Finding a job

The fact that you are reading this book shows you are interested in improving your chances of employment upon graduation. The Graduate Market in 2016 by High Fliers Research highlighted two important facts:

  • Almost half the recruiters who took part in the research repeated their warnings from previous years – that graduates who have had no previous work experience at all are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations’ graduate programmes.
  • Recruiters have confirmed that 32% of this year’s entry-level positions are expected to be filled by graduates who ...

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