Practise your psychometric test skills and get paid too!

A leading test provider wished to pilot some of their psychometric tests. They are looking for volunteers to complete a verbal and numerical test on 7th October and a personality profile on 10th October. Volunteers can attend either or both dates. Sessions will run from 1pm – 4.30pm and will take place [...]

Be in a DVD, earn some cash and get some assessment centre practice

We are looking for students or graduates to act as candidates in filming a DVD about assessment centres. The assessment centre being filmed is a real one used by HSBC for their HR graduate scheme and will give you great practice. The filming will take place sometime towards the end of November and [...]

Credit crunch – are there still graduate jobs?

They say a week is a long time in politics, the sentiment also applies to the finance industry right now! You might be feeling pretty nervous about your chances of finding a job right now, particularly if you are hoping to get into finance, or worse still if you started or were about to [...]

Never too late to find a graduate position through MGIP

We had our inaugral induction last Friday for the first intake of Manchester Graduate Interns. They are all starting their new graduate positions within Manchester today and we wish them all the very best.
The programme is just beginning and we still have plenty of internships on offer, so if you’re still in Manchester and [...]

Funded PhD Opportunity – Electrical Engineering

I’ve had a plea to promote this PhD research opportunity at The University of Manchester’s School of Electric and Electronic Engineering. As it comes with a tasty tax-free salary of £16,750 per year for three years I thought someone might be interested! Read the full details of the research project and how to [...]

GET a Directory to find 2009 graduate schemes

Just in, hot off the press is GET 2009. This is a free directory of thousands of graduate jobs for 2009 start. Collect a copy from the Careers Service and/or check out the website.

Part- time work as a way in…

Good morning, I’ve just returned from leave to a deluge of emails and information about the graduate market and have been pondering on what to blog about this week. It’s easy to get bogged down by the raft of gloomy statistics about the economy but in reality the majority of employers are forecasting that employment [...]