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International students: get the edge back home - and beyond!

Today’s session Introducing GradLink Selling your UK education overseas Advice – from research to interview Next steps

The UK’s award-winning careers site for international students Jobs Employers Go-CV! CV building service In-depth advice sections Blog, events Social Media Case studies Produced for all by

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130+ UK universities

Recognition THE Award Winners 2015!! 5 major award nominations in 3 years!

GradLink supporters -

Testimonials: students/graduates “Absolutely love the idea of GradLink ASEAN! For years many graduates from the UK have been struggling to secure a job in their home country. GradLink will help solve this problem.” Quoc Khai, MBA, Cardiff Metropolitan University "GradLink helped me to find my job! GradLink is definitely the best option for Chinese students in the UK for searching the graduate job market." Wuzhen, Computer Science, Warwick University

Testimonials: universities “GradLink ASEAN is an incredibly useful resource for South East Asian students. The ability to direct our Malaysian students to an up to date source of careers advice and job adverts is a real bonus.” Julia Hilton, Careers Adviser, University of Oxford

Testimonials: employers “GradLink China has provided us with some great candidates. It has proved to be a valuable channel for us to attract high-quality overseas Chinese graduates.” Qin Hua, HR Partner, Bosch China

Testimonials: employers “GradLink is a very useful and user-friendly resource to make international students and leading firms in their home countries visible to each other.” Tom McCrum, Associate Director, Human Resources, KPMG ASEAN

Testimonials: employers “GradLink Africa offers the missing platform for African students to return home after completing their courses abroad.” Mr Isaac Sarpong, Associate Director International Tax Services, EY Ghana

Advice

Employability of UK-educated returners: language “Having a good command of spoken and written English increases employability.” Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan, Executive Director, Malaysian Employers Federation “Even companies in China who prefer to operate in Chinese, are looking for managers who speak both Mandarin and English if they want to expand abroad.“ Manoj Vohra, Asia Director Economist Intelligence Unit, BBC

Employability of UK-educated returnees: skills and learning “72% of Ghanaian employers prefer to employ a graduate educated in the UK, because they are skilled, creative, can manage different situations and adapt easily.” British Council Ghanaian Employer Survey “75% of large employers favour the early specialisation offered by UK study.” Ipsos Survey of 800 Canada and US employers

Selling your UK education overseas Emphasise spoken and written English Sell your university, department and lecturers Sell the UK education approach Demonstrate commercial awareness Show global perspective

research --> interview

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Summary A UK education can be attractive to global employers - but you need to sell it Overseas graduate job markets offer great opportunity – but you need to do your research and be proactive Resources like GradLink are here to help you

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