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Your first job
You've qualifications under your belt and are ready to stun the workforce but how do you go about it? Do you get on a graduate training programme, set up by yourself or pick a small firm? We hope these articles will help.
- Richard Hodkinson CEng CITP gives you a flavour of the challenges of working in IT in the legal area.
- Following the launch of the low cost Raspberry Pi, there has been significant discussion on how schools are failing students in provision of IT education.
- After being invited to a school careers fair Roger Cook had a challenging time convincing the students about a career in computing let alone information security. He's glad he went and encourages more members to do the same.
- More than half of young people with a post-GCSE IT qualification are confident about their job prospects in the next year, according to a new survey among 16-30 year olds by BCS, the professional body for IT practioners.
- When I started my first job 10 years ago, I had no idea I would be working in IT.
- Before you head off out the door of your university take the time to speak to your institution's careers service, it will only benefit you in the long run. Joan Newton, head of careers service at the Anglia Ruskin University Essex Campus explains.
- According to a recent survey, universities are failing to help their graduates by providing decent careers guidance before they graduate.
- Your CV will be all a company or agency knows about you when you apply for a job, so you need to get it right.
- By her own admission, Jennifer Hewitt, 26, took a strange route into her present role as a consultant for IBM.
- The IT industry is a great place to carve out a career yet it is facing an acute talent shortage.