How I gained permanent work in the UK as a Chinese Graduate

How I gained permanent work in the UK as a Chinese Graduate

woman walking through market By Amily Xu, Business School, MSc International Tourism, Management and Marketing graduate, Amily Xu, reflects on her experience of studying and working in the UK and recently gaining indefinite leave to remain here.   When I graduated, there was no graduate visa which meant I had just 6 months to find a visa sponsored job. When I joined the course, I discovered there was an integrated career development programme which provided weekly timetabled careers session to increase my employability skills. These included sessions on CV writing, personal branding using LinkedIn and a range of other careers topics. I was introduced to the Business School Postgraduate Careers team and all the support and resources they provide. I was later supported on a one-to-one basis by Teresa, one of the Careers Consultants teaching the programme. The weekly sessions provided the tools I needed to evaluate and understand myself as well as practical employability skills like CV writing and interview preparation and practice. I...
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Entry-level jobs support, AI bootcamps and tech training as government supports young people into the jobs of the future

Entry-level jobs support, AI bootcamps and tech training as government supports young people into the jobs of the future

More support to get young people into their first jobs through launch of new partnership to reshape entry-level jobs in sectors exposed to AI 400,000 young people across the most disadvantaged schools in the UK will get AI and tech training to help them into further education, training and employment after school New AI bootcamps scheme to be rolled out nationwide in England starting with a pilot in the North West this summer Young people entering the job market will be better supported into their first roles thanks to a new partnership between government, industry and trade unions to look at how AI is impacting entry level roles. The Early Careers Jobs Alliance will bring together government, employers, trade unions and young people, co-chaired by Prospect’s General Secretary Mike Clancy and the government’s AI Champion for the Digital and Technologies sector, Katie Gallagher OBE. With the aim of supporting people to get into the workplace, learn on the job...
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I was applying for hundreds of jobs – this tip helped me get one

I was applying for hundreds of jobs – this tip helped me get one

Theresa Blair, 24, from Birmingham, graduated from Aston University in 2025 with a pharmacy masters.But following a project management placement she decided this was the career path she wanted to pursue.She spent eight months sending off hundreds of job applications often not hearing back."I realised I was sending very generic CVs to recruiters and that was making it harder to stand out from other applicants," she says.She began tailoring her CV to suit every job, reading into each company's values and referencing them in her applications. "I've learnt that you should state the skills you've gained because of doing certain roles and explain how that makes you a suitable candidate," she says.She applied for fewer jobs but spent more time on each one. "The less generic the better," she says.Theresa got a job working full time in a bank customer service call centre. Now she works as a project manager commuting three days a week to London."It's two to three...
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Have you used the UK government’s new jobs AI tool? We would like to hear from you | Work & careers

Have you used the UK government’s new jobs AI tool? We would like to hear from you | Work & careers

Keir Starmer has announced a new AI work assistant tool dubbed a “job centre in your pocket” to help job seekers get into work.In a speech at the start of London Tech Week, the prime minister said the new AI job tool will “help those out of work find the right jobs, create their CVs and get back into work”.The 24/7 AI assistant will be trialled for three months online.We would like to hear from young people who have used this new tool. How did you find it? Did it help in your efforts to find work?Share your experiencePlease get in touch by using the form below or by messaging us. We will be in touch before we take your submission further. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we...
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LinkedIn and government join forces to help jobseekers build their careers

LinkedIn and government join forces to help jobseekers build their careers

Landmark partnership between LinkedIn and the Government reflects that the ‘job for life’ has given way to career mobility. Anonymised data from LinkedIn’s pool of 40 million UK accounts will help the DWP have the best possible data within the Jobs and Careers Service.  This comes as government brings forward the biggest employment reforms in a generation with a particular focus on helping young people into work.    Thousands of jobseekers could be supported into a new career as the government joins forces with LinkedIn to bolster careers advice.  It will see timely anonymised data on jobs, skills, hiring and workforce movement shared with Skills England from LinkedIn’s network of 40 million UK accounts, giving the government a new way of viewing the labour market.  In the future this could be used by the new Jobs and Careers...
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UK jobs data keeps questioning the need for rate hikes | snaps

UK jobs data keeps questioning the need for rate hikes | snaps

On the face of it, the latest UK jobs report doesn’t look so bad. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.9%. Payrolled employment rose after three consecutive monthly declines (it increased by a marginal 2,000 workers). Average weekly earnings growth was higher than expected. But the details still look dovish for the Bank of England. And the report is another reminder that the case for higher rates is far from clear-cut. Take those payroll numbers. April’s atrocious 100,000 fall in employment has been cut in half, after revisions. That’s not a surprise; the latest reading is always prone to change – and usually in an upwards direction. But the newly revised April figure, showing a 53k drop in workers, is still pretty bad. The better May figure should be read in that context – and if you strip out government, private sector payrolls still fell. What’s more, April’s upgrade doesn’t appear to have lifted the consumer-facing industries which have been at the eye...
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Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK

Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK

9. Data sources and quality Data source and collectionThe data for this release come from HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC's) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) system. They cover the whole population rather than a sample of people or companies, and they will allow for more detailed estimates of the population. More information on the quality of the data and the steps we take to quality assure it can be found in our Quality assurance of administrative used in earnings and employment from PAYE RTI methodology.Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of...
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Skills warning as UK vacancies fall

Skills warning as UK vacancies fall

Young People in Print and Packaging has warned that a decline in UK job vacancies could worsen the print and packaging sector's long-term skills shortage, following the release of an ONS labor market overview in June 2026 showing vacancies at their lowest level since 2021. The organization said the data masks deeper structural problems for the industry, with manufacturing businesses and SMEs recording the sharpest falls in vacancy numbers. It warned that reduced hiring activity risks accelerating skills gaps in a sector already facing an aging workforce pipeline. The ONS report follows the UK government's Young People and Work Review, which found that around one million 16 to 24-year-olds are not in employment, education or training. 'This report should be a warning shot for the industry,' said Jo Stephenson, board member of Young People in Print and Packaging. 'We are shutting the door on the next generation of talent at the exact moment when we should be welcoming them through it. Our industry...
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China’s jobs crunch is eroding the value of UK master’s degrees

Some Chinese students and families have become increasingly sceptical about the value of a UK master’s degree. Compared with programmes in the US, Australia and Canada, UK master’s courses are typically completed in just one year, leading some to question whether there is sufficient time for teaching, research and the development of deeper subject knowledge. In addition, relatively accessible entry requirements for some programmes have raised concerns among Chinese families and employers about the quality and prestige of certain UK master’s degrees. UK universities’ reliance on income from international students is well known – and around one-fifth of the total revenue from that source is accounted for by students from China. Unsurprisingly, then, their steep decline is causing a lot of concern – particularly given increasing visa rejection rates from other major source countries. In a 2025 survey by the British Universities International Liaison Association, 80 per cent of institutions reported a decline in postgraduate applications from China, with an average drop...
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