How To Get The Best Graduate Job
18 Jan 06

For the first time, a completely independent, authoritative view of how graduate recruitment really works.

How to Get The Best Graduate Job offers is a completely new source of information about how graduate recruitment really works. We can make this claim because political economists Phil Brown and Anthony Hesketh are the only independent observers ever to have gone into the assessment centres and analyse what actually happens during the selection process.

Only 5% of UK graduates are going to end up in a top graduate job. For each job they apply for there will be on average 19 other candidates fighting tooth and nail to beat them to it.

Graduate recruitment is a fierce, tough and mysterious world - to be the one who gets the job you need an edge.

Up until now graduates have had to rely on various unreliable sources for advice on how to get the best graduate job. They could believe and be terrified by the scare stories about interview techniques. Alternatively they could ask other graduates, but they’ll have their own subjective views. Many may seek advice from their parents, who have no experience of today’s recruitment process.

There is of course a lot of valuable advice freely available from the recruitment industry, but they work for the employers so can’t say anything too critical of the methods employers use.

The authors of this book, however, can be critical as they base their opinions on four-years of research at the heart of the graduate recruitment process (done as part of a funded project for The Economic and Social Research Council).

During their research the authors talked at length to employers and candidates, sat in on final interviews, watched the tests and group activities being conducted, and were even present during the private, post-assessment “washing-up” sessions when the employers made the final decision about which candidates would get a job offer.

What they discovered was that there were far fewer graduate jobs than anyone had realised, that the way that the successful candidates were chosen was arbitrary and subjective, and that some candidates had worked out how to manipulate the system in order to secure the jobs for themselves.

The 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
• How some students work the system – and get the jobs

	How to Get the Best Graduate Job
	Author	David Williams, Phil Brown, Anthony Hesketh
	Pub Date	22 Dec 2005
	Price	£9.99
	Publisher	Prentice Hall
	ISBN	0273703552
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