Adzuna and Milkround’s Graduate of the Year Competition 2013

Posted on May 9, 2013 by flora

Graduates! It’s back! And this time it is bigger and better than ever before. Adzuna has teamed up with top graduate website Milkround to bring you “Graduate of the Year 2013.” Together we are offering you the chance to win a JOB, some CASH and a foot in the door. The rest is up to you!

  1. An internship with a top UK company (including eBay, L’Oreal, Sony & Google)
  2. A cash prize of £1000
  3. A CV clinic with a top UK entrepreneur
  4. The Illustrious Crown of “Graduate of the Year”

The UK employment market is tougher than ever, especially for graduates fresh and eager from university. Competition for graduate positions continues to rise in the UK with over 50 applicants for every available graduate job. Unemployment among 18-25 year olds is the highest it’s been for decades and graduates are finding it tougher than ever to land an entry level position. But there are glimmers of hope in the market, with top employment companies Milkround and Adzuna teaming up to launch a nationwide campaign to find Britain’s “Graduate of the Year 2013”.

If you are a recent or soon-to-be graduate from a recognised UK university then we want to hear from you. We are looking for the brightest, sparkiest, gutsiest individual around.  Whether you excel in arts, music, sports, academia, languages or are an outstanding student union member, leader, or social contributor, we want to hear about you and why you deserve to win.

To enter go to Graduate of the Year 2013 and tell us briefly why you think you are worthy of this magnificent prize.  Deadline is 1st July 2013 and the overall winner will be announced at the Award Ceremony on the 1st August 2013.

Don’t believe us, check out the success of last year’s winner Leo Anthias. Following his internship at Passion Capital, Leo has since gone on to found his own company, Verse (making PowerPoint collaboration painless).

Remember not everyone can be a winner but that doesn’t mean you can’t land your dream job too.  Check out our blog for great interview tips, stellar advice for graduates, thousands of graduate jobs, internships and more vacancies than you can shake a stick at.

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British Employers favour attitude over qualifications

Posted on April 30, 2013 by flora

After a long and bitter winter, spring has finally arrived, and with it a new optimism that our labour market might start to get better.  Despite a tough economic situation our GDP has grown by 0.3% which is just enough to avoid a triple-dip recession. What is more encouraging is the recent job hunting news to come out of our Adzuna data factory which reveals 56% of British employers value a positive working attitude over qualifications, skills and experience. Our data boffins sliced and diced the language companies use in their job ads, revealing huge spikes in demand in the last 12 months for “Problem Solvers”, “Self-Starters” and social media experts, while Customer Service and Perl development skills are in decline.

1000s of keywords were grouped into 4 categories; Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Attitude. There is good news for jobseekers lacking previous experience as the results show a shift in mindset away from qualifications towards attitudinal factors. A positive working attitude is the most sought after attribute of 2013, with 56% of all ads demanding traits such as “Organised”, “Motivated” and “Flexible”. Only 21% of current job ads mention any of the skills analysed, while a mere 19% of ads specify previous experience. Less than 10% of vacancies demand post-school qualifications.

Top 10 Keywords for Attitude, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Money Money Money

Now let’s talk about the dough! The study also reveals that bagging yourself a few useful work-place skills and qualifications could increase the size your pack packet. The UK’s highest paid skills and qualifications are sought after by the Finance, Accounting and Project Management sectors. Candidates with a CIPM qualification can expect to earn £80,000 p.a. while those with a CFA qualification can earn £63,000 on average. Jobseekers after a healthy pay packet should also consider acquiring Project Management credentials such as PMP, Waterfall and Agile. There are over 10,000 Agile vacancies currently advertised, while those with a Prince skillset earn over £48,000. Pinterest-related skills are the biggest riser, followed by LinkedIn, reflecting the increasing importance of social media channels.

Top 10 most overused Buzzwords of 2013

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Tech skills are hotter than ever this year with over 29% of all vacancies after candidates with Developer Skills.  There are over 40,000 ads looking for employees fluent in ‘C++’ language, 21,000 ‘SQL’ ads and 13,000 for ‘Java’. Candidates fluent in ‘Perl’ language are highest paid tech skill in the UK reaping in a healthy salary of £45,259 p.a.

The analysis also shows a new wave of language being used to lure top talent. There are currently 515 UK employers looking for “Gurus”, over demands for 49 “Ninjas” and even 5 companies looking for a “Jedi”. Tech giants Google, Apple and Facebook are leading the hunt for superhero staff, with over 100 job ads from these companies including one of the top 10 wackiest buzzwords, while Mini UK will only accept “true sales legends”

Top 10 Wackiest Buzzwords

Because we list nearly every UK job ad in our search engine, we have a great overview of the language advertisers use in their listings. In a weak economy, with businesses needing to adapt quickly, employers are looking for commitment and a positive attitude to work and setting less value on degrees or years of experience.  Technical and social media skills though remain in hot demand so if you are struggling to find work, try brushing up on some of this employable skills.

Good Luck – and find your perfect job on Adzuna.

Also watch our awesome demo video to learn how to make the most out of Adzuna:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUMWVZdYHNw

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Adzuna is now officially in six markets!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by flora

Following our expansion into Germany last month, we are hugely excited to tell you we have taken our awesome search engine even further afield. Yesterday we publicly launched our jobs search engine in Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Canada with the aim to transform the way job seekers find work across the globe. POW!

Why these five countries I hear you ask? Canada, Germany, Australia, South Africa and Brazil are all exciting growth markets underserved by existing job search tools. Brazil’s and South Africa’s internet usage has really exploded in the last few years – we’re keen to be part of the growth in internet use in these countries.  Germany, Canada and Australia all have large, mature internet populations so these markets pose their own challenges and opportunities.

Will anything be different? – These new localised sites will look, feel and function in exactly the same way as Adzuna UK, indexing job vacancies found on every job board in the market and mining that data in our unique Adzuna way to provide free access to labour market trends such as pay distribution and regional overview.  Our merry band of global jobseekers will also be able to benefit from Adzuna’s social job hunting tool Adzuna Connect. This tool allows users to get hired with a little help from their friends by signing in via Facebook or LinkedIn to leverage their personal and professional connections to help them get a referral.

What is our objective? – Our objective is simple: to change the way people find jobs by adding powerful search, insightful market data and social connections.  On the data side of things, we also intend to reach out to the national governments and build a similar employment market data dashboard for their leaders in the upcoming weeks! As you may have heard, Adzuna’s data powers the Number 10 Dashboard, used by David Cameron and senior officials to keep track of economic growth on a daily basis.  We plan to offer to build free data dashboard apps for the leaders of all these new markets, in an effort to help governments across the globe with better decision making around the economy. The dashboards will include local job vacancy counts, average salaries, unemployment data, regional hiring patterns and much more.

How do we plan to make this work? – Our initial focus will be on gathering all the jobs in these markets (which isn’t easy!) and building a truly great search engine which users will love to use and tell their friends about. Our technology is incredibly scalable, and London, with its polyglot community, is a great place to base a global business. The labour markets may be different in these markets, but the desire for a simple, easy to use tool (which is what we have built) works across the globe.

What does the future hold for Adzuna? – We’re now present in six markets, so our focus for the next few months will be on nurturing these sites into a useful tool people in these countries will love. You’ll see more international expansion from us in the future, but for the time being UK, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Brazil will be our focus.

 

Thanks for all your support and watch this space for more exciting news.

 

 



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