Students
Are you just about to embark on the next stage of your life by starting university or maybe you have year to complete your degree, either way thinking about your career and how to boost your prospects is key to a success in your chosen field.
The 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 and 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 types of experience that 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 is a global growing digital company and are at the leaders of student recruitment and education websites, with a reputation as the market leading organisation with a prestige reputation. Our client is looking to recruit an experienced Customer & Product Analytics Manager and to join a winning organisation and play a pivotal part within the company to lead a team of data analytics experts.
This role will be remote working.
Main Responsibilities
- Build and agree comprehensive annual, quarterly and monthly analytics plans and successfully increasing Web traffic.
- Influencing data infrastructure, inclusive of data warehousing, reporting and analytics platforms
- Supporting the success of web traffic and lead generation targets.
- Defining business opportunities
- Use data mining in search of critical insights
- Think of original ideas to identify new and innovative ideas to create ‘best in class’ analytics provision
- Investigate the latest tools and methodologies within the analytics community and propose their use within the business
- Develop a 360 Customer Data Platform with lead scoring based on demographic and digital interaction data
- Ensure that clear reporting is in place for KPIs and metrics to enable the business to iterate and improve. Create ‘real-time’ reporting dashboards for stakeholders to analyse campaign performance (utilising Tableau, Heap, GDS)
- Ensure that there is a clear narrative around the data so that trends and issues are reported back to management in a timely and effective manner
- Lead, develop and maintain a high performing team including setting KPI’s
Requirements
- Experience leading from the front and leading a team of 5 globally.
- Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on premises and cloud-based data sources.
- Understanding of Customer Data Platforms
- Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth efforts, increasing revenue and other key business outcomes.
- Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques
- Experience working with and creating databases and dashboards using all relevant data to inform decisions.
- Strong problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities.
- Expert using Google Analytics, VWO, data visualization tools such as Tableau and Google Data Studio
- Experience with Heap/Snowplow or other analytics tools
- Working knowledge of performance marketing channels (PPC, social media etc) and SEO
- Understanding of the C4C CRM platform
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a registered charity in the health care sector seeking a Graduate to come and join their team as an IT On-boarding and Support Assistant. The aim of this role is to provide onboarding and IT support to successfully deliver the online clinical examinations. This role will be home based so it is important to have a quiet environment to work from, a reliable internet connection and IT equipment to work from.
The role will be a FTC from 12th August - 17th September 2021. Working 18 hours per week based on shift patterns
Main Responsibilities
- To deliver onboarding training to candidates and examiners
- To develop a detailed understanding of the exam, how it is delivered online, the platform functionality and to be able to answer frequently asked questions from candidates and examiners
- To talk candidates and examiners calmly through the system features and functionality
- To proactively contact candidates by phone that have not turned up for their appointments
- To talk them through the login process and conduct onboarding
- To contact examiners to book appointments for them to go through the onboarding process
- To troubleshoot and problem solve issues experienced during the onboarding process, for
- example screen resolution, resolving audio, video and connection issues.
- To answer inbound IT support inquiries received into the IT support helpline, diagnose
- and resolve issues
- To engage proactively in the IT support chat group during the exams period and follow
- communication processes
- To communicate clearly and concisely to the operations team regarding the status of resolving issues
- To undertake any other duties related to the job purpose and which may be necessary in the college’s work
Requirements
- IT based degree (Computer Science/ Information Technology etc.)
- IT literate and comfortable getting up to speed quickly in using new IT software
- Good knowledge and understanding of computer hardware and browser settings.
- Able to adjust and optimise settings across a range of browsers and operating systems
- Able to diagnose and resolve a range of basic IT issues with audio / video / screen resolution
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Confident using the phone to communicate - some candidates will not have English as a first language and will be sitting the exam from overseas so clear, highly intelligible English speaking is essential
- Ability to talk calmly through system features and functionality
- Proactive and responsive in troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Good customer service skills and a high level of professionalism
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a registered charity in the health care sector seeking a Graduate to come and join their team as an IT On-boarding and Support Assistant. The aim of this role is to provide onboarding and IT support to successfully deliver the online clinical examinations. This role will be home based so it is important to have a quiet environment to work from, a reliable internet connection and IT equipment to work from.
The role will be a FTC from 12th August - 17th September 2021. Working 18 hours per week based on shift patterns
Main Responsibilities
- To deliver onboarding training to candidates and examiners
- To develop a detailed understanding of the exam, how it is delivered online, the platform functionality and to be able to answer frequently asked questions from candidates and examiners
- To talk candidates and examiners calmly through the system features and functionality
- To proactively contact candidates by phone that have not turned up for their appointments
- To talk them through the login process and conduct onboarding
- To contact examiners to book appointments for them to go through the onboarding process
- To troubleshoot and problem solve issues experienced during the onboarding process, for
- example screen resolution, resolving audio, video and connection issues.
- To answer inbound IT support inquiries received into the IT support helpline, diagnose
- and resolve issues
- To engage proactively in the IT support chat group during the exams period and follow
- communication processes
- To communicate clearly and concisely to the operations team regarding the status of resolving issues
- To undertake any other duties related to the job purpose and which may be necessary in the college’s work
Requirements
- IT based degree (Computer Science/ Information Technology etc.)
- IT literate and comfortable getting up to speed quickly in using new IT software
- Good knowledge and understanding of computer hardware and browser settings.
- Able to adjust and optimise settings across a range of browsers and operating systems
- Able to diagnose and resolve a range of basic IT issues with audio / video / screen resolution
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Confident using the phone to communicate - some candidates will not have English as a first language and will be sitting the exam from overseas so clear, highly intelligible English speaking is essential
- Ability to talk calmly through system features and functionality
- Proactive and responsive in troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Good customer service skills and a high level of professionalism
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a registered charity in the health care sector seeking an organised project manager for planning, delivery and evaluation of projects within an existing UK wide programme, and more wide-scale strategies.
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver elements of the programme, in line with contractual requirements and to satisfaction of key stakeholders
- Leading development, implementation and monitoring of sub-contracts for the provision of data collection and statistical support
- Delegation of tasks
- Act as a positive role model for the team, encouraging best practice
- Assess and manage risks, creating mitigation strategies
- Updating and production of planning documents, with clear deadlines and timescales
- Improving efficiency and turnaround time for project outputs
- Ensuring projects are maintained within legislative requirements and policy
- Oversee financial security of the programme, including budget management
- Identify funding opportunities, submitting proposals to new funders
- Ensuring effective planning and delivery ofmeetings, including evaluation and feedback analysis
- Attending meetings and conferences, encouraging participation in audits
- Ensuring confidentiality of health records and stored personal data, GDPR compliance
- Any other duties may be reasonably expected
Requirements
- Educated to degree level (relevant to public health)
- Experience using SPSS Software
- Project management qualification (PRINCE2 or similar)
- Complex project delivery experience, overseeing development of detailed plans and control processes
- Experience and understanding of managing clinical audit/research data within legal frameworks
- Line management and leadership experience
- Experience in clinical research, clinical audit or healthcare setting
- Financial management/analysing budgets
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office
Company & Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Recruitment Consultant to join our ever-growing Recruitment department in Aldgate, London.
Your main responsibilities as a Recruitment Consultant is to Provide effective, high quality, effective recruitment. To ensure that our service remains fully compliant recruitment support to organisations across the UK.
21 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays, 5% employer pension contribution, Employee Assistance Programme, Access to discounts)
Main Responsibilities
- Full ownership of 360 recruitment process for specified region (subject to change)
- Liaise with Operations Managers/ hiring manager on recruitment request
- Set vacancies live on and post adverts on various relevant platforms
- Use various platforms to proactively headhunt candidates, including social media platforms - Facebook, LinkedIn etc.
- Conduct telephone interviews for potential care staff which involves asking a set of scripted questions to find out people’s attitudes towards elements of the role, recording responses electronically
- Coordinating interview schedules and feedback with Operations Managers on a day to day basis
- Responsible for the efficient collection and collation of the required compliance documentation for all candidates recruited by the company
- Responsible for the efficient and effective candidate journey, upholding the Employer Brand
- Keeping the ATS up to date with relevant information and changes
- Regularly liaise with the Operations team to communicate, monitor and update recruitment needs and progress
- Carrying out a set number of telephone interviews and offers, to meet agreed weekly/monthly KPI’s, as outlined by your line manager
- Develop strong relationships with Operations Managers and key stakeholders to maximise the effectiveness of the recruiting process
- Research competitors and develop good understanding of your clients/ the market, in specified region
- Maintain and create relevant reports in accordance with all elements of the role in liaison with the Recruitment Management
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of CQC standards
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of Immigration laws
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of discrimination laws
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of the Disclosure and Barring Service
Requirements
- Experienced and proficient in the use of the Microsoft packages including Excel, PowerPoint and Word;
- Understanding of the HR information requirements related to the recruitment process;
- A good knowledge of recruitment policies and procedures, employment legislation, employment checking;
- Previous experience of the recruitment process;
- Previous experience of telephone interviewing from design to selection;
- Proven customer service background;
- Confident and professional communicator with staff at all levels;
- Understanding of employment law and how it relates to recruitment;
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines;
- Motivation, focus, consistency, accuracy to detail and strong time management skills;
- A Professional, polite and courteous telephone manner with excellent communication and listening skills;
- Previous experience of organising assessment days (Desirable)
- Relevant qualification in support of your recruitment experience (Desirable)
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a non-profit organisation with a passion for increasing the standards of healthcare provision in the UK. This organisation is committed to learning and developing opportunities to support building your skills and career with some fantastic benefits. Our client is looking for an experienced Head of Policy professional to come and join their team. The aim of this role is to manage company policies in line with the organisations regulations.
Main Responsibilities
- Own and keep under review regulatory framework, overseeing the development of regulatory standards, guidance and policy, ensuring relevant
- Build and oversee mature and productive relationships with key stakeholders and support achievement of wider strategic objectives
- Ensure the organisations framework standards are met
- Maintain a broad and deep key understanding of relevant policy, governmental and societal developments
- Providing clear and relevant briefings for senior leaders and ensuring an effective and agile organisational response
- Liaise closely with colleagues from across the organisation and relevant suppliers
- Work closely with Professional Liaison and Communications colleagues to ensure our standards are accessible and understood
- Provide thought leadership in regulations through an ongoing programme of publications and external engagements including promoting at conferences, meetings, working groups and other events
- Scope and delegation
- Responsible for the Policy and Strategic Relationships Department
- Manage Departmental budget operating within the budgetary limits and in accordance with financial policies, including preparing annual budgets, engaging suppliers and approving and monitoring expenditure.
- Deputise for the Executive Director of Professional Practice and Insight of absence as required.
- Model expected behaviours in delivering to the values of the organisation, including championing equality, diversity and inclusion in all you do
- Be accountable for a proactive approach to risk management and adherence to governance protocols ensuring risks and issues are assessed, reported and, where appropriate, escalated
Requirements
- Educated to a degree level or have equivalent skills & knowledge
- Background in regulation or healthcare profession
- Development of policy and guidance, preferably within a regulatory setting and/or the public sector
- Experience of developing and implementing a stakeholder management building effective with both internal and external stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of policy environments
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Proven influencing and negotiation skills to build strategic coalitions to deliver improvements
- Strong personal commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and ability to embed these values at the heart of policy work
- Professional Legal Qualification (Desirable)
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a leading firm based in the City of London who are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to support all aspects of marketing and branding.
Main Responsibilities
- Oversee campaigns and produce marketing materials through graphic design platforms.
- Organise and maintain documents, including brand folders.
- Create and develop print branded materials and work with graphic designers.
- Regulating the website and working with the Web Developer.
- Manage print advertising and create high quality ad graphics.
Requirements
- Experience in both marketing and graphic design
- Confident in creating content using graphic design platforms and WordPress and managing creative projects
- Strong team player
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a leading firm based in the City of London who are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to manage all aspects of their press.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage the Press Office and be responsible for functions, including distribution lists and media responses.
- Communicate the brand through both creating content, including writing exceptional press releases and requesting assets for campaigns.
- Monitor and research the media to identify opportunities.
- Oversee all PR strategies and create a strategy for media relations.
- Work with the marketing team to ensure that online content is executed in the style and tone of the brand.
- Be involved in preparing and delivering press events
Requirements
- Experience in a Press Officer role is ideal
- Experienced in producing and executing media coverage and successfully managing media relations by forming strong relationships with third parties
- Thorough knowledge of media channels
- Able to effectively communicate in an influential and impactful way, both written and orally.
- Previous experience with PR software
- Both in-house and agency media relations experience is desirable, but not essential.
Company & Role Overview
Our client is a leading firm based in the City of London who are looking for a bright and committed self-starter to be responsible for all things social media.
Main Responsibilities
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Developing social media strategies
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Taking full responsibility for all of the Group’s social media channels and websites
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Keeping up to date with current affairs/the news so that we can actively partake in discussions and posts via social media to stay relevant.
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Being responsible for the brand image through developing content; this can include creating videos and graphics. You will need to reach out to all areas of the organisation to find the content and stories.
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Create and develop print branded materials and work with graphic designers.
Supporting events by creating digital campaigns and strong coverage
Requirements
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Proven experience of managing social media content calendars, including generating ideas and creating content
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The knowledge of how to tailor posts to each different platform
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Previous experience with social media management tools, management systems and GoogleAnalytics
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Media relations experience is desirable, but not essential
Company & Role Overview
Our client is one of the UK's leading beverages company and are looking for an enthusiastic Digital Marketer to join their dynamic team in Essex
Main Responsibilities
- Producing creative content for social media platforms
- Researching and keeping up-to-date with trends in the drinks or fashion world
- Running the social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Pinterest
- Working with the Social Media Executive and Digital Marketing Executive to develop engaging social media banners and email campaigns
Necessary Skills
- Experience working in digital marketing, in particular working in a retail/ecommerce environment is desirable
- Experience creating content for different platforms
- Good at selecting lifestyle images
- Excellent team player
- Outgoing with innovative ideas
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