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On targetjobs you'll find graduate careers advice on a huge range of topics – and we're adding more all the time. Compare career options with information on what to expect from working life in different sectors, then learn how you can develop your skills, gain work experience and succeed in applications and interviews. If you're not sure what you'd like to do, don't panic: we're here to help you take those first steps into making career decisions. We also have articles on how to make the most of uni life, organise your job hunt, juggle job offers and more. Whether you're in your first year of university or have already graduated, our career advice for students and graduates will set you on the right path.
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How to answer common internship interview questions

Internships and placements

Practising these common internship interview questions will prepare you to express why you want the placement and how you’re a good fit for the team and organisation.

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Working in Canada

Working abroad

The Canadian shortage occupations list could be your key to finding jobs in Canada for UK citizens, but you’ll need skills and experience to qualify.

Accounting & finance
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Graduate assessment centre and interview advice for quantity surveyors

Interviews and assessment centres

At an assessment centre for a job as a graduate quantity surveyor, cost consultant or commercial manager, recruiters want to find out whether you have the skills and motivations to succeed at their company.

Property, construction & QS
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Why working in audit outside of London is a great career choice

Working life

Milly and Bex, audit graduate trainees at KPMG, share how you can have a successful career living and working outside of the UK capital, when you join one of KPMG’s regional offices.

Accounting & finance+2
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Fashion designer: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Fashion designers create the concepts for and design original clothing, accessories and footwear.

Retail, business & commercial services
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A world of cloud computing and collaboration: what graduate life as a DevOps Engineer is really like

Areas of work, specialisms and alternatives

For Mohamed Mukhtar, working in DevOps at Sky has enabled him to find his perfect tech role building meaningful applications in a supportive and inclusive environment. He explains what a career in DevOps involves.

Technology
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What is life really like as an accountant at Azets?

Choosing an employer

Get to know accounting careers without the myths and stereotypes, with a little help from three trainee accountants at Azets.

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Machine learning engineer: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

A machine learning engineer researches, designs and builds self-running artificial intelligence systems to automate predictive models.

Technology+3
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A week in the life of a Bloomberg data intern

Choosing an employer

Oscar Perez – now a graduate data specialist in Bloomberg’s fixed income team – gives you the insider’s view of what a week in the life of a data intern at Bloomberg is all about.

Technology+3
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A week in the life of a Bloomberg analytics and sales intern

Choosing an employer

Bloomberg graduate Lisa Hammer reflects on her beginnings at the company by sharing her experiences from one of the weeks of her exciting analytics and sales summer internship in 2022.

Technical sales+3
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Fact vs fiction: the Ocado Group edition

Choosing an employer

Think you know Ocado Group? If you’re picturing a grocery website and delivery vans right now, think again. Instead, picture the biggest technology disruptor in the retail industry.

Technology+1
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Secure a training contract in your first year with SPARK

Webinars

Find out more about Clifford Chance’s award-winning SPARK work experience programme, which you can apply to as a first-year student.

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