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Clearly not content with a virtual monopoly over internet search engines (anyone remember Lycos?!), since 2004 those loveable techno-rogues over at Google have been devilishly engineering their full-scale assault on your lives through the increasingly essential Gmail (formerly Googlemail) vehicle. Cheerfully for us laymen, when Google set their mind to something, they usually make it worth our while, and this is no exception. Indeed, the last three places I’ve interned at – one national publication, one established media company and one web-journalism start-up – have asked immediately if I were the proud owner of a Gmail account. I wasn’t? Then sign up, sonny boy, cos you’ll need it. Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to Web Watch edition number one! We’ll be running a regular short article where we scour the goliath that is the Internet for interesting, quirky and useful links for your entertainment and enlightenment. Read the rest of this entry »

A quick search in Google for “graduate jobs” produces a list of 28,200,200 results. The Internet is a jungle. Where do you start? Usually the non-scientific process of whittling down the many options presented by Google involves avoiding any link that looks remotely freaky.

Examples of web addresses that often, and sometimes illogically, set off the panic button include addresses with dashes (e.g. www.weird-address.com), web addresses that end in “.net”, or when you do finally muster up courage to click on a UFL (Unidentified Freaky Link), the dreaded all-black website of death will get you hitting that back button like your life depended on it.

There is hope. We’ve compiled a list of our top 5 graduate recruitment job websites (i.e. fulltime graduate roles) for you to safely explore. Be sure to bookmark these websites and keep an eye on those deadlines!

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