GC Top Tips: Applications & CV’s
How to Promote Yourself to Gain Multilingual Opportunities
If you are talented enough to speak several languages and are currently studying, you could be in the very beneficial position of people able to travel abroad to study or even work during a gap year. Experiences like these are incredibly useful to have on a resume once you graduate, as they’ll make you stand
How to get a Graduate job without experience?
After graduating from university the real work begins. Many young students today finish university with mountains of debt. The most reasonable expectation, after obtaining that degree, it that they will sail into a high paying job and all their financial worries will disappear. This is often the opposite of what actually occurs in the job
Applying for Graduate Programs – what process should I expect?
The end to end application process will differ from one graduate program to another depending on the industry and the rigour which the HR department put into their recruitment process. However, across the top companies, there is a common recruitment process which you can often find on the companies’ website. For most FTSE 100 companies and the
What are my transferrable skills?
During your time at university or in any job, you will pick up what employers or recruitment professionals often refer to as transferrable skills. Transferrable skills are vital for securing new jobs and opportunities and getting onto graduate programs. Identifying what you see as your transferrable skills will help you sell your capabilities to potential
Writing a great CV – Top 10 tips
A CV for those who aren’t aware is an acronym for the Latin, Curriculum Vitae, which effectively means the ‘course of my life’. Now, obviously, most employers aren’t interested in the entire course of your life and a CV is more about your academic achievements and working life. However, a CV or resume, is your
Careers fairs for students
During your time at university, there will be numerous ‘careers fairs’ or such events where top graduate employers come onto campus to pitch what their graduate programs have to offer. This gives you a great opportunity in an open and honest safe environment to ask all the questions you want answers to. Don’t waste these
Tailor your CV when applying for jobs – Top 5 tips
In this tough current job market, it is very tempting to create a generic CV (or curriculum vitae) when applying for numerous jobs to send to recruitment consultants and even to HR departments in a purely speculative fashion. Graduates need to resist this temptation and create a CV which is tailored when applying for jobs and
