Undergraduates: it’s never to early to start planning your career

Undergraduates: it’s never to early to start planning your career

by Matthew Parry | Jul 27, 2022 | Graduate Blog

The time to start planning ahead for a graduate career is from when university starts (or even before). This may seem extreme, but every day I speak with graduates who wish they had been given this advice when they started university. You need to visualise how your CV...
Graduates: your learning shouldn’t finish once you have left university

Graduates: your learning shouldn’t finish once you have left university

by Matthew Parry | Jul 27, 2022 | Graduate Blog

You may be finding it difficult to find a graduate opportunity. If you can’t get a job related to your degree then it’s important to try and get some kind of work to keep yourself going and develop skills that will be valuable in any career. But it’s also...
Managing job offers for undergraduate placements and graduate jobs

Managing job offers for undergraduate placements and graduate jobs

by Matthew Parry | Mar 3, 2022 | Graduate Blog

When applying for graduate jobs, and getting interviews, it can sometimes be difficult to balance them. For example, you may get an offer for a job, but have another interview for another opportunity booked in. Or you may be lucky enough to get two offers to consider....
Alternative career options for graduates, and how SME employers can benefit

Alternative career options for graduates, and how SME employers can benefit

by Matthew Parry | Mar 2, 2022 | Employers, Graduate Blog

Alternative career options for graduates, and how SMEs can benefit The pandemic has restricted student and graduate employment across some career types, meaning that many graduates who have studied aligned degrees have had to adjust their career plans, resulting in...
The SME Graduate Employment market for 2022- some predictions

The SME Graduate Employment market for 2022- some predictions

by Matthew Parry | Feb 3, 2022 | Employers, Graduate Blog

In January 2021, I predicted how the SME graduate employment market may develop over the coming year. There was great uncertainty at that stage, and a lot depended on when (or if) the pandemic was brought under control. Some areas I covered included: concern over how...
The future of home working post-Covid

The future of home working post-Covid

by Matthew Parry | Jan 10, 2022 | Employers, Graduate Blog

Working from home and the potential implications for graduates and other younger team-members I haven’t measured it but there does seem to be more graduates I speak with who are looking to work from home than there was in 2021, with some actively looking at...
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