E-Newsletter EXTRA OCTOBER 2009
MAIN CONTENTS
CONTENTS: Part One...
Corporate News
- RateMyPlacement
- Reckitt Benckiser
- ACCA
- Accenture
- Barclays
- Standard Life
- KPMG
- KTP
- Nestle
- CIMA
- Deloitte
- Analysys Mason
- ICAEW
- Unilever
- The College of Law
- Npower
- UBS
CONTENTS: Part Two...
National Team News
Society News
- New Societies
- Birmingham Bright Futures News
- Aston Bright Futures News
- Swansea Bright Futures News
- Brunel Bright Futures News
- Leeds Bright Futures News
A Bit of Fun... 
CONTENTS: Lastest Advice
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Never has a new Bright Futures Corporate Investor been so quick to embrace the values of our society and get stuck-in. Within a week of signing up to work with us Kathryn had already (perhaps foolishly) agreed to run not one but two of our Committee Training workshops, one in Manchester and one in London.
The feedback I received from both the students and other Investors’ that were involved in these workshops was fantastic, with more than one stating that they were the best of the day. I didn’t see any money changing hands so can only assume they were telling the truth. She was later responsible for inventing Chunky KitKat Jenga, but that’s another story…
Standard Life is a major asset managing company with its headquarters in Edinburgh. They provide life assurance and pensions, investment management, banking and healthcare insurance products to millions of customers around the world and offer a wide range of graduate programmes and summer internships.
For more info take a look at http://www.standardlife.com/careers/graduates/index.html
(Kathryn and the Graduate Recruitment team worked very hard on this website, so make sure you all go and take a look!).
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Corporate News
RateMyPlacement.co.uk - coming to a campus near you...?
Not contented with living the reality of full time employment, we love to get back on campus whenever we can. These last few months have been no exception to the rule and the team has been travelling the length of the country for University Fresher’s Fairs, Careers Fairs and Presentations spreading the RateMyPlacement word on our Campus Tour 09/10!
Whilst were on campus it’s a great opportunity for us to chat to your society and members. We have already booked a few presentations and skill sessions with Bright Futures Societies, so take a look at our events calendar to see when we are visiting your university and get us involved! Also, we are always looking for help at fairs and testing out local coffee shops and pubs so call us or email Cara now (07813 020799 / Cara@ratemyplacement.co.uk) if you want to organise a presentation, skill session or fancy helping us out.
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Award winning team goes on the road...
This October our teams went out on the road to come and talk to YOU. We toured/ are touring the UK visiting various universities and careers fairs to talk to you about what we do.
You don’t win awards like this without employing the best. If you already know you are head and shoulders above the rest, come and talk to our people, guess what, they’re just like you!
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Winner - Adult Health |
Nurofen Express |
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Winner - Air Freshener |
AirWick Aqua Essences |
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Winner - Body Care |
E45 Endless Moisture Body Range |
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Winner - Stain Removal |
Vanish Oxi Action Magnets |
There will be current graduates who are on the scheme and senior managers from relevant departments on the stands. We will be able to talk to you about what life is really like in the business and answer any of your questions. They will also be able to give you hints and tips to guarantee that you can submit an outstanding application for our programmes!
You will be able to see us at:
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Durham |
Generalist |
Wednesday |
21st |
Oct |
11:00-15:30 |
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LSE |
Advertising Marketing and PR Fair |
Wednesday |
21st |
Oct |
18:30-20:30 |
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Bath |
Generalist |
Thursday |
22nd |
Oct |
11:00-16:00 |
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Nottingham |
AISEC |
Thursday |
29th |
Oct |
10:30-16:00 |
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NEC |
National Graduate Recruitment Exhibition |
Friday |
30th |
Oct |
11:00-17:00 |
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NEC |
National Graduate Recruitment Exhibition |
Saturday |
31st |
Oct |
11:00-16:00 |
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LSE |
Business & Management Fair |
Tuesday |
3rd |
Nov |
18:30-21:00 |
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Oxford |
Michaelmas Careers Fair |
Saturday |
7th |
Nov |
11:00-15:00 |
Which one will we see you at?
http://www.reckittbenckiser.jobs/
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We know that time is precious for final year students. They have application deadlines and assignment deadlines as well as trying to fit in time to attend employer presentations and skills workshops. This is why ACCA have produced a video of our graduate presentation.
Students are able to watch our presentation at a time and place that suits them, ensuring that they have all the information they need about careers in accountancy.
Commercial Awareness Podcasts
I'd like to remind you about the resources that ACCA have developed around commercial awareness. As well as producing 5 podcasts that look at commercial awareness in the different sectors (financial, practice, public and corporate), we've also produced a range of support materials including the impact of interest rates on the economy, risk management and important terminology.
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Our creativity is behind some of the most challenging projects for some of the world’s best know companies, and that creative came from people like you…. Be apart of something great.
Graduate Careers in Consulting – Accenture Presentations Location: various universities up and down the UK. Please visit
www.accenture.com/ukgraduates/events for more information and to sign up.Ideas, like you, we love them. After all, as one of the world’s leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing companies, our creativity is behind some of the most challenging projects for some of the world’s best known companies. Right now, our colourful thinking is also helping to turn Amsterdam into the EU’s first intelligent city – we’re turning it green.
The Intelligent City project is designed to better manage the flow of energy and reduce carbon emissions. And it’s just one of the many projects you could find yourself working on at Accenture.
To discover more about our high-performance careers, register for our autumn presentation that we’ll be hosting near you. If you attend, you could be the lucky winner chosen to experience our consulting project in Amsterdam, where you and a friend will get to see firsthand the difference our Intelligent City project is making.
Find out more about our graduate careers. Visit: www.accenture.com/ukgraduates
Register now at www.accenture.com/ukgraduates/events]
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We’re one of the UK's best known high street banks.
But we're also much more than that; we are a hugely diverse financial services company with around 150,000 employees in more than 50 countries across Europe, USA, Africa and Asia. This has already helped to make us one of the ten largest banks in the world. Now, we are focused on breaking into the top five.
If there's one quality that’s fuelled Barclays’ success it’s our innovation. Our people inspire groundbreaking ideas that move the entire industry forward. Whether it’s reaching untapped markets, capitalising on the latest technology, launching futuristic new retail bank branches or introducing imaginative products like the carbon-neutral debit card, we always seem to get there first. Not surprisingly our fresh-thinking approach also makes us an inspirational place to develop a graduate career.
In 2010 we're looking to recruit around 150 graduates across our business areas of Commercial Bank, Retail Bank, Barclaycard, Marketing and Products, Technology, HR, Tax, Treasury and Finance. Each business runs its own structured training programme lasting between 1-3 years. Wherever you join us we’ll push you to push us, for more details please visit our website at: www.inspiredbybarclays.com
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On the road with Standard Life...
With more dates than a Madonna tour, we are all geared up for the autumn term of events. An HR consultant mans our stands as well as a team of graduate reps. It's a different mix of people at each fair. It's essential that they all know about our 10 graduate programmes and our 5 summer internships. We also think there is nothing worse than people representing companies at careers fairs who are a bit "flat" when you talk to them.
So, we kicked things off with a fun training session including a stand-up comedian and a hot-seat exercise to help learn about what the other graduates do. We have crammed their brains full and they are all looking forward to it! If you come to us, we might not be able to make you laugh but we are all approachable and should be able to answer any questions you might have.
Freebies!!
We don't want to just give you "stuff" for the sake of it, it's wasteful and that's just not how we roll at Standard Life (check our corporate responsibility pages if you don't believe me). So we are going for something useful, namely pens. Not just any pens though. We have normal Standard Life biros and we also have our much coveted "Standard Life Star Highlighters" a.k.a. the only highlighter you need this season. It works for us as it's useful and is 1 bit of plastic instead of 5. It works for you as its 5 different colours of highlighter in a star-shape. Think of how much this will cheer you up as you slave into the wee hours in the library!
Skills Sessions
We also have a number of presentations booked in for this term. Last year, we did the usual thing. In with the suits, the official-looking PowerPoint, loads of company information and scare the bejeezus out of the students. Then we realised... if we were bored giving this type of presentation by the time we had done 20 of them, what must it be like to suffer in the audience?
This year, it's all about "Skills Sessions". Informal, insider, tricks-of-the-trade, hint and tips on the whole graduate recruitment process. It's way more fun for us, interactive for you and the stuff we talk about is helpful and relevant whether you are applying for one of our jobs or not.
Obviously we hope that you will though! We are really hoping to make them a big success story and we welcome contact from Bright Futures societies on how we both can work together on publicising them. Or you can book in new ones through your society if we are not coming there already. Feel free to get in touch with us. www.standardlife.com/careers/graduates
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KPMG now recruiting for 2010 entry for graduate scheme and vacation scheme! If you’d like to learn more about KPMG, why not come along to one of our on campus events? During October and November we will be visiting campuses across the UK, to find an event near you please click here.
See our new campaign website Straight Talking to find out what its like to work at KPMG or why not try one of our new online skill sessions click here
To find out where vacancies are available, please click here.
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KTP provides employment and personal development opportunities for talented graduates. With a KTP you take ownership of a project that is core to the development of the organisation strategy; you can apply your degree as well as develop your own skill base.
- Visit the Grad Bus and you can:
- Find out how KTP can fast track your career
- Speak to graduates with first hand experience of KTP
- Receive CV writing and interview technique tips
- Win a MacBook Air!
The Grad Bus will be visiting the following locations:
- London South Bank University
- University of East Anglia
- University of St Andrew
- Walkers Stadium, Leicester
Click Here to L£ARN more about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
For more information, visit the KTP Grad Bus website
Check out our current vacancies!
Register your interest
www.ktponline.org.uk/graduates
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Firstly, it was great to meet a number of you at the London event in September. We hope that you enjoyed our session and took something away from it (apart from a few KitKats!)
Nestlé have been involved in a number of initiatives this month including a skills session which we ran for Edinburgh Bright Futures members. The group exercise saw teams of students develop their commercial awareness and unleash their creative side. The task set was to develop a new product idea and also gave them a few handy hints on how to survive group exercises at assessment centres. Further events are scheduled throughout the next few months, including one with Strathclyde Bright Futures.
Finally we would like to extend our congratulations to the following Bright Futures societies, who following the submission of their initial proposals have been short listed as finalists for this year’s Nestlé Partnership Fund;
- Aston
- Edinburgh
- Birmingham
- Leicester
- Strathclyde
Good luck with your pitches......
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The CIMA Global Business Challenge is back for another year.
So if you think you are a future business leader, get involved and register your interest to participate now! With 12 countries from around the world participating, you will have the chance to compete against the best, at the global final to be held in Kuala Lumpur in 2010. Click here to find out what the participants of the 2009 competition thought.
To find out more about the CIMA professional qualification, please visit our website.Become a fan!
Join us on Facebook and become part of the CIMA family. Here you will have access to the latest updates from CIMA along with the opportunity to link up with other CIMA students.
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Deloitte relies on the highest quality of fresh talent to provide innovative thinking, diverse insight and to help realise our one straightforward goal to be recognised as the most trusted professional services firm.
Given our breadth and depth in providing Audit, Tax, Consulting and Corporate Finance services across all major industries, we can offer the kind of clients, complexity and challenges you need to continue your personal growth.
Tune into our Deloitte webinar (19th November, at 6pm) in association with Bright Futures, where you can find out more about the opportunities available in our Consulting Graduate scheme 2010 and hear from one of our Consulting experts on their life as an Analyst. We will take you through the recruitment process and provide a case study to bring the elements and opportunities in Consulting to life.
If you're keen to tune into Deloitte's webinar, please contact Simon at: simon@brightfuturesresourcing.com with your name, email address and moblie number.
Our live Q&A session will also allow you to ask those burning questions you have for our Consulting and Graduate Recruitment members.
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Analysys Mason is a leading strategy consultancy proud to be an active Investor of the Bright Futures society. For over 25 years our consultants have operated at the forefront of the telecoms, media and IT markets, helping to shape these industries by delivering cutting-edge strategic and operational advice.
The Analysys Mason brand is recognised globally. We have led and implemented projects in over 100 countries and our experts tackle a diverse and exciting portfolio of issues ranging from launching new mobile brands, market entry strategies and devising new business models, to offering regulatory advice, and the deployment of public and private network infrastructure.
We currently are hiring for our 2010 graduate intake. We offer a first-class development programme with the emphasis on involvement in international projects from the beginning that will see you develop a wide range of skills, experiences and help build your knowledge.
More information can be found on our website at:
http://www.analysysmason.com/Join-us/Graduate-recruitment
...or by emailing James Weller, Talent Manager at graduate.recruitment@analysysmason.com
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Female undergraduates! Don't miss this chance to accelerate your career in business and finance.
Women in Accountancy is a free, one-day event offering an insight into the diverse and rewarding careers available to you as an ACA qualified chartered accountant. The event is hosted by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
Guest speakers include international conference speaker, author and columnist Lesley Everett, recently featured in Cosmopolitan magazine and representatives from leading employers. You’ll also have the chance to win a suit, from T.M.Lewin, getting you kitted out for your future career.
You’ll get the chance to network with some of our leading authorised training employers throughout the day; Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, BDO Stoy Hayward, Reeves and Neylan, Moore Stephens, Grant Thornton, HAT Group, and the National Audit Office.
Women in Accountancy: Monday 16 November 2009, 09:30 – 17:00
(Chartered Accountants’ Hall, Moorgate, London)
To register complete the delegate form online and email it to women@icaew.com
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DO YOU WANT MORE?
At Unilever, you can get more! To see what Unilever has to offer, visit our website where our applications are now open for our Unilever Future Leaders Programme.
We recruit for Supply Chain, Finance, Business & Technology Management, R&D, Customer Development, HR and Marketing, where you’ll go from graduate to manager in just two years. We're looking forward to meeting you at the careers fairs where unilever graduates can give you more information and an insight into working at Unilever. To find out where we’ll be, to get more information and to apply, please visit www.unilever.co.uk/careers.
This year we have an amazing competition where we will bring a group of students to the Unilever head office to take part in a 48 hour business challenge. One of those lucky students will win a trip abroad to see Unilever’s world changing work in action. So check out our website today to find out how to apply www.unilever.co.uk/wantmore
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If you have an enquiring mind, like challenges on a daily basis and are seeking long term job satisfaction and security; then a career in law is for you.
The College of Law is the UK’s No1 law school and we have courses to suit both law and non-law graduates.Join our Future Lawyers Association and receive:
- A guaranteed place on our GDL or LPC ( (see eligibility requirements)
- An E-newsletter that’s produced every term.
- Legal training information, including careers advice
- Profiles of practising and trainee lawyers
Come and meet us
Register for an open day, centre visit or come and see us at your university and find out more about the College and the courses available to you.Find out more
Call 0800 328 0153
E-mail admissions@lawcol.co.uk
Visit www.college-of-law.co.uk
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Npower are pleased to unveil their brand new graduate-specific website. It’s packed full of useful information including who Npower are, their graduate schemes, which events and careers fairs they’re attending, what they look for in a graduate and lots lots more.
It's well worth a look, even if you’ve never considered a career with them - you may be pleasantly surprised! Click HERE.
Want the chance to win £10,000? Enter the npower Energy Challenge!
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Interested in an overseas adventure with a chance to make a difference? If you are up to the challenge, apply for the UBS Horizons program. Together, we’ll make you go far.
Application deadline: 17 January 2010. www.ubs.com/horizons.
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