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Top 100 graduate employersThe top 100 graduate employers list represents the most recognised employer brand names in graduate recruitment for UK graduates. However, all these programmes will be heavily subscribed for 2012 so also consider looking at the graduate schemes of other employers in a particular sector that don't necessarily have instant 'household name' status or big recruitment advertising budgets.Whilst each organisation is loosely categorised within its core sectors, many of these graduate employers offer opportunities to go into a variety of disciplines such as IT, Finance, Engineering, Project Management and Marketing. The Army need medics and engineers as well as leaders of modern soldiers. IBM are a technology company but they also have a large consultancy operation. The Big 4 accounting firms don't just need accountants, nor does a first career in accountancy limit you to a life of number crunching. Tesco are a major retailer but they also need IT and purchasing professionals as well as future store leaders. The Arcadia Group may not ring any bells of recognition for you but they are the power behind High Street brands such as Burton, TopShop and Miss Selfridge. Think laterally about your skills and interests and how they will be welcomed by particular graduate employers - you don't always have to go for, seemingly, the most obvious choice to begin an interesting and challenging career! The company name link will take you directly to their graduate careers page on their main company website. or career microsite. Accounting & Professional Services PwC Deloitte KPMG Ernst & Young Grant Thornton BDO Don't forget to consult journals such as Accountancy Age where you will also find information on other leading UK accountancy firms with graduate opportunities such as Baker Tilly, Smith & Williamson and PKF. Banking & Finance HSBC Barclays Bank The RBS Group Lloyds Banking Group Investment Banking Goldman Sachs J.P. Morgan Morgan Stanley Barclays Capital UBS Citi Bank of America Merrill Lynch Deutsche Bank Credit Suisse Don't forget other employers in this sector such as insurance giants Standard Life and others such as Standard Chartered, Zurich, Friends Life . Charity Cancer Research UK Oxfam Structured graduate schemes are hard to come by in this sector but trying applying for a 'proper job' at a charity instead and make your own way up. Or, develop your skills in the private or public sector first and then move across later. Don't forget many of the big professional services consultancies and media companies have charity clients you could get assigned to. Chemical & Pharmaceuticals AstraZeneca GlaxoSmithKline Check out specific searches in this sector for employers with less high profiles schemes on graduate websites such as Milkround. Consulting Accenture Bain & Company Boston Consulting Group McKinsey & Company Don't forget to check out other major players such as Booz Allen Hamilton and Capgemini. Other professional services and IT providers such as PwC and IBM also offer routes into consulting. Consumer Goods Diageo (brands include Smirnoff, Baileys, Guinness & Tanqueray) Kraft Foods (brands include Kenco, Dairylea, Toblerone, Oreo, Carte Noire) L'Oréal (additional brands include Body Shop, Keraste, Vichy, Lancome, Maybelline) Mars (brands include Dolmia, Whiskas, Twix, Milky Way) Procter & Gamble (brands include Pampers, Tide, Pantene, Head and Shoulders) Sony (brands include Walkman, Playstation and Vaio) Unilever (brands include Flora, Dove, Persil, Magnum, Knorr, Pot Noodle) Don't forget to check out other major players such as Danone or The Coca-Cola Company and consider the many individual brands that each company in this category represent. Every one needs a small army of brand managers and a support team of purchasing, IT and finance team members to make them successful. Engineering, Transport & Industrial Airbus Arup Atkins BAE Systems Balfour Beatty Jaguar Land Rover Rolls-Royce Siemens Transport for London Network Rail Don't forget to check out more opportunities with companies such as GE or BMW and specialist grad sites such as Gradcracker. IT & Telecoms BT IBM Vodafone And..........O2, Google, Apple , Intel and Microsoft. Law Allen & Overy Baker & McKenzie Clifford Chance DLA Piper Freshfields Herbert Smith Hogan Lovells Linklaters Slaughter and May Check out more information on 'Magic Circle' and other law firms here. Media The BBC Bloomberg Penguin Saatchi & Saatchi Sky WPP And also check out top employers such as Thomson Reuters and Random House Oil or Energy BP ExxonMobil Shell nucleargraduates Centrica E.ON EDF Energy npower Public Sector Civil Service GCHQ MI5 NHS Teach First It's well worth exploring these organisations thoroughly - the public sector offers scope for many more diverse, influential and interesting career choices than you might at first realise. Armed Forces The Army The Royal Navy The Royal Air Force Retailing Boots Arcadia Group John Lewis Marks & Spencer Harrods Aldi Asda The Co-operative Group Lidl Sainsbury’s Tesco Shop floor experience is vital to understanding the retail business, however, these companies also offer interesting routes to careers in purchasing, IT, marketing and HR and finance. Useful resources
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