Mastering Your Graduate Job Search: Strategies for Efficiency and Impact
Embarking on your graduate job search journey can be both exhilarating and daunting. With exams on the horizon and perhaps a part-time job in the mix, it’s crucial to navigate this path with strategic precision. Here, we share not just tips but a blueprint for transforming your job search from a daunting task into an…
A Student’s Guide to Maximising Opportunities at Graduate Careers Fairs
Students and graduates have a lot of opportunities available to them, but it is important to know where they are and how to make the most of them. One such opportunity is a graduate careers fair, where you can meet potential employers and practice your networking skills. Most universities host a career fair at least…
The Top 5 Benefits of Working With a Specialist Graduate Recruitment Agency
The recruitment process for any company is a costly and time-consuming affair, especially so when the company works in a niche industry. Identifying the ideal candidates, fresh graduates with the necessary skills and potential becomes a lot more challenging when those skills are rare or highly-demanded in the job market. The solution to this problem…
Student to Technical Auditor: Nilupa’s Career Advancement at Greenhalgh’s Craft Bakery
Nilupa Weerakkody was one of our successful placement students from the September 2022 cohort, here Is why. Nilupa enrolled at the University of Greenwich for a Master’s in Applied Food Safety and Quality Management (AFSQM) with Industrial Practice. She started her placement search August/September 2021 after completing her laboratory-based research project on PCBs in Fish…
Planer Limited extends contract of top performing engineering student after successful placement
Planer Limited extends contract of top performing engineering student after successful placement Planer Limited is an engineering company located in Sunbury-On-Thames, Middlesex, that helps hospitals, research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and the IVF industry with the safe storage and preservation of medical and biological specimens. The Step Team spotted a job advert for a Production Technician…
5 Key Steps to Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile for Graduate Job Hunting Success
The significance of a polished LinkedIn profile for graduates cannot be overstated. Reflecting on a poll we conducted and revisiting it recently to gauge current trends, the results highlight the platform’s critical role in job hunting. With 38% of respondents deeming a complete LinkedIn profile “Extremely Important” and 29% rating it “Very Important,” the consensus…
Advantages of Using Step for Hiring University Graduates
Using the service provided by Step has a number of benefits that will not be available through similar free services offered by universities. One of these benefits is the value of Step’s network and database for employers. There have been several recent examples of successful businesses with close links with one or more local universities…
6 Tips on Getting The Most Out of Graduate Internships
Whether you’re a student exploring your career options or a new graduate with a clear career path in mind, internships offer exciting prospects to gain hands-on experience, understand the industry, and discover more about yourself. Internships can look very different depending on the company and the field. While online internships have grown in popularity, it’s…
Electrical Power Engineering student secures dream job at Eaton thanks to proactive job search strategy
Who is Vasili? Vasilii Urenev completed a Master’s in Electrical Power Engineering with Industrial Practice at the University of Greenwich. He already had a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Technologies from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Moscow, Russia. He was one of our exceptional students from the September 2020 cohort.…
How perseverance helped a Masters Student secure an Industrial Placement
Who is Bharat? Bharat Yadav completed a Masters’ in mechanical and Manufacturing with Industrial Practice at the University of Greenwich. He already had a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. He successfully secured a placement as a Student Proposals Engineer at Wozair Limited in October 2021. Wozair are HVAC specialist…