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Understanding Graduate Schemes
There isn’t a strict definition, but graduate schemes tend to be defined by the following criteria:
- Operated by large organisations which are often household names e.g. Civil Service, NHS, PwC, GSK, BT
- Fixed term – usually 18 months – 2 years. Most people are offered permanent jobs with the organisation at the end of the fixed term.
- These are real jobs with some additional study/support elements. Many operate a rotational system so that graduates spend some time working in different departments.
- Well paid – they usually have better pay and benefits than other graduate options.
- Competitive – when you read in the media c.80 people applying for every graduate job, it’s generally graduate schemes they are talking about.
- Some organisations set entry requirements of 2.1 or above and some set UCAS requirements. There is also usually a long recruitment process.
- Timeline – most (but not all) are open for applications in autumn and many (but not all) close by December.
- Graduate schemes are not the only route to a graduate job! Most graduates find graduate level work outside of graduate schemes.
Find graduate schemes:
- General sources of graduate jobs in Maths & Physics
- Bright Recruits.com
- Jobs in Science.com
- ECM Selection – Recruitment Consultancy specialising in high tech
- New Scientist Jobs
- Science Careers
- Intertrade Ireland Career Boost Programme - this programme connects STEM graduates with jobs in Irish SMEs
- Accountancy, Banking, Finance, Management Consultancy and Technology Consultancy
- Banking Jobs UK – Banking related jobs board
- eFinancialCareers – Banking and finance related jobs board
- FinTRU – local company hiring graduates of any degree to work in finance
- Inside Careers - Banking & Investments - Banking and finance related jobs board
- State Street – international company hiring graduates locally to work in banking and finance
Accounting, Management and Technology Consultancy
Some international companies hiring graduates of any degree discipline to work in a range of areas including Accounting, business consultancy and technology consultancy: - Data Science & Statistics
- Allstate – Insurance company with data science roles for graduates
- AquaQ Analytics – local data management, data analytics and data mining company who have hired a number of QUB graduates from Maths & Physics
- Datatech – a data science, analytics and statistics company based in England
- StatisticsJobs
- GSS - Government Statistical Service
- Software Engineering & Technology
- Alcatel-Lucent
- First Derivatives plc
- Kainos
- Nanoco Technologies
- SAP Software & Solutions
- Seagate
- TTP - The Technology Partnership - invent, design, develop and engineer new products, processes and instruments
- See also below: Engineering - Telecoms
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Energy Engineering - including oil, gas, nuclear and renewables
- Atkins
- BP
- Earthworks Jobs
- EDF
- Energia
- Environment Job
- ESB
- EirGrid
- E.ON
- Fusion for Energy (European Unsion's undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy) "Traineeships" for graduates are typically advertised end of April/beginning of May.
- GE
- GreenJobs
- Just Engineers
- My Oil and Gas Career
- National Grid careers
- National Nuclear Laboratory
- Nuclear Graduates
- Nuclear Sector Jobs
- Oil and Gas People
- Rigzone
- RenewableUK
- Schlumberger
- Shell Global
- SSE
- UK Atomic Energy Authority Careers
- Space/Aerospace
- AAC Clyde Space
- AE Aerospace
- Airbus Group
- AISTECH Space
- Arralis
- B2Space
- BAE Systems
- Beagle Technology Group
- Bombardier
- Careers at ESA
- MDA
- NASA
- Qinetiq Graduates
- Skyrora
- Space Careers
- SPIN - Space Placements in Industry
- SSTL (Surrey Satelite Technology Ltd)
- Stellar Jobs
- The exhibitors list at the UK annual Space Conference includes a number of other potentially useful companies
- Invest NI's Northern Ireland Space Strategy provides an overview of the plans for the sector and the NI Aerospace brochure lists companies who work in the Space/Aerospace sector.
- Enterprise Ireland have a space industry directory of Irish companies operating in this area. The industry in Ireland is smaller and mainly based around Dublin.
- Follow the UK Space Agency on Facebook to keep up to date with developments
- Scientific equipment manufacturers
- Aerotech - design and manufacture motion control and positioning systems
- Andor – Belfast-based company making high performance scientific digital cameras
- Bartington Instruments
- Bruker
- Cryogenic ltd
- Edwards
- Healthcare21 Group
- Hiden Analytical – design and manufacture quadrupole mass spectrometers
- Keysight Technologies
- Laser Support Services
- Mason Technology
- Oxford Instruments
- Texas Instruments
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Torr Scientific - manufactures and processes Vacuum Optics, Thin Film Coatings, X-ray and Electron-Optical products in clean production conditions
- Telecoms
- Government and Defence
- Civil Service Fast Stream, Civil Service Fast Stream Northern Ireland
- Civil Service Jobs - DSTL and DESG
- GCHQ
- GORS – Government Operational Research
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Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering jobs can be found in all of the links above plus:
- Patents and Intellectual Property
- Medical Science
- Elekta
- The NHS Scientist Training Programme. NB: the programme for England and Wales usually opens recruitment in January/February. NI recruits directly through the HSC Recruit website, typically around May. Outside of the STP there are interesting vacancies in the health service for those students interested in medical science. Look through the NHS jobs websites for: Northern Ireland, England and Wales, Scotland
- HSE Ireland’s public health services
- Equipment manufacturers:
- Research
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Careers at CERN
- Diamond (UK Synchrotron)
- ESRF (European Synchrotron)
- ILL (Institut Laue-Langevin)
- Jobs.ac.uk
- National Physical Laboratory
- New Scientist Jobs
- Science & Technology Facilities Council
- TopCareerJobs
- SFI - jobs in research ROI
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) (UK) - opportunities for graduates to work on research projects in a partnership between a business and a university
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (QUB) - sign-up to be notified of KTP opportunities at Queen's
- Meteorology