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Life outside your degree he path from an English degree to life in the City of London, by James Douglass I always knew I wanted to write. I had a halfformed plan to become some kind of journalist, but I wasn’t quite silly enough to think one could walk into it.

I spent the irst couple of years at Cambridge doing stand-up comedy, before getting involved with Varsity as Food Editor.

I knew there was no way I was going to walk into a job without proving I had some chops, so I wrote for anyone, for free. I worked for the Guardian as a student columnist in their online section, got work experience at my local paper – which was depressing. I covered eight lower shows in my irst week. Meanwhile I applied for any journalism jobs going, and had interviews for the kind of trade publications that make it into the inal bit of Have I Got News For You. After a while, I answered an advert looking for young graduates with editing experience and ended up working for an online journal called Parliamo. It was tough work; it was a start-up company and we frequently worked 12 hour days in order to try and build the website from scratch. Sadly, it folded, and that’s when I made the move to change my career.

I applied for anything to do with politics and media, and ended up doing a three month internship at Luther Pendragon, which was where I learned how to do PR. I’d never really thought about PR as a career, but I it the proile; I knew a bit about newspapers, and I could write engagingly and quickly. When the internship ended I took the irst serious job I was ofered at a PR agency. I ended up working there for ive years.

It was tiny – at its smallest there were just ive of us – and so I had to be able to do everything, including planning and styling photography shoots and photoshopping afterwards. I worked with everyone from multinational insurance companies to a company that made padlocks in a shed in Leeds. After a while, though, there were too many

clients and after one drove me up the wall once too often I left.

Now at the ICAEW I work in the media relations department for accountancy and inance . It is mostly shaping messaging, content creation and media liaison. So, for example, I might have to learn all about a topic, say, Bahrain’s oil industry, or how a business goes public in Singapore, or whether there are enough women in leadership positions in Abu Dhabi, depending on our current brief. hen we decide what we want to achieve – to highlight the work we are doing in that area, or to try and inluence the debate, and I write an article about it. hen either pitch it to a journalist in the UK, or get one of our agencies to do it in another country. You need to be a quick learner and capable or remembering quite a lot of info, whilst also aware of potential nuance and how things might look from outside the profession.

In the future, I would love to be managing public relations for a large body in a challenging area where there are a lot of issues to get to grips with.

I love working in PR, but I relish the excitement of dealing with complex and politically or socially sensitive issues. Anyone can do PR for a charity that rescues kittens.

To current Cambridge undergraduates, get as much work experience as you can – and be happy to do it for free if you can aford to; if you’re learning skills then you’re getting something out of it. Never pass up the opportunity to try something even if you don’t think it’s of immediate relevance – you never know when it will come in handy.

Have a think about how your hobbies might turn out to be transferable skills – two years of stand-up means I am completely comfortable with public speaking and presentation.

James graduated with a BA in English Literature from Sidney Sussex in 2003

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If you join us, you’ll interact with clients on projects that help improve their business. You’ll team with senior associates to learn on the job. And you’ll be in charge of your own careers, working with your manager to decide what’s next, and how to get there. Sound good?

Then plan to Go Beyond at Towers Watson.

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Daniel Abell WORKING FOR OLIVER WYMAN

studying at university. At a recruiting event, someone described Oliver Wyman as a irm which did impactful, analytical work but was also fun.

My internship showed that not only was this description true but that it was also a meritocracy. People are valued for their contributions and stretched to their true potential.

I was interested in the depth and breadth of experiences which consulting ofers and applied for an internship at Oliver Wyman whilst

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From Day One (even as an intern), I doing work which directly underpinned Oliver Wyman’s recommendations to clients. It was exciting and daunting at irst – but also fantastic to see my results being used straight away to drive recommendations and business decisions for the client. Consultants are rapidly given responsibility for critical analysis along with ample support to develop the necessary skills.

It’s a tremendously fun place to work. My colleagues are international, smart and driven, but also have a bewildering array of interests which they bring to work. here are groups for basketball, cycling, sailing and netball as well as a theatre / musical group! Oliver Wyman wants their staf to be content both professionally and personally so there’s always some kind of irm-supported activity to take up.

I also participate in volunteering and campus recruiting. However my main focus is to support and expand our employee resource group, GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies at Oliver Wyman). In my irst year, I assisted in coordinating an ofsite which allowed members to network and strategically plan for the future.

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Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why for us, and your career, this is the best of all worlds. hoganlovells.com/graduates

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GRAD PROFILE

Toby Kirk MATHS, & COMPUTER SCIENCE 2000, WORKING FOR ENSOFT

How did you start working for Ensoft?

I realised that the start of my 4th year at university saw the end of my student days looming, and so I actually needed to take a look at all those careers emails I had been iltering away.

Ensoft were doing a presentation in Cambridge so I went along – for the free food if nothing else! he work sounded interesting, the starting salary was good and the application process was as simple as emailing my CV. I’ve now been working here for eight years.

What was the recruitment process like?

As easy as claimed! I just sent of my CV and was invited for an interview the following week. his consisted of a couple of interviews and an aptitude test – a total of around two hours. I was ofered a job within a couple of weeks.

Can you describe exactly what you do for the company?

I’m a ‘second line’ software development manager. I have responsibility for a number of teams working on diferent projects, writing the software that runs as part of the operating system on Cisco’s highend routers.

Day to day the work is quite variable. As we work through projects, this can include learning about a new technology, discussing solutions with other teams across the world and within Ensoft, writing technical documents, discussing design decisions, checking the status of people’s work, and planning for future projects.

What are the hours like?

I tend to work around 9.30-7 with a

break for lunch (and maybe a game of table tennis). Hours are fairly lexible – the onus is on what you achieve each week rather than what time you clock out.

Do you find that a Cambridge education gave you any kind of advantage or disadvantage in your line of work?

he work we do on high-end routers largely boils down to providing elegant solutions to diicult problems. he strong analytical and problem solving skills developed by my degree at Cambridge has stood me in good stead for this.

Where do you see yourself in a few years’ time with the company?

he work with Cisco is always evolving, with new technologies needed to solve new networking problems. In a few years I expect to be helping to solve the problems caused by whatever follows the iPhone or iPlayer in shaping what networks need to handle.

What do you enjoy the most about your work with Ensoft?

he work is varied and demanding – it keeps me interested and I’m never trying to while away the hours. he company atmosphere and culture is also great – there’s an informal oice environment and plenty going on socially.

What kind of work can people expect to be doing in their first year at Ensoft?

We expect to get new graduates working on production code and contributing as part of a development team in under a month. his typically means being assigned a module of code to write and test.

At the same time, the close team

structure includes a mentor for new graduates, which means there is plenty of support.

What kind of guidance is given to you when it came to developing your career goals?

I have a weekly status meeting and a formal appraisal once a year to cover my performance and to discuss my goals. In general, I have been given opportunities to take on more responsibility and achieve career goals as soon as I have proven myself able to.

Can you describe Ensoft’s ideal employee?

We look for people who work hard and take pride in their work, and that should be backed up by a strong academic record.

Some experience is useful, though not essential, and it’s great to ind recent graduates who have developed applications.

Lastly, the ideal employee its in socially. It’s really important that new graduates can interact well within teams at Ensoft, and as importantly, that they can work well with our customers.

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GRAD PROFILE

Adam Sibson NATURAL SCIENCES, 2001, WORKING FOR DATASCOPE

What draws people to the games industry? here are as many reasons as people, some love the games themselves and will do anything to work in the industry. Others enjoy the unique technical challenges gaming ofers, designing AI systems or graphics with limited computing resources, or diving into the enormous quantities of data gamers generate to derive business, design or marketing insights.

For a programmer, in what ways is the games industry different from other industries?

I think the main diference is the speed with which things move in video games. We have tight deadlines and relatively small teams so this means that you will spend very little time iterating the same code. Normally, in the games industry, you build a feature, implement it and then not look at it again until the QA inevitably ind bugs.

With the benefit of hindsight, what things do you wish you knew when you were an undergraduate?

intuitive understanding or natural interest in the sector so you have a better understanding of what questions to ask in the irst place.

here are far more roles in many more sectors than you’re aware of, I never considered ields like marketing as I came from a more technical background. here are many programmatic and analytical roles now in this and related sectors. Don’t narrow the ields you consider and do some research on what’s out there. You have a greater breath of skills you can develop than you realise. Additionally the most powerful combination in the work place is technical and softskills.

What are the key things a company will look for in a games programmer?

How was the transition from studying at Kings College to work? he transition was quite easy, the thing that took the most getting used to was working in a noisy environment you have less control over than you may be used to as a student.

What does a job in games programming offer that, say, a programming job in a bank does not?

What is different about working in low level graphics engineering from games programming?

he amount of creative control you will be given in the games industry is much greater. You will be given a problem to solve and it will be up to you how you go about solving it, even if this means changing legacy code. Most studios will be happy for you to do it as long as you can make a case for it.

he main diference is the end product which you are producing.

If you like writing optimised code, clever solutions and you approach a problem like a mathematician, then you will get that in graphics and low level engineering. he code itself is the end product.

However, the end product for a games programmer is something much more visual. So a gameplay programmer will work very closely with the design team and is quite often involved in design discussions.

What are the hours like? his depends very much on the company, most companies will have periods of crunch time where people work long-hours. A few have excessive hours all of the time, others are better at looking after their staf as you will ind in most sectors.

What are the key things a company will look for in a data analyst?

Attention to detail and often an

he irst thing is excellent programming and problem solving skills and this will be tested throughout the recruitment process. he next thing is a solid understanding of the fundamentals of computers. Being able to code is one thing but knowing what that code does to the CPU or GPU and how much RAM it’s using that will set you apart from the competition. he inal thing is a passion for games. he best way to prove your passion for games is to already be working on your own projects outside of your university work as it will really make your portfolio get attention for all the right reasons.

What kinds of software engineering roles outside games do you hire for?

For people who are more interested in the underlying technology and in algorithms then there are roles in video compression, graphics manipulation, drivers, plugins and image recognition. We also have roles in, say, mobile apps development - maybe in AI or edutainment or more commercial apps such as a medical simulation.

As long as a role is intellectually challenging then we will be interested in it.

Do you have scope for being creative?

Absolutely. Our clients want people who come up with new ideas. Sometimes a programmer just receives inspiration from God and then runs with it. And, of course, games often have unique requirements that result in tight solutions that can in some cases >

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outperform unwieldy solutions from more academic sources. An example of this is the application of games pathing methods to some of the autonomous vehicle challenges run by DARPA. What kinds of Game Software Engineering Roles do you hire for?

We cover all areas of software engineering in video Games which include: Artificial Intelligence; Gameplay - working closely with designer to create the core loops for the players to keep them coming back for more; Graphics/VFX - to work with artists to ensure that their hard work is rendered in all its glory;

Tools development - working with other developers and building them tools to work faster; Physics programming ensuring players are in correctly simulated worlds as they move and collide in the game world; Network/ Multiplayer Programming ensuring players can play each other in lag free and secure sessions.

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Tor Garnett NATURAL SCIENCES, 2007, WORKING FOR THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

challenging - ethically, mentally, intellectually, emotionally.

I have been lucky enough to be able to help people in some of the toughest moments of their lives and have learnt from some extraordinary and compassionate experienced oicers.

I graduated with a irst in Natural Sciences in 2007 and joined the Metropolitan Police straight after and spent two years responding to 999 calls in Hackney. I then trained to be a detective and was promoted to being a Detective Sergeant in Lambeth, before working on the Trident Gangs Command.

Last year I became a Detective Inspector — working for a year as a Neighbourhood inspector in Leyton/Leytonstone and now leading a team of 40 detectives in Waltham Forest.

here is huge opportunity within policing to innovate and improve — I set up the Commissioner’s 100 — a group of frontline oicers keen to change the met- and we have persuaded the Met to launch Police Now. Police Now is a two year graduate leadership programme. It will put great graduates who wouldn’t

normally consider policing onto the frontline as Dedicated Ward Oicers, in charge of a patch of London, who will be measured on their ability to boost conidence and reduce crime. hey’ll get a unique opportunity to make a diference and develop critical transferable skills and after two years we’ll support them to pursue a career outside, or inside, the police.

Policing, and more importantly communities, will get a further injection of tenacious, committed, innovative individuals to add to ranks of committed and capable oicers who are trying to make a diference in communities through delivering quality policing.

Being a police oicer is a privilege.

I have been given signiicant responsibility since day 1 and it has been both rewarding and

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TEACHING

TeachFirst In the UK today, the link between how much your family earn and how well you do in school and in life is stronger than almost anywhere in the developed world.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

We are a charity working to end educational inequality.

We believe inspirational teaching and leadership is key to helping every child succeed, regardless of their background. Since 2002 over 7000 graduates have joined the Teach First Leadership Development Programme (LDP) in schools across England and Wales and helped change the lives of thousands of young people in low-income communities. he LDP is a personalised programme encompassing high-quality training, supportive coaching, work experience and a PGCE qualiication. he skills and experience gained can be taken forward into any career. hat’s why many businesses recognise our programme’s ability to efect change and develop leaders for the future. Put simply, they know that graduates who can engage, stimulate and inspire in the classroom can handle pretty much any situation in any organisation.

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beyond.

Some people join us knowing they want to stay in education; some are sure that they don’t; and others are uncertain about their plans. All of them ind the experience of our Leadership Development Programme to be powerful, rewarding and enlightening. And all are changed by it.

Apply now for the 2015 cohort and explore exciting internship and employment opportunities at www. teachirst.org.uk/graduates and join 2000 other graduates committed to ending educational inequality.

Education has the power to transform lives. So do you.

Employer Presentation: 1pm-2pm hursday 6th November in he Pitt Building

Your LDP is a two-year commitment, but we want it to be the foundation of a life-long engagement with our work to ensure every young person has an education they can be proud of. As well as training inspirational teachers in the classroom,W we support our network of ambassadors — those who have completed the LDP — to drive forward change in education in inluential leadership positions in education, business and

PUBLIC SECTOR

Metropolitan Police he aim of Police Now is to catalyse enduring change in communities, and ultimately to break the link between crime and deprivation.

Police Now’s vision is to transform the most challenged communities by making them safer, reducing crime and increasing conidence in the police by recruiting and developing outstanding individuals to be leaders in their communities and on the policing frontline.

Police Now is an intensive and demanding two year leadership development programme where graduates

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will become a Dedicated Ward Oicer in some of London’s most challenging wards and reduce crime.

Participants will be guided and supported by their mentor from the Metropolitan Police providing them with the necessary skills. Exclusive leadership workshops are available from the Platinum Partners providing essential transferable skills.

For more information about how you can apply to Police Now, please log onto www.policenow.org.uk

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CONSULTANCY

Oliver Wyman Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With oices in 50+ cities across 25 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialised expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organisation transformation. Our 3,000 professionals help clients optimise their business, improve their operations and risk proile, and accelerate their organisational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.

Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC). For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com/careers and follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.

Why Join Us? Our work is marked by exceptional impact for our clients. By consistently producing results, we have earned a reputation for quality work and attractive career opportunities.

•A growing, entrepreneurial irm with exceptional economics; global reach with revenues exceeding $1.5 billion in 2012 •More client exposure on Day One and signiicant international opportunities •A meritocratic ecosystem that provides for rapid advancement to Partner without an MBA •Specialisation at your own pace, with an opportunity for breadth and depth •Attractive compensation for performance •A company that is committed to work-life balance and

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having fun •Extensive opportunities to allow career lexibility including: corporate externships, 10/11-month work years or sabbaticals, non-proit fellowships, and international staing opportunities he Role Our challenging Consultant position ofers exceptional career growth and opportunity to motivated and hardworking graduates. As a Consultant you will: •Work in teams to solve high level business problems facing Global 1000 clients •Structure and carry out essential research and analysis •Lead complex quantitative, strategic and inancial analyses of corporations and businesses •Receive support to rapidly develop leadership and client management skills •Receive broad exposure to a variety of industries including: Automotive, Aviation, Communications, Financial Services, Energy, Health & Life Sciences, Media, Retail, Surface Transportation and Technology.

Qualiications We look for initiative, intuition and creativity with a strong background in problem solving and analytics. We do not require a speciic academic major or industry experience. One of the best things we can do for our clients and ourselves is to recruit a diverse group of people who bring a broad range of strengths and backgrounds to their roles.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Towers Watson At Towers Watson our associates help the world’s largest multinational corporations tackle their key people, beneits and risk issues. If you have the talent and the drive, you could too.

We ofer diverse learning opportunities through working on complex yet interesting assignments. If you have a lair for numbers, people and problem-solving, then you can help to solve some of today’s most complex business problems, whilst developing your career. You will work in a team with a broad network of colleagues across a large geographic footprint whilst providing bespoke and innovative solutions to clients – some of the world’s leading organisations. Our clients recognise the need for the best ideas from the brightest minds in business, giving our consultants challenges and opportunities that are diicult to ind anywhere else.

As a largely project based business, no two days are the

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same! A Towers Watson graduate will start to experience this straight away, and see this continue as their career develops. New graduates are ofered a varied and exciting career; the irm is big enough to allow a great deal of scope to new graduates to choose their own path yet small enough to feel you are making an impact Whether you join us within Actuarial Consulting, Investment Consulting, Talent and Rewards Consulting or Software Engineering you will beneit from a comprehensive training and development programme.

You will be in charge of your own career, working with your manager to decide what’s next and how to get there. Sound good? hen plan to Go Beyond at Towers Watson.

Ultimately, going beyond means that you’ll be making an impact – to your company, to your professional ield, to your colleagues and most importantly to you.

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LAW

Dentons

www.dentons.com/en-GB/Careers

Dentons is a global irm driven to provide a competitive edge in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. It was formed in March 2013 by the combination of international law irm Salans LLP, Canadian law irm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) and international law irm SNR Denton. Dentons is built on the solid foundations of these three highly valued law irms. Each built an outstanding reputation and valued clientele by responding to the local, regional and national needs of a broad spectrum of clients of all sizes – individuals; entrepreneurs; small businesses and start-ups; local, regional and national governments and government agencies; and mid-sized and larger private and public corporations, including international and global entities.

Dentons’ clients now beneit from approximately 2,600 lawyers and professionals in more than 75 locations spanning 50-plus countries across Africa, Asia Paciic, Canada, Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, the UK and the US who are committed to challenge the status quo and ofer creative, dynamic business and legal solutions.

Training contracts: Your legal training begins with a thorough induction and Professional Skills Course –

but that’s where the hand-holding ends. As a Dentons trainee you’ll be given all the responsibility you can handle, including running parts of cases and meeting with clients. he supportive team around you will include a dedicated supervisor, a trainee partner and our trainee representatives, who’ll ensure you can communicate your views and ideas.

London: You’ll spend six months in four of our seven legal departments. One of your seats will be in Banking and Finance and one will be a contentious seat (or you may attend an external litigation course). You may also have the opportunity to work in one of our international oices or with one of our clients.

Milton Keynes: With seats available in Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Property Litigation, Construction and Employment, you’ll gain broad commercial law experience. You must complete one non-contentious transactional seat and one contentious seat.

Middle East: We’re the largest foreign legal practice in the region. We’d like to hear from nationals of GCC countries interested in training in both our London and our Middle East oices. After qualifying, you’ll

Careers in law

The best of all worlds.

All in one place.

Working with international offices should feel seamless. Yet not every firm works this way. Even fewer do it with the strong sense of shared culture and collaboration that we have fostered at Hogan Lovells. We routinely tackle complex, high profile cross-border deals; but we always tackle them as one.

That’s why for us, and your career, this is the best of all worlds. hoganlovells.com/graduates

Varsity Guide to Careers 2014–15 have the opportunity to apply for a position in one of our Middle East oices.

Summer Vacation Scheme (London and Milton Keynes) and Open Days (London) We ofer a one-week summer scheme in London for law students (July) and in Milton Keynes for both law and non-law students (July).

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In London we also ofer open days for non-law students (December) and for irst year students (April). hese placements consist of business games, department visits and social events, giving potential trainees an insight into commercial law and our way of life at Dentons.

LAW

Hogan Lovells Hogan Lovells is a top global law irm, with around 2,500 lawyers operating out of more than 40 oices in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Our unique balance of ambition and approachability not only attracts prestigious clients but creates a working culture where your own ambition as a trainee solicitor is supported to ensure your success.

Our global diversity and wide range of practice areas gives us a strong reputation for corporate, inance, dispute resolution, government regulatory and intellectual property.

We have an intake of up to 60 trainee solicitors each year, composed of law and non-law graduates. Our two-year training contract is split into four six-month periods of work experience known as ‘seats’. As a trainee solicitor, you will move around four diferent practice areas during this time to gain as much experience as possible: one of your seats will be in either our corporate or inance group, and another in one of our litigation teams. You will also have the option of spend-

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ing time in the second year of training on secondment to one of our international oices or to the in-house legal team of a major client.

We ofer up to 70 places over two highly regarded summer and one winter vacation scheme. You will be working alongside partners, associates and trainees for up to three weeks in key practice areas such as corporate, inance and litigation. You will experience the role of a trainee irst-hand through drafting documents, attending meetings, doing legal research and where possible, attending court. Your hands-on learning will be complemented with tailored workshops, discussions and social events – giving you the chance to experience the best of all worlds.

We also hold a one-week spring vacation scheme in April and two open days tailored for irst year law students in March and July each year.

Detailed information including the dates and application deadlines for all of these programmes can be found on our website at www.hoganlovells.com/graduates

LAW

Slaughter & May Slaughter and May is one of the world’s leading international law irms with an extensive corporate, commercial and inancing practice. Our lawyers are not set monthly or annual targets in terms of the hours they must work or the fees they must charge; what matters is expertise, sound judgement, a willingness to help one another and the highest quality of client services.

During the two-year training contract, trainees gain experience of a broad cross section of our practice, taking an active part in the work of four or ive groups and sharing an oice with a partner or experienced associate. Most trainees spend at least two six-month seats in our multi-specialist corporate, commercial and inancing groups. Our overseas oices and close working relationships with leading ‘best friend’ irms in other

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jurisdictions mean there are opportunities for trainees to work in places such as Amsterdam, Auckland, Brussels, Berlin, Hong Kong, Madrid, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm and Washington.

We do not see the training contract as just a period of professional training to achieve qualiication as a solicitor – we see it as an essential foundation for a rewarding and satisfying career with us. here are approximately 70-80 vacancies for trainee solicitors each year. Starting salaries begin at £39,500 for the irst year of training, and rise to £45,000 in the second year.

We look for candidates with a minimum of a high 2:1 at undergraduate level from any university, and take an equal mix of law and non-law graduates.

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TECHNOLOGY

Datascope Datascope Recruitment is a multi-award winning recruitment company who specialise in helping graduates ind jobs within video games, mobile & related technology development. We ofer a comprehensive over-view of the jobs market. We will work with you to create a bespoke plan of action custom built to help you get the job that is right for you. his will include assisting you in creating the best irst impression possible, coaching you through the interview process and then assisting you in negotiating those all important job ofers.

Based in London, we are the most experienced recruitment agency in the sector, with over two decades of experience in specialist areas including: • Games programming & AI • High end graphics technology and low level GPU engineering • Video compression algorithms • Mobile technology

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Big Data Analytics and metrics

Working with over a hundred developers and publishers worldwide, we are well connected and can ensure that you get access to multiple opportunities to broaden your choice. his might be to work on blockbuster titles such as Alien Isolation Sniper Elite v3, Grand heft Auto or Forza Horizon 2, or it might be to join an advanced technology team with a company like V-Nova or Sony. Many of our positions are ofered exclusively to Datascope, so we have opportunities you won’t ind anywhere else! In addition to this, we have our inger on the pulse of the UK indie and start-up scene, meaning we can help you work on the next big thing before anyone has even heard of them.

If you want to start your career in cutting edge technology, please get in contact at graduates@datascope. co.uk, or call the oice on 020 7580 6018 during normal working hours.

TECHNOLOGY

ECM

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he smart way to a top high-tech job Cambridge-based ecm are the high-tech recruitment experts. hey have over 30 years of experience working with bright, numerate candidates to ind top opportunities with the most innovative technology companies, large and small.Ecm are not a general IT recruitment agency. hey focus on cutting-edge software and electronics roles, and other positions requiring a strong mathematical or technical background. Typically, ecm candidates have a 2.1 or 1st Class degree in a numerate subject, from a top university. Many have higher degrees.

Ecm’s consultants are themselves graduates in maths, engineering, computing and biotech, and specialise in the top high-tech positions, many of which are never advertised elsewhere – not even by the companies themselves.

Efectively ecm ofer smart candidates a ‘one stop shop’ for top high-tech jobs. ecm have a dedicated section of their website featuring jobs for graduates and PhDs. Or just phone them to discuss your career goals – they are always pleased to hear from bright candidates! hey guarantee never to send out your details without your permission, of course, and their services to candidates are completely free of charge.

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