Where are the jobs How to find vacancies

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Where are the jobs? How to find
vacancies

• Tim Reed T.M.Reed_at_kent.ac.uk
• Careers Advisory Service
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/

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Introduction

• Where to look for jobs
• What else you can do?

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Where to look

• Vacancy publications www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/i
  ndex.htm
• Directories www.prospects.ac.uk
• Employer brochures eg. Mars _at_
  www.ultimategrads.mars.com/
• Specialist publications www.psychapp.co.uk/
• Careers Fairs

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CAREERS FAIRS SUMMER 2008 www.prospects.ac.uk/cm
s/ShowPage/Home_page/Careers_fairs/p!epkgfjsessio
nida63072e474b082E7B The Summer Graduate
Fair in Scotland Glasgow28/5/2008 Nottingham
Graduate Recruitment Fair Nottingham2/6/2008 Teach
ing Fair Grimsby2/6/2008 Graduate Recruitment
Fair Hatfield4/6/2008 Summer Recruitment Fair
Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus,
Reading5/6/2008 Graduate Recruitment Fair
Bath5/6/2008 Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair
Leeds5/6/2008 National Graduate Recruitment
Exhibition in Birmingham NEC, Birmingham6/6/2008 N
ewcastle Graduate Recruitment Fair Newcastle upon
Tyne9/6/2008 gradireland summer recruitment fair
2008 Dublin10/6/2008 Opportunities Fair 2008
Durham10/6/2008 Graduate Recruitment Fair 2008
Cardiff11/6/2008 The Graduate Recruitment Fair _at_
Manchester Manchester11/6/2008 The Northern
Ireland Graduate Job Fair University Of Ulster,
Jordanstown12/6/2008 University of Birmingham
Summer Fair Birmingham12/6/2008 The Guardian
London Graduate Fair from The Careers Group -
Summer 2008 London17/6/2008 Graduate Recruitment
Fair University of Southampton19/6/2008 Jobs fair
LSE, London19/6/200819/6/2008
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Where to look

• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres LSCs
• Internet sources

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Internet sources

• Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
  www.ipa.co.uk/
• Chartered Institute of Marketing www.cim.co.uk
• Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
• www.cipd.co.uk/
• Guardian vacancies www.jobs.guardian.co.uk/

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Excellent Websiteswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmen
.htm

• www.prospects.ac.uk
• www.get.hobsons.co.uk/
• www.kent.ac.uk/careers/
• www.kentgrads.org.uk/

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Graduate Salaries 2007/08

• AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) from 20,000
  final salary pension
• Police (HPD) 20,397(pc) - 41,034(inspector)
• Asda 23,000 minimum 10 discount card
• Marks Spencer 22,000 - 25,500 20 discount
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK Ltd 22,509 -
  30,000
• MI5 22,750 benefits (pay review pending)
• Sainsburys 23,000 (10 staff discount)
• Stagecoach UK Bus 23,000
• Civil Service 24,500 (London median)
• Unilever 26,000
• BP 28,000 2k on joining (in 2007)
• Mars 29,000 bonus
• ExxonMobil 30,000 - 34,000 minimum acceptance
  bursary extras
• BNP Paribas up to 35,000 2,000 sign on bonus
• Aldi 39,000 - 56,000 (after 3yrs) Audi A4

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Where to look

• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres LSCs
• Internet
• Newspapers

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Job ads in the presswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesp
ub.htm

• Actuaries - Money Management, Observer, Times
• Acupuncture - Journal of Alternative
  Complementary Medicine (m)
• Arts Administration - The Stage, Arts Management
  Weekly, Guardian (Mon Sat)

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Where to look

• Vacancy publications
• Directories
• Employer brochures
• Specialist publications
• Careers Fairs
• Job Centres LSCs
• Internet
• Newspapers
• Recruitment Agencies

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Recruitment Agencieswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/recrui
t.htm

• FASHION - George Ellis Recruitment
• MUSIC - Handle Recruitment
• ACCOUNTANCY - Hays Accountancy Personnel
• SECRETARIAL - Nice People Employment Bureau
• STOCKBROKING - Citifocus Ltd
• SPYING Bartlett Scott Edgar

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What else can you do?www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ
.htm

• ask your friends
• ask your relatives
• ask your network
• ask a careers adviser

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Next Steps

• Decide on the job you want
• Research employers
• Apply early
• Discuss your ideas if you are uncertain
• Change your job-hunting methods if they are not
  working

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Careers Advisory Service Website
http//www.kent.ac.uk/careers/