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CVs and covering letters: convince engineering recruiters you're perfect for their graduate job
Use our engineering CV and covering letter examples and our advice to help you fine tune your own CVs and covering letters.

Key skills for sales jobs
Find out five skills that could improve your sales CV, along with exactly what each entails, so you can talk confidently about them at interview.

Mobile developer: job description
Mobile developers specialise in developing software for Android and iOS mobile devices.

Property internships: when and how to apply
Property work experience can include placement years, insight days and informal opportunities.

Ten ways to get your legal CV noticed by top law recruiters
Whether you are interested in applying for vacation schemes, training contracts, insight days or open days, it’s likely you’ll need a law CV – even if you're just uploading it to your online application form. Use these top ten CV tips from graduate recruiters in law to help you.

What can I do with a modern languages degree?
Find out about skills you will have gained from studying modern languages, get ideas for jobs you could do and find out about employment rates and popular areas of work for modern languages graduates.

Fun, prospects or money: what are you looking for?
What motivates you? Here are some ideas for careers that might satisfy your aspirations, whether you want to help people, travel, earn a big salary right from the start or create a lasting legacy.

Teaching job jargon buster
The education sector makes plentiful use of acronyms, so we've put together a handy guide to commonly used teaching jargon to help you plan for career success.

Starting a technology career with any degree
All degrees are welcome for graduate IT and technology jobs. Here's how non-technology and non-STEM graduates can make their degrees compatible with IT careers.

'Why do you want to work for us?' Application and interview answers IT companies want
‘Why do you want to work here?’ is an almost-guaranteed question for any graduate IT job. It's actually several questions rolled into one so here are the good (and bad) approaches to answering this common IT graduate application and interview question.

What can I do with an IT degree?
IT and computer science graduates are in demand both for their technical skills and for their willingness to respond to developments and try new things, an attitude which is welcomed by employers.

Why sales could be your ideal graduate job
With competitive salaries and perks, along with the chance to work in industries that interest you, a sales career could offer just what you want from a graduate job.