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Business Placements & General Graduate Recruitment Fair
The Business Placements & Graduate Recruitment Fair attracts students from a diverse range of subjects including:
- Business and Management - The university has been offering dedicated Business and Management degrees for many years and has developed subject expertise in general management as well as specialising in areas such as International Business, Marketing, Accounting & Finance and Hospitality & Tourism. There are approximately 130 students seeking placements and 600 final year students on these courses, all strongly encouraged to attend. Previous students have found graduate positions all over the world as Marketing Coordinators, Management Accountants, Finance Officers, Bar & Restaurant Managers, Travel Consultants and Conference & Events Sales Executives, amongst many other roles.
- Law - Law at Plymouth endorses employability and vocational skills alongside academic development with emphasis on linking with the 'real world'. The key courses are the LLB Law and the BSc (Hons) Law Major and Minor degrees. We also offer postgraduate and professional programmes including the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course . There are approximately 280 students on these courses seeking placements, graduate positions and training contracts.
- Logistics - Shipping and Logistics has a long history at Plymouth. Our Maritime Business course can be combined with Law or Logistics. Many of our graduates are employed in shipping and logistics businesses around the globe and have secured graduate positions as Chartered Surveyors, Navigation Officers and Business Analysts. There are approximately 80 students on these courses who will be strongly encouraged to attend.
In the last few years graduates have gained employment with Ernst & Young, Babcock Marine, IBM, Faber Maunsell and JP Morgan amongst others.
View footage of 2009 fair.
The fee for attending the fair includes exhibition space in the state of the art Roland Levinsky Building , refreshments, packed lunches, assistance from students and staff throughout the day and advertising via the careers website and the event brochure.
Fees for 2010/11 are as follows:
| Fee |
Type of organisation |
| £0 |
Voluntary (registered charities and not-for-profit private sector) |
| £75 + VAT |
Unions / Associations / Professional Bodies |
| £100 + VAT |
Local Government (such as LEAs, PCTs) |
| £300 + VAT |
Private Sector & Other (this includes recruitment agencies, central government departments, executive agencies, other HEIs and non-departmental public bodies) |
Discount - any organisation will be able to benefit from attending more than 1 event with a 25% reduction in event charges for the second and all subsequent fair bookings.
About the UoP and its graduates
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The University of Plymouth offers a diverse range of innovative course programmes, both vocational and academic, which provide our graduates with a world class standard of skills.
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There are currently more than 30,000 students studying at the University of Plymouth and its partner colleges spread across the whole of the South West. With the help of these colleges, we are able to widen participation and provide employers with the region’s most talented graduates.
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The University has an excellent track record of providing outstanding levels in its teaching and enterprise activities, scoring very well across all disciplines, and gaining top 20 ratings for subjects including architecture, education and earth and marine sciences.
- The University is a forward thinking institution, providing a high level of investment and development in new facilities, which led us to emerge as the top modern University in the UK in the 2007 Guardian league tables, and has led to a further £33 million in funding over the next five years.
- The RAE 2008 saw Plymouth named as a top 50 research University and the 'most improved' with 80% of its research judged as being of international repute, meaning both our undergraduate and postgraduate students can be proud to be taught by, and work alongside world-class experts.
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