Graduate Careers:
Sometimes, your career choice will be obvious. You studied economics, so you should end up somewhere in the banking field. But sometimes you already know that is not for you. Take a look around here to get some tips on the careers out there.
Graduate Careers: Videos
For lovers of chemistry, biology and people, Andrew recommends pharmacy as a great way forward. Having ruled out farming (no time for summer holidays) and banking (maths A level put him off) he followed his passion and aptitude for Science, and as a pharmacist now enjoys the challenge and responsibility of making sure patients get the most appropriate medication and undertsand the drugs they are taking.
A degree in aeronautical engineering led Chris Open to a job at Rolls Royce. Eight years on he realised his interest lay in business management. Retraining opened the door to his research and development (reducing carbon emissions) post at E.ON. Chris combines his rewarding work with challenging out of work activities and is passionate about travel.
Janet O'Connell is a Senior Sister in the intensive care unit for babies at Addenbrookes Hospital. She had always been good with children, although it was only after having her own that she chose to retrain as a nurse. She describes a role model colleage "Just thinking about it now, I probably have become that person that I aspired to be, because I am in that senior role now."
Charlie Bush is a Marine Claims Assistant at Chaucer Insurance. He particularly enjoys being in London. "I've lived in the countryside all my life, and London's got that vibrancy about it, the kind of - a lot of my friends from both school and a lot of my friends from University have all ended up here. There's so much to do in London it's unbelievable."
Barabara Rumble is a Civil Engineer with the Environment Agency. She says "I am looking at the flood risk management... I suppose one of the incidents which really had an impact on me was big flooding in '97 in Poland". She would like to build bridges because "they connect land and people".
Graduate Profiles
How do you sum up a business like Grant Thornton? Put simply, we are part of a global organisation delivering audit, tax and advisory services to clients in over 100 countries. We are a complex, ambitious and dynamic organisation that delivers insightful solutions to over 40,000 clients in the UK alone.
Morgan Stanley offers a variety of Graduate Programmes and internship opportunities. All Graduate Programmes are designed to provide graduates with the knowledge and toolkit they require to quickly become effective and successful professionals. Training is not limited to the first weeks or months on the job but continues throughout the graduate's career.
Hearst Magazines UK, Hearst Corporation’s principal business in the UK, is one of the UK’s leading media companies with 24 magazine brands and 22 digital assets.
In an organisation that places collaboration and innovation at the heart of success, people are paramount. That’s why we’ve invested so heavily in our graduate programme; we want to create the future leaders of Logica
If you’re excited by a graduate career at the largest department store group in the UK, with a network of shops stretching from Aberdeen to Bristol, our John Lewis graduate scheme is for you.
If you’d like to be a future senior manager of a pioneering fresh food retailer that has been voted Britain's Favourite Retailer*, find out more about Waitrose graduate scheme.
When you join Balfour Beatty as a graduate or undergraduate, you embark on a career that will create a lasting impression. We're an industry leader operating across the entire infrastructure lifecycle. A company that has grown to become the first choice for more customers and graduates. And an employer offering graduate jobs on some of the most awe-inspiring projects out there
With a 100-year history of ambitious research and groundbreaking discoveries, we're experts in what we do. Our work has contributed to over half of the top cancer drugs used worldwide today, and we've been at the heart of the progress that has seen cancer survival rates double in the last 40 years. But there's still more work to be done
With Airbus, my career has an unparalleled rate of climb. A truly global enterprise of some 52,500 employees, Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer whose commercial know-how, technological leadership, innovation mindset and manufacturing efficiency have propelled it to the forefront of the industry.
Control some of the world’s most modern aircraft using radar and communications equipment
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