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Accepting and Rejecting Offers

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Negotiating Remuneration

There are a number of ways in which graduates can estimate their worth, from the degree they hold to the skills they may have picked up b

Negotiating a Better Package for Your New Job

It takes a lot of courage to negotiate money matters with your recruiters, but with enough research and practise, you should be able to engage in an informed discussion to settle on your financial worth.

Juggling Multiple Job Offers Expertly

Your performance in the recruitment process impressed more than one graduate employer, and now everyone wants you! Now, how do you manage such a situation?

Jargon Buster: Salary, Benefits and Incentives

Sabbaticals, golden hello, pension plan? What are all these? Be confused no longer!

Applications and CVs

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How to Write Effective Cover Letters

If an employer requests a resume, they’ll normally want a cover letter too. Take this opportunity to showcase your skills and enthusiasm – it can make a big difference to the success of your job application!

8 Tips to Write an Effective Email Job Application

While you can jazz up your resume with an eye-catchy design and personalised font, an email job application relies solely on the content to catch the recruiter’s eye.

What is an Applicant Tracking System (and How to Beat It)

As the hiring process gets increasingly automated, you’ll want to ensure your application doesn’t get filtered out by a programme before it actually reaches human hands!

A Guide to FDM’s Recruitment Process

What does FDM’s recruitment process involve? Here’s a handy guide with tips to help you get one step closer to your dream job!

Assessment Centres

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Tips for Written Exercises at Assessment Centres

Prepare for this boring – but essential – part of the interview process.

How to Succeed at Assessment Centres

You won’t be "seen" in the board room, and you won’t be the victim of an on-screen sacking. So don’t feel obliged to behave like you’re taking part in reality TV.

Handling Social Etiquette at Graduate Assessment Centres

Surviving assessment centres isn’t just about succeeding in their tests and exercises – you should also know how to casually communicate with recruiters during break time!

Trial by Simulation

Recruiters want to know how their future employees will juggle tasks and deal with tricky situations, so some of them test potential staff by using in-tray exercises and case studies that simulate working life.

First Job

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Looking beyond your paycheque

It’s easy to get to know what a company expects from you – you have a rough guide in the form of the job posting you’ve read, and you’ll

Figuring Out the Right Career for You

Before taking the leap into the workforce, think about where you envision yourself to be in both the long- and short-term.

Adulting: Beginning a New Chapter

Transitioning from school life to the working world may not be easy, but you don’t have to be a nervous wreck about it. Embrace the thrill of adulting, and it can be a very rewarding and hopeful experience!

Do’s and Don’ts for Your First Week at Your New Job

Unfortunately, our first jobs don’t come with guidebooks – how much easier it would be to handle work-related matters if it did! We don’t have a full guidebook for it, but we do have some tips for you for your first week on the job.

Internships and Work Experience

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Entering the Marketing Field with No Experience

It’s not unusual to pursue a career unrelated to your area of academic study or previous work experience in this day and age. So read on if you need tips in this area!

Why you should Intern in the Environmental Field

Environmental issues, such as air pollution and climate change which pose as threats to our well-being, are changing the ways companies go about with business. Here is why you should jump on the bandwagon to take on an internship in this field.

Preparing for a public sector internship

Want to intern with a government agency? Here are some tips for making your applications.

Reasons to Intern with a NGO

Want to apply your skills to a worthy cause and make a valuable contribution to society? Here are some incentives to take on a NGO internship which taps on your professional strengths.

Interview Tips and Techniques

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An Introvert’s Guide to Self-Promotion in Interviews

Going for a job interview requires a bit of self-promotion, which isn’t a natural behaviour for everyone – especially for introverts – but it’s not an impossible task. Here is how you can learn to get past your inhibitions and be assertive in a way that works for you.

Our Top Tips to Ace an FDM Telephone Interview

As the job market becomes increasingly competitive and work styles give way to more agile working practices, many companies now conduct phone interviews as part of their recruitment process. We’re here to shed some light on what candidates can expect during an FDM graduate programme telephone interview with one of our recruiters.

Dealing with Live Video Interviews

It goes without saying that the Novel Coronavirus outbreak has changed many of the ways we interact with other people this year.

How to Prepare for Strengths-Based Interviews

Organisations use strengths-based interviews to find out what candidates love to do and do well. Find out how you can ace one with FDM Group.

Planning Your Job Search

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Five Reasons Why You’re Having Trouble Landing a Job

So you’re graduating soon and haven’t received any calls for a job interview, much less landed an offer. Despite going online to job portals every day and applying to any and all relevant job postings, you haven’t received any indication that anyone is thinking of hiring you. You’re becoming anxious and worried that you may be the only one in your cohort who will be unemployed. What should you do now?

4 Job-Search Tips for When You’re Still in School

Many go to school with the singular focus of getting a good GPA, but the time to prepare for your job-search should start from your first day of university.

Surviving the Job Search Process

Before starting your job search, it’s important to prepare for the possibility that it may drag on longer than you expect. Keep in mind that there is no hard-and-fast rule when it comes to hiring processes, so you need to exercise some patience and not feel beaten down when you don’t hear a response after a few days.

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