How to get the best graduate job : insider strategies for success in the graduate job market

You're one of 400,000 students to graduate from university in a year.

You want a good graduate job. Yet you know competition is fierce. This is the first book to go behind the scenes and show you exactly how you do it. Over the last three years, two leading political economists went behind the scenes of the graduate jobs market.

The first independent observers ever to be allowed into assessment centres, they sat in on final interviews, observed psychometric tests being given, and watched decisions on candidates being made.

What they discovered was that there were far fewer graduate jobs than anyone had realised, that the way that the successful candidates were chosen was arbitrary and subjective, and that some candidates had worked out how to manipulate the system in order to secure the jobs for themselves.