HumeTraining has launched five new professional courses with arranged work experience aimed specifically at Computing, New Media and Marketing graduate job seekers and professionals looking for jobs and work placements in creative industries.
There is nothing that annoy and aggravate most graduates like the portion of a job advert that is mentioning gap year work placements required for job vacancies. Many graduate job seekers question where on earth do people get job experience or how can graduate job seekers secure work placement to get more applicable experience to satisfy the employers prerequisites. How do you get work experience without taking a year out? According to research, many graduate job seekers who take a gap year after university are facing a "career crisis", because they are taking low-paid secretarial jobs.
Whilst university graduate unemployment in the UK is at a 15-year high and the job market is flooded with recent graduates, companies can take their pick of the best of the best. More than 45 recent graduates are expected to compete for each graduate role this year. It is a fact that students who have not bothered to secure work experience whilst at university or college have "little or no" chance of getting a job. Information Technology was the most difficult degree with which to get employment in 2010. It is believed that only 7 percent of Computing and Media students have relevant commercial skills.
It is also true that Digital Media was the industry that students of 2010 most wanted to be employed in. A remarkable 15.2% of students saying they had either applied or planned to go into the industry. Digital Media studies students are facing the second highest level of unemployment amongst university leavers in the UK.
One thing you will need to understand is the reality that by the time the companies or recruitment agents put forth the advert, they are convinced that the graduate job market out there has many graduate job seekers with relevant commercial skills.
Hume Training, a Birmingham based professional training company is in a unique position to help job seekers to secure a desirable job and help those seeking work placement opportunities to increase their employability. Hume Training has established strong partnerships with a number of promising digital media companies in Fazeley Studios, Birmingham who are willing to offer graduate job seekers work placements. Hume' Continuing Professional Development courses are a very winning formula allowing graduate job seekers to consolidate their learning and skills in a challenging commercial setting, and giving them the opportunity to excel in front of potential employers.