Welcome to our July newsletter. Read on for more news from the world of graduate recruitment, including a cut in interest rates and info on how you could become the next member of the Graduates Yorkshire team!
Get "hired" as a graduate intern!
Forget Alan Sugar, this summer you'll be able to find the best Internships through Graduates Yorkshire. Just like the Apprentice, we'll be putting candidates for our new scheme through a rigorous recruitment program. Only really talented graduates need apply!
Internships are:
- Paid placements of 3 - 12 months with top employers right here in Yorkshire
- An opportunity to gain valuable work experience
- Full of added extras, like courses in presentation skills and commercial awareness
- The first step on the ladder to a great career!
There are loads of great opportunities on offer, but we're not quite ready to tell you about them yet. To make sure you don't miss out you need to add Internships to your jobs by email preferences.
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Not all doom and gloom for finance grads
We're being told by graduates that there are just no jobs. In fact, many of you seem to have given up on your job hunt before you've even started! The biggest culprits are graduates looking to start a career in finance, but did you know the regions biggest recruiter of finance graduates still has some final vacancies remaining for 2009?
Global finance specialists PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has offices throughout Yorkshire. Opportunities still remaining include roles in Risk Assurance Services in their Leeds office, and roles in Assurance & Public Services in their Sheffield office.
The company has been voted number one in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey for the last five years and considers graduates from any degree discipline, whether its art or science, with a 2.1 or above (and a 280 UCAS tariff or equivalent) interested in finance and keen to train and develop into the business leaders of the future.
Find out more about opportunities with PricewaterhouseCoopers here.
Join the team!
We need a Business Development Manager and 2 Project Co-ordinators to join the team and help run our brand new project in graduate internships.
Not only is a job working for us a great way to start your career, but you'll get to be part of something bigger than your average company. We operate as a social enterprise helping employers in our region find the best graduates around and helping to keep more of you guy's living and working in Yorkshire.
We're all really passionate about what we do and if you're passionate about Yorkshire too, then we'd love to hear from you!
Work in Richmondshire
This month we're launching a brand new initiative to let you guy's know all about the great jobs on offer in Richmondshire! Located in North Yorkshire, Richmondshire is home to the world famous Wensleydale Creamery and has loads of opportunities for talented graduates looking to settle into a real rural life and look out of their office window to rolling hills not concrete and cars.
Want to find out more? Then come along to our launch event on 14th July at Innovate Colburn when you'll get the chance to quiz our expert panel on opportunities in the region as well as how you can start your own business in Richmondshire.
There'll also be an opportunity to network with leading figures from local businesses over wine and nibbles, you may even meet a future employer! To find out more and RSVP to this event please email: info@graduatesyorkshire.co.uk
Important info for international students graduating now!
If you're an International Student and you've just graduated you need to be aware of your options. In 2008 the UK Border Agency introduced the Points Based Scheme which introduced changes to the options available to you.
If you're wanting to remain in the UK to work, you need to apply for a work permit. This can be a general work permit sponsored by an employer or a Tier 1 permit, for post study and highly skilled workers.
If you're unsure of your position and want to know how you qualify and apply for a work permit, we would recommend consulting an expert.
Morgan Dias is a specialist law firm in immigration and can offer specialist advice for foreign nationals working in the UK. Contact on 0114 2500665 or email info@morgandias.co.uk if you want to know more about your immigration status. Please mention the code GY003 when you get in touch. You can also visit their website at www.morgandias.co.uk.
Student Loan Interest rate cut to 0%
Great news for student loan borrowers, the Student Loans Company will apply 0% interest rate from 1 September 2009 - 31 August 2010 across the UK for all those who have an outstanding student loan taken out after September 1998. Great news for borrowers who will have 12 months to reduce there debt whilst the loan is interest free.
Join our twibe
If you're not Tweeting yet, why not? Not only is Twitter the new "big thing" in social media but you might even find yourself a job. TwitterJobSearch is a clever device that reads every newsfeed on Twitter and indentifies which ones are jobs. You can then search around 30,000 live jobs posted by recruitment agencies and job sites (including us) for key words such as industry and location.
What's more, by following us on Twitter you'll be kept up to date on all the top stories on graduate recruitment and careers, what's going on in Yorkshire and what it's really like in the Graduates Yorkshire office.
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