In this blog, we look at an emerging recruitment trend in the UK job market: skills-based hiring. While traditional employers — especially those hiring on entry-level graduate training programmes — are still using the standard hiring process, some employers, like small and medium-sized businesses, start-ups, or creative industry brands, are using the skills-based hiring approach.

Starting fresh on your career journey is a giant leap as a student. The moment you decide to start interacting with the professional world, you are faced with a lot of tasks.

In order to work in the UK, international students require a work visa. This could be a Skilled Worker Visa, which requires sponsorship from a registered employer. The other option is the graduate route visa that was introduced in 2021 and is called the Graduate Immigration Route.

Lateral thinking, in other words, is the ability to use your imagination and creativity to problem solve and is the best way to demonstrate to employer ways you’ve helped your company in an original, experimental or novel way.

When you fill out a job application, you are required to answer some standard questions. Find out how to answer graduate job and application questions, which seek to explore your competencies and motivation for applying.