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Top 10 Skills Employers are Looking For in 2015 Graduates
Posted: 31st Jan 2015Category: Latest News
What skills are hiring managers prioritizing when looking for graduates in 2015? A recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, collected the views of 260 employers including…
Employer in Focus: Bain & Company
Posted: 29th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
Bain & Company are rated number 4 in our top 100 companies to work for; a list based on thousands of reviews submitted straight from employees, updated every September. Bain prides…
Rise In Graduate Positions Expected This Year
Posted: 27th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
The Association of Graduate Recruiters have announced their latest survey results! 21,682 graduate positions were offered in 2013 – 2014 by the 201 companies responding to the survey and an increase…
Writing the Perfect Cover Letter
Posted: 24th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
Getting noticed in a huge pile of job applications can be really difficult! Today we bring you five pieces of excellent advice on how to write the perfect cover letter,…
What’s it like to be… an underwriter?
Posted: 16th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
Today we are looking at what’s it like to be an underwriter, a key role in the insurance and pensions industry. All the following information comes from our reviews, gathered…
Employer in Focus: Mars
Posted: 15th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
Today we are focusing on one of our top smaller intake employers, MARS. A common theme in reviews of Mars is the amount of faith put in their employees. “You get a…
Energy Rated the Number 1 Industry for Compensation and Benefits!
Posted: 11th Jan 2015Category: Latest News
The Job Crowd are excited to announce that Energy and Energy Support Services have been ranked number one for compensation and benefits through our employee reviews. Not only that, but the…
Top Companies For Graduates To Work For Summary
Posted: 1st Jan 2015Category: Latest News
Check out this info-summary of this year’s Top Companies results: …
Best Career For Enjoyment
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
You may not have dreamed of being a logistics manager when you were a kid, but we've been having a look through all of the data collected in our anonymous…
Website of the Year finalists!
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
We're absolutely delighted to have been chosen as a finalist of the Website of the Year Award, run by the GoodWebGuide ("the definitive guide to the best websites on the…
Welcome to the new website!
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
Welcome to our new website! We've spent the last few months taking all of your great feedback and requests on board in order to produce a new version of TheJobCrowd…
Did you see us in The Guardian?
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
The Guardian wrote a great article about us in Saturday's paper. "This year's university leavers can peer beneath the gloss and gain a sense of the day-to-day reality of their…
How to land your perfect job – What To Do Before You Apply
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
Every one of the thousands of reviewers on TheJobCrowd is asked the question 'What advice would you give to someone looking to land this job?' – and remember, these are…
How to land the perfect job – Application Advice.
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
Following on from last weeks very popular 'What to do before you apply' advice article. We've now waded through all of our reviews to seek out the very best advice…
How to use LinkedIn to land a job
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
This is a guest blog post from our friends at Adzuna.co.uk: Finding that perfect job can be a frustrating ordeal. In today’s congested job market it’s essential to draw upon all…
The importance of social media & mobile devices to employees
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
We just came across a really cool and interesting infographic from Cisco, based on a detailed report that they have conducted into what students and graduates expect from an employer…
In Praise of Teach First
Posted: 4th Sep 2014Category: Latest News
Aside from our Top Companies To Work For rankings, we tend not to explicitly draw attention to particular employers, but very few employers are as commendable -both in their purpose…
Top Companies For Graduates 2014/15
Posted: 18th Jun 2014Category: Latest News
Monday night saw over 350 people join us at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, for the announcement of the 2014/15 Top Companies For Graduates To Work For. We had a…
Graduate Salaries
Posted: 5th Jun 2014Category: Latest News
Which is the highest paid graduate career? The answer – Management Consulting, with an average starting salary of £37,111 The graph below shows the average graduate starting salary for each career, based…
Where is the best place to work for Career Progression?
Posted: 24th Oct 2013Category: Latest News
Great Career Progression is a vital part of a great graduate job. But while almost every company might promise you a rapid rise up their ladder, which companies actually offer…
Top Companies Results
Posted: 15th Sep 2013Category: Latest News
At last, the results are out! We’ve gone through the 4,000+ reviews written on TheJobCrowd in 2013 to see which companies have been rated as the best to work for…
Top Companies Results – On Facebook First
Posted: 1st Sep 2013Category: Latest News
The results for The Top Companies For Graduates To Work For in 2013/14 will be released on September 16th to our Facebook followers before anyone else. The results include the Top…
Law Firms – Everything you wanted to know about graduate law companies
Posted: 24th Mar 2013Category: Latest News
If you are interested in a graduate job as a lawyer, this infographic tells you pretty much everything that you might want to know about the top law firms for…
Who are the best employers for Work-Life Balance?
Posted: 3rd Mar 2013Category: Latest News
Yahoo banned working from home last week, apparently because: “to become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That…
Application and Interview Tips
Posted: 28th Jan 2013Category: Latest News
Read application and interview advice, written solely by graduates already working in that sector: We ask every reviewer to provide application and interview advice to future graduates looking to apply to…
The Top Retailers To Work For
Posted: 17th Jan 2013Category: Latest News
The above infographic tells you everything you need to know about a graduate career in retail, on one page! As well as compiling The Top Companies To Work For, we also…
The Graduate Recruiter’s View
Posted: 11th Dec 2012Category: Latest News
If you are looking to land your ideal graduate job, as well as gaining the inside view from graduate employees wouldn’t it be a tremendous help to get the view…
Did you miss us?
Posted: 15th Nov 2012Category: Latest News
What? You mean you weren’t listening to Radio 4 at 12.30pm on Friday?! Fair enough. If you want to hear our 2 founders talking about the site for 5 minutes,…
Graduates After Graduation
Posted: 23rd Oct 2012Category: Latest News
Check out our latest infographic, revealing some of the trends for graduates after they graduates – including which university courses earn the highest (and lowest!) salaries post-graduation. …
Top Companies For Graduates To Work For Announced
Posted: 10th Sep 2012Category: Latest News
You probably expect a ranking of the top companies for graduates to work for to tell you who the top companies for graduates to work for are, right? That’s what…