You know more than you think you do – Rebecca
Rebecca is a Fine Art New Media graduate from the University of Southampton. She recently completed an internship in Social Media / Digital Marketing with Sea Island Coffee. When I was a teenager I was adamant I was going to be a Disneyland princess; singing, dancing and waving from the big floats, the whole shebang. Alas my voice…
Rebecca
Cakes and Social Media – Emma Lydon
Today’s guest blog was written by Emma Lydon a Fashion Communication graduate from The University of the Creative Arts in Epsom who took on an internship as a Digital Marketing Assistant with Katy Sue Designs. She has recently been taken on permanently by the company. My Step Placement experience started when I stumbled across an advert for…
Emma Lydon
Graduates, innovation and growth
One of the main issues raised by clients when discussing their future talent needs with us is the increasing challenge of finding suitably experienced hires. As a result, more and more are looking at new graduates as a part of a longer term strategy to support their business growth plans and related skills needs.…
Alice Death: Food & Future Employers; Advantages of Aquent
Our guest blog is written by Alice Death, a Marketing student from the University of Reading, who recently completed a recruitment placement via Step at Aquent; a recruitment agency specialising in a wide range of Marketing jobs across the UK. Wow- what a 12 weeks it has been. I can’t believe how quickly this internship…
Alice Death
Sam Stevenson: Summer, Step & Shredall
Our guest blog is written by Sam Stevenson, a Business student from Nottingham Trent University, who recently completed a Data Migration Internship with Step at Shredall; one of the UK’s largest independently owned shredding, document storage and document scanning companies. At the start of my second year at Nottingham Trent studying BA Business, my plan…
Dealing with the crocodiles nearest to the boat – Fay
Fay is a business and management student from Brunel University who recently completed an undergraduate internship as a project manager for CA Support Services Project Management was always something I enjoyed, and I realised after assisting and managing a variety of projects at university, that this was certainly a field I wanted to expand my…
Fay
Lies, damned lies and graduate starting salaries
What is the current average graduate salary? And does it matter? Last week the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR)told the world that new graduates could expect to earn a salary in the region of £28,000 and since this was the average, one could expect that even better graduates could earn even more. Straight out of university. The…
Not another lecture on the importance of communication skills
“I have good communication skills…” That’s brilliant. But are you really communicating with me when you say this? If I am your prospective new manager, I want to get a sense of your personality. I want to know how well you can adapt your tone and choice of language. I need to see if you…
Recruitment; No Regrets – Alan Kirby
Our guest blog is written by Alan Kirby, a Physics student from the University of Liverpool, who recently completed a recruitment placement via Step at Service Care Solutions; a recruitment agency specialising in a wide range of social care jobs across the UK. Just before the summer, I applied for a summer internship with a…
Jason Ford: Waterslides at work…
Our guest blog is written by Jason Ford, a second year business studies student from the University of Liverpool, who recently completed the APSCo Intern Programme with Step at Service Care Solutions; a recruitment agency specialising in a wide range of social care jobs across the UK. I had no idea what to expect the…