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How to Make Your Skype Interview a Success

As a student, you should also learn effective professional and business communication. One important part of this is how to apply for jobs after graduation. You also use this knowledge and skills now as a student to get jobs to help you pay for your education and even living costs. Whether you are applying for […]

Important Tips for First Time Graduate Job Hunters

You should not let the job choose you. You choose your job. That is what there is to it. Determine what you would like for a job, specially your first job as a new graduate and know the ways on how get that job that you want. Here are some guidelines to help you. Choose […]

Competition Awards Unconditional Admission Offer

A contest could be the unique route of an aspiring student to admission into university. The winner of an advertising contest will be offered a completely unconditional slot by Falmouth University in its BA in creative advertising. The university aims to attract more talents to the course and make it more familiar to more people. […]

Private Employers Prefer Apprentices than Graduates

It appears that the value of the university degree has continued to decline. Private sector employers who would rather choose vocationally trained applicants to jobs have reached a number, at least, approaching the fifty percent mark. More than half of employees in the private sector are employed by small to medium sized enterprises. These employers, […]

Stay Employed with a Postgraduate Degree on Cyber Security

Have you come across an “ethical hacking course?”  No, it isn’t the new oxymoron.  It is Lancaster University’s cyber security programme offered alongside other institutions, like De Montfort University (DMU) and Royal Holloway University of London. The ethical hacking course programme provides a dual purpose: (a) allow MSc students to learn how hackers do their […]

How the US Economy Took-In Out-of-College Workers

The declining college numbers is proving to be a global phenomenon. Despite ranking top in the world’s higher education, the US student population is following a downside dip. The percentage of high school graduates opting to enter college decreased. According to the latest government data, “65.9 per cent of 2013 high school graduates were enrolled […]

Skills Matter, Not College Names

Before prodding to hunt for an educational institution, applicants and parents will have to do something.  Applying students opting to write a personal statement must pause for a break; together with their guardians, the following research studies must be perused. “Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables […]

Nigel Carrington on Creativity and Economic Success

The creative and cultural industries make up the second largest, and fastest growing, sector of the UK economy, worth £8 million per hour and accounting for 5.6% of jobs. This is the heart of Nigel Carrington’s reply to the recent recommendation released by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).  The Telegraph correspondent brought out the […]

Getting hired: Same old graduate dilemma

Obtaining the right skill to boost the graduate’s employment prospects seemed not to be apt at university. Employers continue to lament over the emerging graduates’ gap in skill; yet, they fail to perform their part of the deal. Available job internships can’t provide a proper fix. Experts characterised them as being “too short and not […]

Answering to the Space Industry’s Demand

The UK space sector is in dire need of highly skilled scientists and engineers.  The demand hasn’t seen any stopping in its growth.  In fact, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills forecasted a very appealing growth trend, marked at present up to year 2030. Unfortunately, the UK space industry’s demand hasn’t really pooled attraction.  […]

When Career Starts Before Graduation

A job, a decent job – these are catchy phrases nowadays.  Students who haven’t graduated yet, but are approaching their final year are restlessly considering their employment options.  Concerns continue to rock their consciousness: “Do I have the skills, the qualifications?” Fortunately, students are not alone in their query.  Universities, particularly its career centres, have […]

Better Job Prospects for Year 2014 Graduates

Finally, the month of February is showing some love to the graduating class of 2014.  This “love” comes in the form of prospects, job prospects to be exact.  Word had spread that this year’s job prospects have soared a bit higher, taking aim for more graduates. The poll has been conducted by the Association of […]

Pay Expectations: When female grads ‘undervalue themselves’

Gender gap is persistent in ruining the aspirations of the education and employment sectors.  This week’s featured victims are quoted as continually “undervaluing themselves” or are “less ambitious” in their career paths. The victims consist of female graduates – who just like their male counterparts, ply themselves off from universities and on to the waiting […]

Boosting Glasgow’ School-Leavers

A breath of fresh air came from Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow.  The recent education news has almost often been pegged as ‘bad news.’  This time around, it’s going to be about improvements, as well as, incremental steps that which made Glasgow’s Higher Ed prospects brighter. To start it, consider the following statement made by the […]

Fortifying Skills Education to Close the Skills Gap

Another set of figure is setting the government’s wheels into motion. The mission behind the figure is fundamentally about seeking employer’s perspectives regarding today’s labour market – the youth’s skill, or lack thereof. A total of 1,000 employers, from small, to medium and large-scale businesses, had been invited to participate in the poll. Recruitment managers, […]

Zero-Hours Contracts More Rampant in Universities than Other Work Settings

Zero-hours contracts have been controversial. They appear to have been overused in hiring employees in higher education. This employment arrangement enables employers to hire staff on an on-call set up where employees are paid on a no-work no-pay basis. Income is not guaranteed, employees are not able to get mortgages and there is no job […]

Basic Skills are Lacking in School Leavers

Estimates made by business leaders peg at a minimum of 40% the percentage of employers who need to give their own remedial training in English, maths and computing to new hires because teenagers have been struggling to function in their jobs. Passing examinations have been given too much emphasis by schools to the point that […]

Government to Give A-level Status to Tech-Levels

Starting 2014, technical courses for students ages 16 to 19 will be considered equal to A-levels if they get support from universities or businesses. The aim of the government in establishing the Tech-level qualification is to raise the status of vocational qualifications in England. The government aims to raise the level of vocational qualifications with […]

Internships and Work Experience as Students Give Graduates Competitive Edge

Internships and work experience as students are a plus factor for graduates when they apply for jobs. This is what results of a study conducted by High Fliers Research say. Based on this year’s survey, the chances of graduates who have internships and work experience when they are still studying being accepted in the first […]

Government Wants Unpaid Internships, Degree Classifications and University Ignored in Recruitment

The UK government has warned companies against putting too much emphasis on experience in unpaid internships, degree classification or university when screening job applicants. Employment aspirants who come from the more privileged background hold an unfair advantage over their less privileged counterparts when it comes to these two resume items, Universities Minister David Willetts asserts. […]