Are you considering further study to boost your opportunities in the graduate job market?

Have you checked out postgradcracker.com?

In November last year we launched the new postgraduate study section on Gradcracker geared around engineering and technology. Many of the UK’s leading Universities including Cranfield, Brunel and Leeds quickly launched microsites within the section.

We have already developed the site further!

It now has its own domain - www.postgradcracker.com - as well as still being accessible from the main menu bar of Gradcracker, and a brand new homepage.

Universities advertise their postgraduate taught courses and research opportunities and you can find all the information you will need to decide which ones to apply to.

You can also find the latest news from the Unis, check out upcoming events & open days and read useful advice about further study options.

As well as all of this, we have also implemented new search tools! Now, you do not have to search by University, you can also search by keyword or course title.

If you’re considering postgraduate study, there’s only one place to look… www.postgradcracker.com 

I can’t wait to hear what you think!

Have you visited our new and much improved video and photo gallery?

I have just finished working on it and you can now access the video and photo content from around Gradcracker - all in one place!

There are corporate videos produced by many of our employers which will give you an idea of what they do and what they are like to work for.

You can also access all the video profiles of recent engineering graduates working for different Gradcracker employers and get an idea of how they've adapted to the world of work and what their early experiences have taught them.

Then there are the photographs from our Uni careers fairs and visits. There are photos from our journeys to the Universities, photos from around the campus and shots taken from the fair itself (if you or your friends have visited our exhibition stand you might be pictured!).

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Gradcracker sponsors "Bioengineering Day" at Imperial College London

The students from Imperial and Oxford Universities have got together to present a "Bioengineering Day" and have asked Gradcracker to sponsor and publicise the event to the companies who advertise on Gradcracker. We agreed to do so because we want to find out more about Bioengineering ourselves and because we want to encourage and support engineering students who show initiative and proactivity when seeking employment.

The students have secured a guest speaker, Dr Leonard Fass, Director of Academic Relations at GE Healthcare, and they are being supported and helped by senior academics at the two universities.

They have organised a series of events to help recruiters gain a better understanding of what Bioengineering involves and why it is a discipline that should be considered when recruiting graduates.

We can't wait to hear what they've got to say and we'll keep you posted!

Glasgow, Durham and Salford Universities

Annie pictured with Civil Engineers Lulu Snell and Chris Willetts at Durham University.

The careers fair season has started again and we are back on the road! Last week Annie and Sean attended careers fairs at Glasgow and Durham Universities, while Angela exhibited at Salford University.

As well as meeting almost 500 new engineering students, who all registered on Gradcracker, we also met many students who were already registered on Gradcracker and just came over to say hello! And of course, receive their Gradcracker t-shirt. Check out the photos from Glasgow & Durham in the Gallery.

Many of the employers at the fairs were already advertising on Gradcracker: Alstom, Amey, BAE Systems, Mott MacDonald, Lloyd's Register, Thales and SELEX Galileo, to name just a few, but we also got the chance to speak to many potential new advertisers. So keep a look out on the site for when they join us………………

Gradcracker - our secret weapon - the web team

Our Senior Web Developer, Mark, working on the latest improvement project.

Many of our employers wonder why Gradcracker can implement changes - such as deadline extensions and new opportunities - within minutes, while other graduate sites take weeks or even months to make similar alterations.

One reason might be that our web team is in-house - that is, we don't use an external company to maintain and manage Gradcracker.

Our team is directly employed by Gradcracker and they work with the latest computer technology to ensure the fastest and most efficient service in our sector.

When our Customer Services team takes instructions from an employer, they can work with the web team to brief them on the changes and monitor their speedy and accurate implementation.

Every week the team meets and brainstorms new ideas to keep gradcracker.com at the cutting edge of web-based recruitment.

There is always a healthy stock of new ideas and initiatives for the team to implement on the site. Some focus on search facilities - making the job-hunting process ever more streamlined and efficient for our engineering students. Others might involve new features - like this recent blog section, which has become very popular with our visitors.