GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.13

Hello and welcome to this weeks happenings at GRB,

Despite the miserable weather affecting the UK we have a had few rays of sunshine to lift the nations graduate job seekers! I can report extremely positive news of many recruiters talking to us at the moment who are planning to recruit graduates next Summer. A high street bank, a City based IT firm, investment bank and several leading retailers plus an engineering firm - so stick with us and give yourself a fighting chance in the jobs market.

Carl Gilleard, Chief Exec of the Association of Graduate Recruiters, this week recorded an exclusive video for our website packed full of useful advice from our man-in-the-know. Plus, watch advice from three GRB experts about a suggested action plan of what you need to do in year one, year two and year three of your time at Uni to give yourself a head and shoulders advantage over other job seeking students.

Finally, for any budding Marketers amongst you, The Chartered Institute of Marketing Sussex division is hosting a seminar entitled "Back to the Future" about what successful companies are planning for their marketing in 2010.

Speak next week. Have a great weekend.

Best regards

Dan Hawes

GRB Weekly Highlights | No.12

Hi


We spoke to thousands of graduates in the last few weeks keen to register their CV with our consultants to start applying for jobs for them. This has created a huge backlog so please bear with us if your CV is waiting to go onto our database. In the meantime if you see any jobs you like the look of then you can visit the site www.grb.uk.com, call in and discuss the next steps with a consultant. We are still busy with recruiters looking for graduates, not necessarily on graduate schemes which have been affected by the recession, but many, many direct-entry roles.


GRB have had some excellent press coverage of late. I was interviewed for the BBC World Service, FT and recently Brookson where I commented on the Government's latest initiative to get more young people getting qualifications and apprenticeships.



Finally one of my recruitment buddies, Tanya, has passed on some really useful advice so take a moment to check it out (and her book if you are interested!)

I am off to see some friends and visit Cheddar Gorge and see why they put the super in Weston Super Mare! Please let there be sunshine...

Best regards

Dan Hawes

GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.11

Hello

GRB were out and about this week at various careers fairs across the UK. The Yorkshire Graduate Fair at Sheffield Uni; Sussex Uni GradFair and then Brighton Uni Career Fair to mention a few. Loads of students came up to our stand and signed up and were really pleased to discover we existed! Judging from the number of other recruiters at these fairs I would say the recession is definitely not stopping them seek top graduates to join their firms. The only noticeable abscence of course are investment banks but even these are starting to make enquiries at GRB about their 2010 programmes so I think we have turned a corner.

We have been reinforcing the value of hiring graduates with news like this Recruitment At Firms Gathers Pace and surveys like this It pays to recruit graduates on our website newsfeed. I also got the chance to advise two graduates on air for the BBC World Service yesterday. It was broadcast from the lawns of SOAS in London and can be listened to here > http://www.grb.uk.com/grb_in_the_press.0.html

We have a new recruitment consultant starting on Monday who will be specialising in helping language graduates find work so today we have been making room for her in the office and getting her induction ready. Watch this space for a lots of new opportunities for language graduates!

All the best and enjoy any firework displays. Yesterdays Lewes Bonfire was well attended by GRB staff so have fun.

Best regards

Dan Hawes

GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.10

Good morning and welcome to the latest news from GRB HQ

Being the last week of the month our team have been busy meeting their targets of placing graduates and I am pleased to say we have a had a good month. We are finding employers may have made too many redundancies and are now finding they need graduates so we have been searching our candidate database speaking to the very best graduates who will fit into their organisation. We always call graduates before we put them forward unlike some other agencies who fire off CVs willy nilly so if you get a call from 01273-325775 it's good news!

Our candidate numbers have been increasing too with many sign ups from last weeks London Careers Fair and yesterdays Nottingham Fair. A lot of graduates read about us in the press and we had several enquiries following an article in yesterday's Executive Appointment section of the FT.

As ever the team are available until 8pm Mon-Thurs and until 5pm on Fridays to answer your emails and phone calls or you might want to chat online anytime. Have a great weekend and speak soon.

Best regards

Dan Hawes

GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.9

Welcome to this weeks report from GRB

It's funny how students are surprised when I tell them our service is free and we actually apply for jobs on their behalf. I guess they have a perception of recruitment agencies as taking a sneaky cut from their wages or not returning their calls but GRB do things differently.

We have been promoting GRB at the recent London Graduate Fair and we advertise with all Uni Careers Services so we are easy to find. You may even bump into one of our Student Brand Managers who represent GRB on campus. In fact, we currently have vacancies at Brighton, Royal Holloway, UEA, Surrey and Essex Unis so if you are interested in doing a part-time Marketing job drop me a line today dan@grb.uk.com.

GRB staff are off to a consultants 30th Birthday tonight in Worthing so that'll be a late one. Have a great weekend!

Dan Hawes

GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.8

Happy Friday and welcome to this weeks goings-on at GRB,

Lots of activity on our website with students visiting our very popular student jobs listing which currently has 264 part-time jobs. We also have Carl Gilleard, the chief exec of the Association of Graduate Recruiters giving us his exclusive monthly look at what's going on in the graduate jobs market. If anyone knows what's going on he's your man so have a read. Plus, read this week's Tip Of The Week to give you that all-important edge when applying for graduate jobs.

Our quarterly newsletter also went out to our members but you have to register with us to see that one! The marketing team have been getting ready for the Guardian London Graduate Fair next Tuesday so please do come along and pay a visit to our stand and grab yourself a freebie.

Finally, I have been getting calls from journalists this week running various graduate recruitment articles so keep an eye out for a GRB mention in Thursdays FT and the National Student very soon.

All the best.

Dan Hawes

GRBs Weekly Highlights | No.7

Hello

Had a great week at GRB! Now students are back, GRB are on the road meeting thousands of you at various freshers fairs and events. On Tuesday we were at Cambridge Uni and were overwhelmed with sign ups to our service. Plus they loved our freebies!

We are going to help these guys find part-time work and internships and then guide them as they progress to graduation and represent them when they start applying for graduate jobs. There is a big grad fair in Earls Court, London this weekend which I am going to pop into as I am visiting the Bike Show next door in Olympia! Don't worry I won't be in lycra if you spot me.

I was in London yesterday to help AGR with their membership strategy and a very productive meeting it was too. The more recruiters are aware of AGR then the more companies can achieve higher standards and better recruitment campaigns. If I get any useful info that will help you find work, I'll pass it on.

Finally, if there are any Sussex based students or graduates interested in keeping up to date on current marketing topics then an event on October 29th is a must. More info here>
ttp://www.cim.co.uk/Events/EventDetail.aspx?ObjectID=29093

Have a great weekend.

Dan