Graduates seeking work life balance in public sector

to benefit from extended website

A new range of services has been added to the recently launched www.getalife.org.uk which provides up to the minute information on employment issues for students and graduates interested to work in the public sector.
The latest additions include email alerts direct from employers; employer and job profiles; plus a section dedicated to professional development.

Graduate Prospects chief executive Mike Hill comments: ìThe public sector offers first rate opportunities for graduates who are turning more and more to organisations that can provide an excellent work life balance alongside good job prospects and salaries. Getalife.org.uk offers them a helping hand. The job search and email alerts present immediate employment opportunities alongside facilities to research employers and sectors.î

Employers have been quick to exploit the opportunity to reach graduates via getalife. The NHS, government offices, city, borough and district councils, the Prison Service, Housing Associations, charities, fire and rescue services, the Audit Commission, police forces and the European Commission Office, are among those organisations which have registered vacancies online.

ìAfter just three months in existence, the website is attracting over 12,000 unique users a month. We anticipate that interest in the site will rise considerably as word spreads about the opportunities afforded by the sector which is now on a par alongside blue chip private sector companies as a first choice destination for recent graduates,î said Hill.

Almost a third of all graduates now want to work in the public sector* and it is the fifth largest employer of graduates**, with an impressive average starting salary of 19,900, up 4.7 per cent on last year**. The website, developed by Graduate Prospects, the leading UK provider of graduate careers and recruitment solutions, aims to help those graduates wanting to work in public sector organisations.


* MORI research commissioned by Graduate Prospects in 2003
** AGR Graduate Recruitment Survey



Graduate Prospects is the trading subsidiary of the charity HECSU to which it covenants gifts annually to fund charitable projects for the HE sector. Graduate Prospects works in partnership with the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) to maximise the career opportunities and support available to students and graduates. The Graduate Prospects service includes over 800 different career guides, graduate marketplace reports and the Prospects Series of recruitment and postgraduate course directories and magazines, e-guidance, career planning software, web and online options to enhance the careers advice provided in higher education Careers Services. All information is accessible on Prospects.ac.uk. HECSU is an agency of Universities UK (UUK).