I didn't do a degree in events, nor do I work in advertising so you're more than welcome to ignore my opinion ( :p ), but I've always been under the impression that careers like that will assess you more on your experience than the degree you've got. I did a marketing internship last year while studying English Language, and the interviews I had focused almost solely on what I'd done that would be of benefit, and whether these were in or out of my degree didn't seem to be an issue.

My advice would be to get involved in advertising alongside your degree - there's an advertising society at my uni so maybe there will be at yours, and if there isn't, even better - form one! There are some jobs where you really need the right degree, but I don't think advertising is one of them :)

That said of course, you'll have to be aware of potential preferences for people who studied it as a degree as well as getting involved in it, so hopefully that'll just push you harder to do even more :D

Hi Robin and Snoopyx,

I've worked for a very large IT recruitment firm, a mid size finance recruiter (that was bought out by one of the largest recruiters in the world) and now I work for an independent global recruitment firm.

I have mainly covered Banking (retail, Investment, wealth) finance and accounting contract. The average daily rate of our contractors is £347 per day, as they are qualified accountants they generally work in positions for 9 - 15 months, I did place someone at a bank 6 years ago and they are still contracting there!

I previously worked at university selling home insurance (20 - 25 hours a week) and also ran an ebay business at uni so not directly relevant but what I find is that graduates lack an understanding of the workplace, they do not research enough about recruitment / company and come prepared for an interview.

In the IT firm I was benchmarked to be on the phone for 3 hours a day and had a whole host of activities to hit, lets say it wasn't the nicest environment to be in! I found a much more grown up attitude in financial recruitment companies which suited me, although the experience did give me the reality that to make money the effort and self-motivation was really needed so I look back on it realising why its done, I strongly believe it can be done in a better environment but as a training ground it can work.

I have my teams work to meaningful targets and, so rather than doing 50 calls to clients, I would ask them to generate 3 visits. If this takes 3 calls then great, if it takes 100 then so be it.

You will probably hear of people working very long hours.. I never do and it doesn't affect me - I work 8.30 - 6, in at 8 most days though. lots of very successful people in recruitment don't work 12 hour days. If you are working hard during the day then you won't need to.

Again, feel free to ask me anything.

Hey, guys!

I have applied for PageGroup summer internship and will be having competency based telephone interview (10-30min long) in a few days!!! Any advice on how to prepare for it? Maybe someone did an internship with them?
Thanks a lot!

PS I am in my first year of uni if that really matters

Hi,

Seeing as this was posted a week ago you've probably already done it....but.....I had a group interview for Debenhams on Saturday. First of all you do an "icebreaker" to help you feel more comfortable/settle in to the interview. We had to state two lies and one true thing about ourselves, and the other people in the group had to guess which one was the lie. That wasn't assessed. Then we did the assessed group/individual exercise. We got the words "Customer Focus" and had to think of a word to do with Customer Focus for each of the letters, E.G. "C would be Caring, S could be Smile. We did this on our own for about 5 mins, then we were split up into groups of 3/4 and had to feedback to the rest pf the group what we wrote, then as a group we choose the best words and re-write it using ideas from the group. We then feedback to the other group and interviewers our final choice of words and why we chose them.
After the group interview I also had an individual interview, which I preferred as it felt less pressured. If you had a phone interview before then they just ask you basically the same questions, for example, who would you say are Debenham's competitiors. You'll be fine, just try to relax!

cheers mate, how are you finding it and who do you work for? Maybe I lack confidence, I mean I am told Im good with people but I know Im not good at presentations, do you think there's hope for that kind of skills set?

Most graduate jobs in business/marketing don't ask for a degree in a particular disciple. Tbh, with any job they want to see how you canكيف تعمل موقع شركة بالفيس بوك apply and 'transfer' the skills that you have to the job role. So really the most important كيفية التسويق عبر الفيس بوكaspect is experience .

Unless of course someone wants to be a doctor/lawyer where they will need the degree. :)




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