It’s a cliché to say that the internet has changed the whole of our lives but when it comes to tracking downyour dream job as a graduate, it certainlyholds true. Whereas the end of University days used to mean scouring dusty folders at the Careers Centre for information on graduate scheme and internship jobs, all that has changed. Not only do companies have their own web-sites, making it easier to get information on graduate jobs but much of the business of the careers service is also now done on-line. Whether it’s sending out weekly job listings or making most of their services available from the comfort of a student laptop, universities know that getting their graduates into great jobs involves less paper and more PCs.

However, one thing has not changed in this cyber-dominated world. Landing yourself the right job – and that’s one that you find satisfying and interesting as well as one that pays of that mountain of student debt at a pleasing rate – still involves insider knowledge not usually available on company web-sites.  It also takes the honing of specific people skills such as negotiation. This is where a whole new breed of independent careers sites comes in, maximising everything the internet can offer to help students land the graduate jobs or the places on graduate scheme which they so want.

Take CareerPlayer.com, for instance. Some of what they do mimics a good student careers office – they link up job seekers with information about internship jobs or provide information on the big milk round employers, for instance. However, they can also offer things that until now were only available to the very well connected, proving that the web is indeed a socially equalising medium. Interested in a career in journalism? There’s a video interview with a key player in the business. Fancy yourself as a civil servant? The video clips from people who have trodden that path before you may inspire or put you off. There is an enormous library of these clips, all available at the click of a mouse, covering every big industry.

Better still, there are clips on every aspect of the application process, from how to cope with assessment centres or psychometric testing to clinching the deal at the last interview. Each stage of the process is covered with written information available where it’s more appropriate.

With the current market for graduate jobs a tough one, (although, according to the latest figures, not as gloomy as some had predicted), one can only expect that those determined to land the coveted places on graduate scheme or those precious first-step-on-the-ladder internship jobs will increasingly be turning to these alternative providers of careers advice. Frankly, they’d be foolish not to.

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How do you decide which career path to take? Some people follow in the footsteps of their relatives simply because it’s expected of them. Others pick a career centred on their pet subject at school or a recreational pastime.

Selecting the right career is a quandary that we all face and it’s important to get it right. Remember you may be working in this job for between 40 and 45 years, so your decision should not be taken lightly.

Boys may dream about a career as a pilot whilst girls envisage themselves becoming a nurse. For most university students these dreams are long gone by the time they start looking for graduate jobs.

Now that we live in a world ruled by the Internet it’s not surprising that numerous job boards have sprung up, all displaying loads of graduate jobs and internships. But there are very few that give information about specific career paths. And yet that’s exactly the information that graduates need to know.

Some large companies will be looking for applicants to join their annual graduate scheme. Getting a place on a graduate scheme is tough. There are many candidates and the selection process is rigorous. But is that going to be the right choice for you?
That’s where CareerPlayer.com comes in. The staff at CareerPlayer have been extremely busy filming inside offices and getting the inside scoop on graduate jobs and how to get into them. The result is a website full of videos that give a wonderful insight into a wide range of graduate roles.
The videos are interviews of real people working in real jobs. They might have begun their career on a graduate scheme, proved their value through a summer internship or been offered a job during the university milk rounds. But all the employees have one thing in common. They explain the job exactly as it is; including the good parts, and the bad.
You owe it to yourself to read the wide  range of information available on selectingobtaining an internship, finding graduate jobs or applying for a graduate scheme.

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