Main Responsibilities
- Managing the email address – responding to queries, updating customer accounts and ensuring any customer issues are resolved effectively.
- Managing any customer queries through our social media platforms ensuring we are clear and help any prospective or current customers with any questions they have.
- Building basic reporting to help track, manage and improve our efficiency and effectiveness across our communications.
- Helping with general administrative tasks across the team to ensure the business runs smoothly.
- Report any feedback to the team on any ongoing issues or areas we can make Wild even better for our customers.
- This will be predominantly email/chat/social media based but there may be times where you will need to call customers to resolve specific issues.
Requirements
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Able to analyse problems and find positive solutions
- Willingness to work as part of a team
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Friendly yet professional writing manner
Company & Role Overview
Our client in the health and lifestyle industry has an exciting new opportunity for a Digital Marketer to join their team as part of the Government Kickstarter Scheme. The purpose of this role is to develop strong and advanced digital marketing techniques to drive traffic to company pages and generate interest in company products and services.
Main Responsibilities
- Create and manage link building strategies, content marketing strategies, and social media presences
- Innovate and present new marketing platforms and strategies
- Develop engaging online content
- Forecast marketing campaign growth
- Manage email and social media marketing campaigns
- Contact, interview, and hire third party graphic designers, web designers, and videographers to create unique and engaging content
- Use Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and other relevant sites
- Drive traffic to company pages
- Keep abreast of new social media sites, web technologies, and digital marketing trends
Requirements
- Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
- Editing
- Self-Motivated
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Team-Oriented
- Goal-Oriented
- Strong Attention to Detail
- Content Management Systems
- Microsoft Office
Important Requirements - Kickstart Scheme
- Be between 16 – 24
- Must currently be on universal credit
Applicants must meet the Criteria set out by the UK Government to be eligible for the Kickstart Schemer - Full details can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rishis-plan-for-jobs-will-help-britain-bounce-back
Company & Role Overview
Our client is looking for a committed and reliable Administrator to join their fast growing team as part of the Kickstart Scheme on a 6 month contract. For this role you will need excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will be working within the group of administrators to ensure the efficient running of the business.
Main Responsibilities
- To proactively support a fast-paced, busy team with all administrative duties
- Answering all incoming calls and taking messages as required
- Monitor email inboxes, responding to queries and updating records
- General typing and administration for partners and staff, including creating and updating various documents
- Regularly update and maintain the databases, ensuring all contact details are kept up to date
- Keep the area tidy and organised
Requirements
- Experience of working as a Receptionist/ Administrator
- Skills in MS Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint, together with good IT skills
- Fast typing speed
- Excellent communication skills both with staff, clients and over the telephone
- Excellent organisational skills with a confident, professional and polite telephone manner
- The ability to work under pressure and multi-task
- To be self-motivated with the ability to work as part of a team and alone, on own initiative
Important Requirements - Kickstart Scheme
- Be between 16 – 24
- Must currently be on universal credit
Applicants must meet the Criteria set out by the UK Government to be eligible for the Kickstart Schemer - Full details can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rishis-plan-for-jobs-will-help-britain-bounce-bounce-backCompany & Role Overview
Our client is a leading infrastructure firm who are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to join the Marketing team.
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver a strong social media presence across various platforms
- Respond to engagement and enquiries within a timely manner
- Manage Wordpress websites (uploading, updating)
- Develop marketing collateral
- Help ensure great content
- Plan internal and external events and exhibitions
- Establish relationships with other teams so not to miss out on any photography/videography opportunities
- Report to the Head of Marketing & Communications
Requirements
- At least 3 years’ experience in b2b marketing role
- Confidence, self-starter
- Willingness to travel
- A keen interest in politics and current affairs
- Enjoys using all forms of social media
- Excellent copywriting experience
- Organised and committed
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a tech start-up company who are based in the heart of London. They are currently recruiting for a Head of Growth role which will be a very hands on position within a small team and will focus on driving growth strategy for the start-up. The individual will need to be willing to get involved with various sides of the marketing responsibilities and will be a real self starter with a passion for start-ups and growth.
Main Responsibilities
- Produce and present growth reporting
- Report directly to the founders
- Running the Growth process to generate and prioritise and turn them into conclusive tests
- Work on new ideas and test them within a timeframe
- Liason with freelancers to produce high quality customer experience
- Working to tight deadlines
- Managing other members of the small team
- Generate and prioritise ideas and turn them into tests
- Be responsible for all growth related tasks
Requirements
- Hands-on experience creating and implementing growth strategy
- B2C experience
- Being able to put strategy into practise
- Well organised
- Great energy
Remote working whilst in lockdown
Competitive salary and equity/shares in the company
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a top infrastructure specialist firm.
They are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to join the Public Affairs team.
Main Responsibilities
- Understand and engage in policy issues
- Support strategy planning for engagement
- Overseeing research and providing summaries
- Intelligence reporting
- Preparing briefings for meetings with MPs, Civil Servants, Local Authorities, Stakeholders and Ministers
- Drafting parliamentary correspondence
- Supporting conferences and events
Requirements
- At least 2 years’ experience in a similar role
- Strong copywriting skills/ability to produce content across all channels
- Confidence to communicate with stakeholders/press/influencers
- A keen interest in politics and current affairs
- A track record of targeting and achieving with the media
- Excellent telephone manner

Company & Role Overview
Our client that operates within the education industry are looking for an enthusiastic HR & Payroll Executive to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have experience in end-to-end processing and dealing with complex payroll.
You will report to the Human Resources Director (HRD)
Main Responsibilities
- Processing the monthly Payroll for 500 employees accurately, to deadline and to meet audit requirements (salary, commission, bonus, year-end journals, pension etc)
- Responsible for managing the HRIS and time and attendance updates
- Regularly reviewing existing benefits and providers including current usage, performance, cost. and assessing risk and reviews if increase required
- Supporting the HR team and Divisions with employee related queries and issues
- Closely working with Hiring Manager to fully assess requirements of Division including: creating clear and concise JDs, job adverts and ensuring consistent brand messaging
- Reviewing best method of recruitment, utilising appropriate platforms fully
- Reviewing current brand /employer engagement with a view to assessing our options to increase presence on social media platforms
Requirements
- Some experience of handling ER issues
- Up to date knowledge of UK Employment Law and ability to keep abreast of legislation and impact on the business
- IT literate, confident in using HRIS systems, excellent knowledge of MS Word; advanced level Excel and strong Power Point
- IT literate, confident in using SUN or HRIS systems, excellent knowledge of MS Word; advanced level Excel and strong Power Point
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