Step success – Collis Engineering Ltd.
At Step we’re enthusiastic about helping dynamic high-growth businesses access students and graduates for placements, internships or permanent roles. For constructive and balanced feedback on our work we like to hear about the candidate’s and the employer’s Step experience. We recently worked with Collis Engineering Ltd., an engineering consultancy operating in the rail signalling and infrastructure sector.…
Time flies when you’re having fun – Charlie Williams
Charlie Williams is a Manchester Metropolitan University student studying BA(Hons) Sport Marketing Management. She is currently on her Sports Marketing Sandwich Placement year at PUMA. Winner of the Step Blog Competition 2015 Suddenly I am already 2 months into my placement, I think the famous phrase is ‘Time flies when you’re having fun!’ So, where do I start?! I could…
Charlie Williams
Preparing for a Skype interview
At Step we use Skype a lot, whether it’s for an interview, a way of meeting the candidates, or to do your pre-start checks (passport check, payment schedule etc). It is still extremely important to be professional when using Skype, so we’ve listed a few tips to help. Is your Skype ID professional and appropriate? Remember…
The keys to graduate success…
‘My degree is next to worthless’… Well at Step we tend not to agree. This BBC article reports on the fact that it is not always possible to find a job directly related to your course of study, resulting in a feeling by some forlorn graduates of it all having been a waste of time.…
My Placement Diary – Miranda Williams
Miranda is a BA Business and Management Undergraduate at the University of Reading. She recently started a Step sandwich placement with Coppenrath & Weise, Europe’s largest producer of frozen desserts. We know interns can have a range of feelings at the very start of their placement as they are often entering the world of work…
A warm welcome – Gbenga Asaolu
Our guest blog is written by Gbenga Asalou, a Computer Systems Engineering graduate from the University of Northampton. He took an internship with B.I.G. (Brackets and Bolts) Ltd, who offer a custom fabrication design service and create an enormous range of bespoke metal work for construction contracts, including an ordering and delivery service all over the UK. Gbenga…
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…
6 reasons you could have been rejected
You’ve just spent hours upon hours applying for graduate jobs around the country and have lost count of how many times you have resaved your CV and cover letter. If that rejection email comes through, it leaves you feeling disappointed but mostly disheartened. Don’t wrack your brain for hours on end causing endless worry and…
Are you really on social media?
We don’t need media to be more social, but could our business personas do with a bit more attention? I am betting that most people reading this will have at least 3 different social media accounts. I myself have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and technically Google+ (although we are all agreed that no one really…
A positive environment – Charlotte Hewitt
Our guest blog is written by Charlotte Hewitt, an Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management Masters graduate from King’s College London. She took an internship with Avondale, who provide vegetation management solutions for high risk industries, and has recently secured a permanent role. I started on my internship as a trainee ecologist with Avondale Environmental Services a month after initially…
