It is as important for the candidate to find the right employer as it is for an organisation to hire the right staff. Here visitors can ask questions and gain information direct from the company and make an informed decision about their future.With a solid CV, graduates have an overwhelming array of choices. The job for life may no longer be an option for most job seekers, but I am pleased to see that graduate training scheme opportunities are back. But the band exude a buoyancy and languid melodiousness that veer far away from any bygone world of triple albums and narcolepsy-inducing noodling to something much more accessible and fully integrated.”Bring It Back Again” hits the right note as the opener, setting lyrics such as, “Lord, I’m lost in a slow man’s dream,” to a gentle motorik thrum. This area of the show has an abundance of employers interested in seeing graduates as well as non-graduates. British Gas, for example, will showcase its Engineering Academy.

We are even seeing graduates leaving their high-flying city jobs to train in trades such as plumbing and electrics, as the financial gains can be very rewarding.Graduates should not overlook the Careers and Jobs Live part of the show on the ground floor where opportunities such as these can be found. One employer with this mindset exhibiting at the show will be television production and programming company, FremantleMedia, which is recruiting for its graduate training scheme.The media is a popular area for job seeking, but we are also seeing a return to the trades Vocational training post degree is an emerging trend. Employers are once again realising that home grown and trained talent is the way forward with candidates nurtured to the level and quality that an employer demands.A longer-term view is required here with employer and employee making a commitment to a lengthy partnership of training, learning and development so that the end result is a rewarding job and a skilled employee. Most graduates are armed with a good qualification, but a poor or sketchy CV lets them down. With this in mind, at the forthcoming show, theGRADfair, being held at Olympia on 31 October and 1 November, there will be a clinic where CV experts will be able to sit down with graduates and give them a helping hand to get on the right track.But why attend a careers fair? This is a question some graduates may ask when job seeking for the first time.

It’s the good old back-to-basics tools of the job-searching trade that are required to make a good impression and land that dream job.We are finding that graduates need a helping hand to get the first foot on the ladder and launch their career in the right direction. Indeed, the job market has been challenging for a number of years but, according to the employers we are working with, the outlook seems positive for graduates in the current climate.
The job market is still competitive however, and graduates need to be armed with a strong CV and a determined attitude in order to succeed. For some it feels like a daunting task and an uphill struggle ahead. On completion of the programme, engineering graduates can expect to take a first appointment as a technical engineer or team technician to gain the appropriate production and procedural knowledge and experience in-line management, project management and technical support in a variety of engineering fields.While there isn’t a formal graduate programme for non-engineering specialists, there are ample opportunities for well-qualified graduates across a wide range of disciplines, such as sales and marketing, corporate communications, finance, procurement, human resources and law. About this time of the year organised graduates will be taking a deep breath and thinking that the time has come to launch themselves into the world of work.

To find out more about working for Eurostar, visit .. By the company’s birthday on 14 November, Eurostar will have carried around 59 million people – nearly the entire population of the United Kingdom. The company employs around 1,300 people and retention rates are high. Graduates with degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering can join the Monitored Professional Development Scheme, a two- year programme that offers various placements to help them meet the competency requirements of the professional institutions they are aligned to.There are also opportunities to travel, as Luis Garcia Araguas, who has recently completed the programme, found out. “While taking part in the Graduate Programme, you get the chance to work in different engineering disciplines within diverse departments and teams, but doing it in an international company such as Eurostar means it takes on another dimension.”Engineering trainees can expect to earn around £20,000, rising to upwards of £23,000 on graduation. Graduates from all disciplines can apply for the group’s 18-month training programme that covers all aspects of operations management. Trainees spend six months in each of the three divisions: bus, rail and aviation support services management.