How to Get the Best Graduate Job by David Williams

How to Get the Best Graduate Job by David Williams

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Summary

Provides a view of how graduate recruitment works, based on the observations of independent observers. This book reveals: how graduate recruitment really works; what you can do to work out where the jobs really are; what criteria employers use to deselect CVs and application forms; how to convince employers to offer an interview; and more.

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How to Get the Best Graduate Job by David Williams

400,000 graduates 60,000 jobs you need to know everything you can to make one of them yours. Two experts have been behind the scenes and observed the graduate recruitment process in top companies. They've seen how some students work the system and get those jobs. Here's how - and how you can too.
"compulsory reading" - Guardian Rise, July 2006
David Williams is a freelance journalist and a regular correspondent on recruitment issues for The Guardian and The Times. He contributes editorially to the Hobsons Careers Guides series, and his work has also appeared in The Independent on Sunday, The Irish Independent, Wanted Now, IT Now, CareerScope, The Author and Eat Japan. He is the author of Kicking: Following the Fans to the Orient (Mainstream, 2002) and he has been a guest on the Simon Mayo Show on Radio 5 Live. Phillip Brown and Anthony Hesketh are political economists. Their research into the graduate market made the lead story in The Times on March 29th 2004 and generated leaders in The Times, Daily Mail, Times Higher Education Supplement and Western Mail.  Phillip Brown is Research Professor at the top-rated Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. Books include High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness and Skill Formation (OUP, 2001), Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy (Palgrave, 2001).Has extensive media experience. Anthony Hesketh holds a PhD from the six-star rated Lancaster University Management School where he is currently a lecturer in the Department of Management Learning. He is the author of Beg Borrow or Starve (Lancaster Press, 1997) and his media appearances include Channel 4 News and Radio 4 News at Ten.
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ISBN 13 9780273703556
ISBN 10 0273703552
Title How to Get the Best Graduate Job
Author David Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Year published 2005-12-22
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.