Oxfam makes The Times top 100 graduate employers
 Calling all recent graduates - The Times has once again carried out a survey amongst final year students to find out the top 100 companies graduates would most like to work for, and Oxfam is at number 45 - up 8 from last year.
Perhaps this shows that young people care about helping the world around them, though the only other charity in the top 100 was Cancer Research at number 66. There is also a large number of public sector organisations in the list - the Civil Service and the NHS both feature in the top 10 - again reflecting that young people want to help society whist they work.
Accountancy and banking seem to be amongst the most popular career destinations for students - accountancy firms PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and KPMG are the top three graduate employers overall. One of the more interesting success stories is supermarket Aldi, which came in at number 12 - up from 65 in 2002. But when you consider the company's starting salary for graduates (£38,000) and that they give their employees a brand new Audi A4, perhaps this isn't too surprising!
If you're interested in a career at Oxfam, there are some brilliant voluntary internship schemes here which may lead to employment. These can be short-term or long-term and can mean working on a specific project, for example helping out with festivals or working on a website like Generation Why, or working in a variety of communications and marketing roles. You can find out more about these, as well as specific job opportunities, on the main Oxfam website.
What do you think about The Times top 100? Do students only care about money? In our recent poll, nearly 25 per cent of you said helping society was the most important factor when choosing a job, compared to just 12 per cent who said a decent salary was more important. Do you agree? Add your comments below.
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it's great that Oxfam is in the top 100 - but what about the other charities!?
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October 02, 2006 4:11 PM
i think the list just shows what companies spend the most on their graudate recruitment - and on recruiting students on campus. charities just don't have the same kind of money.
mind you, i know that 1,000s of students still want to work for charities like oxfam or christian aid or whoever - it's incredibly competitive trying to get jobs in the charity sector!
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October 02, 2006 4:14 PM
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