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What you need to know

Find out where to start on your graduate career hunt. Discover where you can find your first graduate job, what a graduate programme is and learn about your options.

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Consider your skills interests and values. Think about what you studied, your hobbies and your work experience and ask yourself what makes you happy and what are you good at. Then think about working life: do you want to relocate? Would you prefer to work remotely? When you have your criteria, search our job descriptions and vacancies to find your best fit.

A graduate programme is a structured employment programme offered to recent college graduates. Graduate programmes tend to be fixed term and often have rotations to allow you to experience different parts of the business and decide what role is the best fir for you.

Graduate programmes help you get an insight into the company you are working with and the different departments you can work in. These programmes offer an overall view of the business but also allow you to specialise. Because they are aimed at recent graduates, they also tend to provide you with great mentorship and training.

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