TARGETjobs career advice weekly roundup

Hello everyone, welcome to this week's roundup post! 

As always I have the latest career news and updates for you all.

To start off the roundup here are this week's upcoming graduate job and work experience deadlines. ScotGrad have a number of internship opportunities this week, including roles in IT, marketing and management. Apply today to be in with the chance to gain some valuable work experience. (Internship deadlines)

Why not kick start your job hunt this weekend by applying for some of the opportunities we have available? This week's a bumper week for graduate jobs and the deadlines are closing in. Apply here!

Now, onto the latest career advice 

Law

Have a look at our roundup of the latest deadlines, commercial awareness stories and interesting tidbits that you might like to know as a law student. Wigs in Westminster, Allen & Overy in South Africa, a ruckus over human rights and more winter vac scheme deadlines and applications advice than you can shake a stick at – what more could you need.  

Many law firms offer winter vacation schemes with application deadlines between 31 October and mid-November including magic circle firm, Allen & Overy. Finalists and graduates: read our advice before submitting an Allen & Overy vac scheme application this month (the firm wants to hear from penultimate year students in December) Read our article here: 'How vacation scheme applicatns can answer Allen & Overy's online application form questions'.

Property

The graduate schemes for real estate giant JLL close on 3 November. We have advice on answering the tricky application questions, have a read of our article: 

'How to answer JLL's application question on why you are applying and what you can achieve'

'How to answer JLL's application question on showing courage, trust and agility'.

Cushman & Wakefield closes on 14 November – the advice students need is here:'Highlight your ambition: tips for Cushman & Wakefield's graduate application form'

Retail

We also have new advice when applying for Tesco, have a read of our article 'How to answer Tesco's motivation for applying graduate application question'. and also, 'How to tackle Tesco's 'Describe a time when...' application questions'.

TARGETpostgrad

Just a quick update from TARGETpostgrad,  Bournemouth University offers scholarships for candidates with a strong academic record of accomplishment. Have a read here if you want to apply.

That's all from me this week!

Enjoy your weekend,

Roxanne