When you graduate there will be 10,000 other students graduating at the same time. London does not boast as many jobs available as there are seekers. Statistically some 25% of graduates will get employment within the first year. The remaining 75% will continue to search for employment for another year, and many even succumb to mediocre employment in retail shops, or try and approach large retail companies for supervisory/management positions or even government jobs such as the NHS, with the average salary being around £15,000 pa.

As an under-graduate, you are primed to believe you will be earning £25,000 pa and above after graduation. Think again! Very few get that opportunity. It is fierce competition in the business world, and companies will only select the very best.

 

What is the very best?

Intelligence and a first class degree does not promise you a secure high flying career. Chances are you will not get what you want. After graduation, during the first 2 years, chances are you will change your career focus three times or more.

Most under-graduates take it for granted that once they graduate with a top degree they will land on a job with a high paid salary.

Wrong!

You don't have anything special/unique to offer any company. There are thousands of others out there just like you. So you need to give yourself that edge.
As cruel as it may sound, employees perceive graduates as textbooks with little initiative and no business acumen.

Employers want experience.

You will inevitably apply for a graduate trainee position during your final year. These trainee programmes are not easy to get onto. Even then they ask for work experience.
To employers, the very best employees demonstrate the following traits:

  a) Strong learning abilities (your degree)
  b) Have work experience which demonstrates you are able to apply your skills and knowledge effectively
  (which you don't have)

The moral is YOU NEED WORK EXPERIENCE!

This is where you can give yourself the edge by working with us.

To make this even more exciting, trainees who perform consistently during the programme at the required competence levels are usually offered full time permanent positions within the company.

 

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