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Explore all graduate advice and guidance on targetjobs

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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Television production assistant: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Production assistants support more senior creative staff on TV and film sets.

Media, journalism & publishing+3
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Ten skills you'll gain from part-time delivery jobs

Part-time work

The skills you develop when working as a courier – for example, as a food delivery driver – are an asset in any graduate job. They enhance CV and interview answers.

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TEFL/TESL teacher: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Discover what a TEFL teacher actually does day to day, what TEFL stands for and how to become qualified.

Teaching & education+3
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Technical interviews for graduate engineering jobs

Interviews and assessment centres

Use our example technical interview questions and our top tips to help you prepare for this stage of the recruitment process and secure an engineering internship or graduate job with confidence.

Engineering
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Teaching/classroom assistant: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Teaching (or classroom) assistants support qualified teachers in the classroom.

Teaching & education+5
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Teacher (secondary): job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Secondary school teachers educate young people between the ages of 11 and 18.

Teaching & education+4
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Teacher (primary): job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Primary school teachers provide education for children up to the age of 11, typically teaching a broad range of subjects.

Teaching & education+2
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Teacher (nursery/early years): job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Nursery(or early years) teachers help to nurture and develop the knowledge abilities, and social skills of children from birth to five years old.

Teaching & education+4
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Systems developer: job description

Job descriptions and industry overviews

Systems developers build the behind-the-scenes software for a wide range of business and organisational functions.

Technology+10
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Successful CVs and covering letters for pupillage applications

Applications

Some chambers ask job-hunters seeking graduate careers as barristers to submit applications for pupillage in the form of a CV and covering letter.

Law barristers+1
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Succeed at civil and structural engineering assessment centres

Interviews and assessment centres

Apply for a graduate job with a large engineering employer and you'll probably attend an assessment centre during the interview process. What to expect and how to prepare: we explain all.

Civil & structural+2
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Strength-based interviews for jobs and grad schemes

Interviews and assessment centres

Find out what to expect from strength-based graduate job interviews, which focus on what you enjoy doing as a way of assessing your personal attributes and innate aptitudes.

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