What young graduates want in a manager
Why do some young graduates thrive from day one at work while others struggle to settle in? The answer often comes down to one key figure in the office: their manager.
Graduate jobs market worst for a decade
Final year students and graduates should enjoy their last few weeks of college life while they can. Because finding a job this summer is going to be very, very hard.
Surviving the graduate jobs drought
For final-year college students on both sides of the Atlantic it's little more than four to five months until final exams. But with jobs becoming increasingly scarce, what are they going to do next?
Why it's good graduates muck about on mobiles
Graduates in Western economies may seem umbilically attached to their mobiles and social networks, but they risk being overtaken by even more technologically savvy students from emerging economies.
Gen Y gets a recession reality check
Work-life balance is another casualty of the downturn, with college graduates reporting being pushed to work harder, come in earlier and stay later.
Tough times ahead for US graduates
After years of expecting to waltz into their ideal career, nearly three quarters of American graduates are now seriously worried about their chances of landing a job at all when they leave college.
Your degree may be the last thing that gets you a job
Employers are less concerned about how well graduates performed academically than how they get on with colleagues and how well they communicate.
American graduates facing jobs scramble
With the employment market looking tougher by the day, nearly half of American students graduating from college this summer expect to have to fight tooth and nail to land a job.
How to make a success of post-college job hunting
In the latest podcast for graduate job-seekers from workplace engagement specialists, Best Companies, Wayne Turmel talks to Paul Farrer, Chairman of the Graduate Recruitment Company, about the possibilities and pitfalls around applying for that all-important first post-university job.
Surviving your first graduate job
But finding that first graduate job is only the beginning. The next challenge is to make that job a success – those vital first 100 days. So what are the things new employees can do to help - or hinder - their careers just as they are getting started? Listen to this podcast to find out.
Vital advice for graduates
Nothing is more important to the new graduate than finding that first position and using it as a launching pad for a fulfilling professional life. With all the changes taking place in business, finding a company that offers opportunities for ongoing development is crucial.
How to land that graduate job
Fewer than half of all new Graduates last two years at their first job out of college. So how can you ensure you find an employer that is a good fit with your personal and professional objectives?
Generation Y still wants it all
More than two-thirds of college graduates are worried about how the state of the economy will affect their chances of landing a job. Not that that's going to stop them demanding the earth from employers.
The kids are all right
The Generation Y of up-and-coming workers are all too readily dismissed as spoilt, demanding slackers. But, as a survey suggests they are in fact just as hard working and hungry to succeed as their parents, is it just generational sour grapes?
Generation Y are unmotivated slackers
They're ambitious, green, technologically savvy and flexible. But the Generation Y workforce is also over-confident, unrealistic, self-centred and demanding.
Latest book podcasts
Steve Cockram: the Voice-Driven Leader
Steve Cockram, co-founder of Giant Worldwide, talks about his latest book, 'The Voice-Driven Leader' and explains how to create environments where every voice gets heard.
What is Relationship Currency?
Keynote speaker and transformational coach, Ravi Rajani, talks about his new book, "Relationship currency: five communication habits for limitless influence and business success".
Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift
We dive into the new book from Deloitte's Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach, 'Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift'.
Lesley Cooper on stress and pressure at work
In this episode we discuss wellbeing at work with Lesley Cooper, including the issues of fear-based cultures and psychological safety.
