graduate2success

At one of the UK’s Top 10 graduate employers, just 8 out of every 1000 applicants will receive a job offer. Here’s why:

In 2008 278,080 full-time students graduated from university. Of these, 175,190 (63%) achieved a First Class or an “Upper Second” degree. (Source: www.hesa.ac.uk)
24.9% of employers advertise their graduate vacancies internationally. (Source: Association of Graduate Recruiters)
You are competing with 175,000 people who worked hard and got good degrees in the UK and also with bright and ambitious graduates from around the world.
There are fewer than 200 “most sought-after” graduate employers.

Some 80% of applicants fail to get through the online application processes.
You need to know how to identify key words which the employers will use to include or exclude you during this purely electronic stage of selection.

Around 60% of applicants who attend an interview are eliminated at this stage
All the “blue-chip” companies use face to face interviews that are “criteria based”. In other words, the questions will have been developed by psychologists to identify particular behaviours that are displayed by the company’s most successful people.
If you don’t know the “right way” to answer the questions, you will be one of the 60% who fail.

Some 60% of applicants who reach the assessment centre are eliminated at this stage
Assessment Centre skills often don’t come naturally even to the most confident, intelligent or well-educated candidates.
Alpha Males and Females tend to perform badly in Assessment Centres – they can be seen as too pushy and not good team players.
Even the strongest candidates need to learn how to demonstrate their skills to a potential employer and how to show themselves to best advantage.