"Successful Graduate Job Hunting" from The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2024-2025 'book' which is fully digital.
The article is a few pages long but stretches over several pages with info about various employers. I think it's really good. It came to my attention because I work at QMUL and our press team sends round things that colleagues have published in the press.
The advice recommends that students make an appointment with Careers Service at their university in their first year just to get a sense of what support is available from them and also to learn about the different sectors and types of roles, opportunities for shorter placements or year long industrial placements / internships. There's also advice for people who want to focus on studies and then do a gap year and then think about jobs, or people who might have procrastinated a bit (most unis will help their recent graduates too).
Also how to get the most out of careers fairs ('milk rounds' in my day!).
Plus a reminder of the fact that in most cases your degree doesn't forcibly direct you to a career in that topic, it's just evidence that you're reasonably literate and picking up some transferable skills and all that sort of thing, e.g. "John Paul Getty's response when asked why he employed Classics graduates: “Because they sell more oil.” :)
Some undergraduate placements
At time of posting Airbus (they're in the Top 100 list and I like aircraft and satellites!) currently has 148 undergraduate placements in the UK, for placements starting next Summer 2025. For example...
Software Engineering Placement (£22.2k, Portsmouth) - working with satellites and payloads, posted 5 days ago.
Public Affairs Placement x3 (£21.9k, Filton, Broughton or London) - working on policy matters etc (actual role depends on location), posted 12 days ago.
For the above 2 links no closing date is given but it states that the placement may be closed 'early' once sufficient applications are reached.
For the one below the closing date is given as 20 Oct but applicants are advised that the placement might close early.
National Quantum Computing Centre, Public Engagement Industrial Placement (£23.3k, Oxfordshire), for a September 2025 start, posted on 8th September (via this careers portal link). This is funded by the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council, one of several funding councils under the umbrella of UKRI - UK Research and Innovation careers portal]).
Jo