Graduates: “Be Your Best”
– IT Jobs for Graduates Launches Comprehensive Recession-Busting Advice
Programme for Future IT pros
IT Jobs for Graduates, http://www.itjobsforgraduates.com, has launched an
initiative called ‘Be Your Best’, http://beyourbest.itjobsforgraduates.com,
offering job hunting tips and advice for IT graduates and students during the
current economic downturn.
The first site dedicated to IT recruitment for interns and graduates, IT
Jobs for Graduates works with some of the UK’s leading employers and IT
recruitment agencies, helping candidates to find the right jobs. The website
offers 1,800 internship and graduate programmes, as well as entry level
vacancies on behalf of recruiters.
‘Be Your Best’ has been created to arm students and graduates looking for
IT jobs with useful industry insight. The information is designed to help
them stand out from the crowd and market themselves in the best possible way
to potential recruiters, during the recession.
Following feedback from IT managers and recruiters, the team at IT Jobs
for Graduates has created a knowledge centre. And, throughout May, June and
on areas including:
- How to make the most of networking opportunities
- What the best IT certifications are
- Managing your own brand
- The reality of the current IT internship/graduate recruitment market
A micro-site has also been launched,
http://beyourbest.itjobsforgraduates.com, where students and graduates can
provide their feedback, by sending in their stories and videos on something
they did to really stand out from the crowd. And, updates for the campaigns
will be going on to a twitter page, http://twitter.com/itjobs4grads, and also
via the IT Jobs for graduates Facebook group ‘IT begins here’.
In conjunction with the online support, IT Jobs for Graduates will also
be holding seminars at selected universities across the UK throughout June.
Here, the team will run presentations and provide face-to-face advice on how
students can ‘Be Their Best’, they will also provide mini CV workshops.
commented: “We are committed to providing graduates with the tools to help
them secure the right job. In the current climate, competition for employment
is fierce and it is vital that job applicants market themselves in the best
way possible.
“The ‘Be Your Best’ campaign was launched to support students and
graduates. We have taken the advice provided by employers and recruiters, and
have passed this on through a comprehensive online and offline marketing
programme. And, we firmly believe it will help candidates towards securing
jobs in IT.”
IT Jobs for Graduates also provides a free ‘Jobs by Email’ service that
sends relevant IT jobs on a daily basis.
IT JOBS FOR GRADUATES
UNIVERSITY TOUR (JUNE 2009):
University: Royal Holloway
Date: Thursday 4th June 2009
Location: Royal Holloway Windsor Building
Time: 2:00 -4:00pm
University: Durham University
Date: Monday 8th June 2009
Location: Room E240 of the Engineering department
Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
University: Sussex University
Date: Thursday 11th June
Location: CDEC Seminar Room 2, 2nd Floor, Falmer House, University of
Sussex
Time: 1:15 - 2:15pm
Notes to editors
About http://www.itjobsforgraduates.com/www.itjobboard.co.uk:
IT Jobs for Graduates (http://www.itjobsforgraduates.com) is part of The
IT Job Board group of companies (which includes
http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk).
The IT Job Board group of companies was set up in
recognition that recruitment in the IT sector was increasingly dominated by
the internet.
Online technology enables sophisticated targeting – for example by skill,
region or experience – of http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk‘s database of
800,000 IT professionals. The IT Job Board always tries to get closer to
candidates either via planned content campaigns, or through the use of social
networks.
The site also offers employers services such as branded job postings, a
featured employer zone, targeted email campaigns and guidance on advertising
copy. The managed campaign service filters responses to provide companies
with a shortlist of applicants most suitable for the advertised position.
http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk‘s clients include Bloomberg, TDG, Conoco
Phillips, CSC, Standard Bank and BG Group.
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