TARGETjobs career advice round up

Hello and welcome to this week’s TARGETjobs career advice round up blog. The one place where you can find all of the career advice articles we have published and updated throughout the week.

As usual, I’ll start with some internal announcements:

Have you voted for your employer of choice yet? This is your chance to shape the 2014 edition of the Guardian UK 300 and influence how recruiters are regarded in the industry. There are also some great prizes at stake for those who take part, as we are doing a fortnightly prize draw. Prizes include: iPad minis, meals out, shopping sprees and much more.

Last week Hannah Murphy from the University of Reading won a shopping voucher from Asos. Next week it could be you. Take part in the trendence UK Graduate Barometer now for your chance to win and have your say.

Our Engineer your Future event is taking place on Monday... want to see what other events we have coming up this month, why not visit our TARGETjobs Events site?

And, if you are considering postgraduate study, don’t forget that on Wednesday 27 November we will be in London with our first postgraduate fair of the season. This is a great chance to meet representatives from universities across the UK, get individual advice, discuss funding and much more.

On to career advice now,

If you are applying to property firm Knight Frank this term, check out these tips on how to get your CV noticed.

Nationwide your employer of choice? Find out how to answer their tricky application form question.

And discover how to make your CVand cover letter shine in their application form

Talking about the banking sector, here is how to ace your online application forms for insurance and retail banking graduate jobs

And we conclude the blog with next week’s graduate job deadlines – lots of investment banking and IT schemes coming to an end. 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.