Graduates

The following information highlights the variety of opportunities available to graduates on completing their studies. It is highly recommended that you use the resources on the rest of this website, particularly the Applying for a Job section, for every type of vacancy you apply for. We offer tips and techniques that will put you ahead of the competition. Please also take some time to read our graduate profiles.

Graduate Training Schemes

Over 500 major employers in the UK operate recognised Graduate Training Schemes and promote these vacancies to University students. The schemes generally run over one and two years. Some will offer the opportunity to experience several different areas of a business before choosing a final career path. The advantages of joining a training scheme are likely to be:

• structured training programme;
• planned career progression;
• scope to develop your career within one organisation.

These schemes can be highly competitive, so to ensure you make an application of the quality required by the employers, please use the range of services the Careers and Employment Centre has to offer.
  Look at our Hot Tips on Graduate Job Seaching and Making Applications

Brookes Talent Bank advertises a large number and range of the Graduate Training Schemes across all sectors.

Further Sources of Graduate Training Schemes

The Graduate

Target

Graduate Recruitment Bureau

Graduate Prospects

Milkround

Employers websites and / or recruitment brochures

Newspapers

We also stock a number of directories and journals advertising current schemes.

• Prospects Directory
• TARGET Series
• Real World Magazine

You can pick these up free of charge from the Careers and Employment Centre in HKSC, or look out for us on the road at Gipsy Lane & Wheatley Campus Sites.

Graduate Jobs

The largest number of jobs available to graduates will be in small / medium sized enterprises (SME’s) or in large organisations in departments outside of the graduate training scheme. The advantages of joining a department or small / medium enterprise (SME) are likely to be:

• flexibility to incorporate special knowledge, qualifications or previous experience;
• greater variety of workload;
• work having more immediate impact on the organisation.

Brookes Talent Bank advertises a wide range of these Graduate Jobs

Further Sources

• Local employers who are known to recruit graduates
• Recruitment Agencies national and local
• The jobs and companies that graduates from particular degree subjects at your University entered after graduation. National destination information can be found in What do Graduates Do?
• Professional institutions may publish a list of member companies and also vacancies.
• Trade associations may list member companies.
• Newspapers

Local

National

International