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Graduate Job Hunt

A final-year plan for landing a first graduate role: target sectors, scheme opening dates, online tests, video interviews, assessment centres, early-career networking and a conditional offer turned into a start date.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Graduate Job Hunt, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Graduate Job Hunt

Landing a first role after university with graduate schemes, applications, assessment centres and early-career networking.

  1. Final-year graduate job hunt timeline
  2. Shortlist of target graduate sectors and roles
  3. Weekly hours budget for applications alongside study
  4. Graduate scheme versus direct-entry role decision
  5. Long list of thirty graduate employers
  6. First appointment with the university careers service
  7. Right-to-work and visa check for international graduates
  8. Entry requirements and predicted grade check
  9. Graduate application kit and answer bank
  10. Weekly graduate vacancy scan
  11. Scheme opening dates watch
  12. Monthly application funnel review
  13. Monthly careers adviser meeting
  14. Employer events and campus fair calendar
  15. Twice-weekly online test practice
  16. Weekly alumni and early-career contact message
  17. Rejection log and feedback requests
  18. Sunday rest and morale check
  19. Numerical reasoning test skills
  20. Verbal and logical reasoning practice
  21. Situational judgement test preparation
  22. Game-based and personality assessments
  23. Why this scheme and motivation answers
  24. One-way video interview practice
  25. Assessment centre group exercise skills
  26. Case study and in-tray exercise practice
  27. Assessment centre presentation task
  28. Student experience turned into graduate evidence
  29. Postgraduate study or graduate job decision
  30. Choosing where to start work after graduating
  31. Speculative approaches to smaller employers
  32. Second-wave plan for spring and off-cycle openings
  33. Schemes that sponsor professional qualifications
  34. Autumn graduate careers fair
  35. Assessment centre day plan
  36. Results day plan for a conditional offer
  37. Accepting a graduate offer and declining others
  38. Pre-start checks before the scheme begins
  39. Returning home to work after studying abroad
  40. Mature student graduate applications
  41. Reasonable adjustments in graduate selection
  42. First-generation graduate building contacts from scratch
  43. Plan for a lower degree grade than expected
  44. Job hunting after graduation without an offer
  45. Public sector and fast-track graduate programmes
  46. International graduate schemes and roles abroad
  47. Competitive scheme final-round preparation
  48. Commercial awareness for graduate selection
  49. Final-year job hunt peer group
  50. Graduate season retrospective and advice for juniors

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Final-year graduate job hunt timeline

Many large graduate schemes open in early autumn and some close as soon as they fill, so a student who starts after the winter exams can find half their targets already shut. A single timeline that sets the application season beside your coursework, dissertation and exam dates shows which months are for applying and which are protected for study.

First tasks

  • Copy every coursework, dissertation and exam date from your module handbooks onto one calendar
  • Look up when graduate schemes in your three target sectors usually open and close
  • Mark two protected study weeks where no applications go out
  • Revisit the timeline and move anything that has slipped @recurring(quarterly)

Shortlist of target graduate sectors and roles

Applying to everything with the word graduate in the title produces forty generic applications and few interviews. Narrowing to two or three sectors and a handful of role types, based on what your degree, part-time work and interests actually point to, lets every answer you write sound like you mean it.

First tasks

  • Write down ten sectors or role types you would consider applying to
  • Read two graduate job descriptions from each to see what the work involves
  • Score each option out of five on interest, fit and how many entry routes exist
  • Pick your top two or three and name one fallback sector

Weekly hours budget for applications alongside study

Expect a strong graduate scheme application to take four to eight hours once the online test and video stage are counted, and final-year students who do not ring-fence that time either neglect their degree or send rushed forms. Deciding a fixed number of weekly hours, and where they sit in your week, keeps both on track.

First tasks

  • Time how long your next application takes from start to submit
  • Choose a weekly hours figure that fits around lectures and any paid work
  • Block two or three application slots in your calendar
  • Compare hours spent with your budget at the end of the week @recurring(weekly:fri)

Make it yours.

Install Graduate Job Hunt, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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