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Employer profiles and job opportunities for international students

Profiles of employers that recruit International Students:

Reckitt Benckiser (RB)

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) is a global fast moving consumer goods company with headquarters in Slough, UK. RB produces such brands as Finish, Vanish, Durex, Dettol, Lysol, Harpic, Mortein amongst others. RB operates in more than 60 countries worldwide, while the company’s brands are sold in almost 200 countries, selling over 15 million products per day.

Current International Opportunities:

On the international scene, RB offers graduate programs in the different parts of the world in which the company operates. Specifically, current opportunities exist in the Africa and Middle East region, i.e. Pakistan, South Africa, the Middle East (UAE) and Nigeria. Different programs have different timelines but most begin around June and July, so applications are best submitted at the beginning of the year. All graduate programs last for 12 months.

For more information on how to apply for any of these opportunities, please visit http://www.rb.com/careers/africa-middle-east

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FDM - Group

We are looking for 50 graduates to work in Singapore this year!

FDM are seeking a large number of graduates for a career in finance and IT, working with some of the world’s largest investment banks in the fast-growing economy of Asia!

Leading IT graduate employer, FDM Group, is offering Malaysian and Singaporean graduates a fantastic opportunity to launch a career in IT in Singapore, one of the worlds top 5 financial centres, with a window of opportunity to the rest of Asia.

This exciting graduate programme will enable you to train in London to become an industry-certified IT and Business Consultant, before travelling to Singapore to work for a minimum of two years as an FDM Consultant. FDM will pay for all technical training you receive in our award-winning Academy in London, then help in your transition and travel to the tropical climate of Singapore. This training is invaluable and will guarantee you a role in one of the leading cities in Asia with one of our prestigious investment banking clients.

To apply for this unique opportunity, candidates must:

  • Have a degree in either IT, Maths, Physics, Finance, Engineering or Business/Management
  • Speak fluent English, Mandarin would be advantageous
  • Be confident, professional and an excellent communicator
  • Be enthusiastic with the drive and ambition to work in IT
  • Be flexible and willing to relocate

This role is ideal for a graduate looking to break into the IT sector in a challenging technical role, which has great prospects for career progression in an exciting region of the world with a fast-paced business culture and growing economy.

Interviews have already begun so candidates should send their CV to janet.law@fdmgroup.com as soon as possible

FDM Group is a global IT services provider and the UK’s leading IT graduate employer. FDM is the 11th fastest growing company in Europe and was voted 9th in the top 50 companies for graduates to work for in 2011. Please visit www.fdmacademy.com for further information.

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BG Group

BG Group is a leading player in the global energy market, with operations in more than 25 countries over five continents. While the company’s headquarters are in the UK, over 60% of the talented professionals who make up the BG team are located outside the UK.

Current opportunities for International students:

BG Group offers an International Graduate Development Programme (IGDP) which is a structured two year programme and guarantees at least one international placement within the first year. Employment areas on the IGDP include Business Analysis, Commercial, Engineering and Operations, and Petroleum Engineering among others.

Additionally, local vacancies may arise in other countries such as Brazil, India, Trinidad & Tobago among others.

For further information on vacancies and how to apply, please visit http://www.bg-group.com/Careers/graduates/programme/ourprogrammes/Pages/
OurProgrammes.aspx

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Gateley

Gateley is a full service national law firm that promotes the commercial interests of companies, individuals and orgranisations. Trading as Gateley in England and HBJ Gateley in Scotland, Gateley also have an office in Dubai.

Current opportunities for International students:

With an office in Dubai, international positions exist with Gateley. Training contracts and summer vacation placements also exist. For more information on how to apply, please visit http://www.gateleyuk.com/careers/graduates

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is one of leading international law firms, providing business law advice of the highest quality throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. With over 2,500 lawyers in 27 key business centres around the world, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer provide a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. In addition, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the official legal services provider to the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

Current opportunities for International students:

With 27 offices located in 15 different countries around the world, international opportunities exist with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. For further information on how to apply, please visit http://careers.freshfields.com/global-careers.aspx

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Hogan Lovells

Following the merger of Lovells with American firm Hogan & Hartson the new Hogan Lovells became a top ten global legal services provider both in terms of number of lawyers and revenue. With over 40 offices in four continents, their work cuts across a wide range of industrial sectors.

Current opportunities for International students:

With 40 offices across 4 continents, opportunities exist in different parts of the world. For more information, see our careers and graduate careers pages

Closing dates - 30 March 2012 and 31 July 2012 depending on the programme.

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KPMG

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services with offices in 150 countries worldwide and 138,000 outstanding professionals working together.

Current opportunities for International students:

KPMG in the UK positively welcomes international applications for their graduate training scheme. The deadline for applicants for programmes starting in 2012 requiring a work permit is on or around the 30th April 2012. Apply online.

Closing date: 30 April 2012

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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register (LR) work with operators and infrastructure owners across the world to help them achieve safe, efficient and sustainable railways. LR aspires to deliver the highest possible levels of service, technical and relationship excellence for clients, primarily through two distinct service areas: independent assurance and expert advice.

Current opportunities for International students:

Currently running China 2012 Graduate Scheme - Transportation To apply, email: transportation.recruitment@lr.org

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Norton Rose

Norton Rose Group is a leading international legal practice. They offer full business law service to many of the world's pre-eminent financial institutions and corporations from 40 offices based in 5 continents.

Current opportunities for International students:

Norton Rose appoints 344 trainees each year throughout its global practice. For further information, and to apply please visit our website

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Bloomberg

Bloomberg is the leading global provider of financial market information. They connect influential decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. With over 13,000 employees in 185 locations, they deliver business and financial information, news and insight around the world.

Current opportunities for International students:

Summer internships and entry-level positions are available in the following areas

  • Bloomberg News
  • Analytics
  • Global Data
  • Research and Development

For further information on these opportunities, visit our website

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Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate roles, internships and placements

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Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy and nuclear.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate programmes and internships  are being offered by Rolls Royce.

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Roche

For more than 110 years Roche has played a pioneering role in healthcare. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer, transplantation, and active in other major therapeutic areas with a high medical need such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, virology, metabolic disorders and diseases of the central nervous system.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduates:

With its industry leadership and global reach, Roche is among the top employers worldwide. They currently have over 80,000 people in 150 countries, meaning that you have access to a variety of global job and career opportunities. For more information, visit

Internships:

Internship opportunities are available to students from these disciplines:

  • Engineering
  • Natural Sciences
  • Business Studies
  • Computer Science

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Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, with 152,000 staff across 140 countries.

Current opportunities for International students:

Several graduate opportunities and internship and industrial placement opportunities are available.

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PwC

PwC is a Chartered Accountancy, Tax & Management Consultancy.  With about 15,000 partners and staff in offices around the UK they are able to draw on the knowledge and skills of their people in the UK and of others in the global network of firms.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate opportunities - There are 20 different routes across 6 key business areas: Assurance, Consulting, Tax, Financial Advisory, Actuarial and PwC Legal LLP.

International career options available in China, Ireland, Channel Islands and other countries in the world

For penultimate and final year undergraduates, six-week summer internships are available

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Chevron

Chevron has major operations in the world's most important oil and gas regions.

In the United Kingdom, Chevron has interests in 10 offshore producing fields. They operate the Alba, Captain, Erskine and Strathspey fields and are a joint operator of the Britannia Field. The company also has interests in five non-operated fields: Brodgar, Callanish, Clair, Elgin/Franklin and Jade.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate opportunities:

Chevron Upstream Europe (based in Aberdeen) provides graduate opportunities in the areas of drilling and completions engineering, subsea engineering, process engineering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, geology and geophysics.

Internships:

U.K. internships are available for current university students

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BT

BT is a major telecoms and IT company.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate opportunities are available across the following areas:

  • HR
  • Marketing
  • Procurement
  • Legal
  • Sales
  • Business Management
  • Contact Sales
  • Technology

Summer internships and industrial internships are available in the following areas

  • Technological
  • HR
  • Marketing
  • Business Management

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Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group was formed at the beginning of 2009 (comprised of brands such as Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Scottish Widows and Bank of Scotland).

Lloyds Banking Group is a Times 100 Top Graduate Employer and is the official Banking and Insurance partner of the London 2012 Olympics

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate schemes, referred to as '360' of Opportunity, and about 2-3 years in length are available. These opportunities available are within:

  • General Management
  • Corporate Banking
  • Wholesale Markets, Treasury & Trading
  • Finance
  • Business Technology
  • Human Resources

10-week summer internships are also available for undergraduates

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Tesco

Tesco is one of the world's largest retailers. They operate in 14 countries across the globe, employ over 470,000 employees and have over 4,000 stores worldwide. The International Business arm is a major element of their future growth.

Current opportunities for International students:

There are 19 programmes for graduates, including the Fast-Track China Programme. The Fast-Track China Programme includes a 6-9 month placement in the UK.

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Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, and together with NatWest and Ulster Bank provides branch banking facilities throughout the British Isles

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduates:

Graduates can choose from the Global Banking & Markets Investment Banking programme or the RBS Leadership & Professional Programmes.

Internships:

Both Easter and Summer internship positions are available.

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Tata Steel

Tata Steel is the second largest steel producer in Europe with a well diversified presence across the continent. Tata Steel is one of the world's top ten steel producers. The combined group has an aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 28 million tonnes and approximately 80,000 employees across four continents.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate programmes are available in different areas, which include but are not limited to the following

  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Research, Development & Technology
  • Technical Consultancy
  • Human Resources

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Deloitte

Deloitte is a professional services firm providing audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services to selected clients.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduates:

The Deloitte Global Universities Programme (GUP) provides a unique opportunity for international students to launch their career in their home country, or a country of interest where they are eligible to work and are fluent in the local language.

Internships:

7-week summer internships and 6 or 12-month industrial placements are available.

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Beiersdorf AG

Beiersdorf AG is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. With more than 150 affiliates worldwide, Beiersdorf have a global presence.

Current opportunities for International students:

Beiersdorf currently run an 18-month graduate programme called 'Beyond Borders.' This includes a five to six-month overseas placement.

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Standard Bank (Also known as Stanbic Bank)

Over 148 years, Standard Bank has grown into one of Africa's largest and most successful banking groups. With headquarters in Johannesburg and a presence all over the world, the bank continues to play a central role in the South African financial sector, in what is today a successful developing economy.

Standard Bank now has over 6,500 points of representation, including branches and offices in Africa and employs more than 50,000 people worldwide, of which over 34,000 are in South Africa.

Standard Bank's three main business areas are Personal and Business Banking (PBB), Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), and Wealth. Graduate programmes are currently available in both PBB and CIB, as well as in some core group support teams.

Current opportunities for International students:

Standard Bank run a number of challenging and stimulating graduate programmes in specific business areas, in Johannesburg, London, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.

Please note that all of the programmes based in Johannesburg are only open to South African citizens.

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Ogilvy & Mather

In 1948, Daniel Ogilvy founded the agency that would become Ogilvy & Mather. Starting with no clients and a staff of two, he built the company into one of the eight largest advertising networks in the world. Today, Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency with more than 450 offices in 169 cities all over the world.

Current opportunities for International students:

In the UK, Ogilvy & Mather have offices located in London and Oxford. Graduates are usually recruited as Fellows into 3 main areas of business namely, account management, account planning and creative. However, the recruitment process and roles in other countries may be different from those in the UK.

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Balfour Beatty Plc

Balfour Beatty is a world-class infrastructure services business operating across the infrastructure lifecycle, with leading positions in major markets. In over 80 countries, in diverse markets and economies, Balfour Beatty provides the assets societies need to function, develop and thrive.

Current opportunities for International students:

Opportunities exist to join Balfour Beatty in the UK on one of their broad graduate schemes. However, with offices in over 80 countries all over the world, opportunities may also exist for international students to join Balfour Beatty's subsidiaries in their country of origin.

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IBM

IBM is a multinational technology and consulting corporation with headquarters in New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

IBM employs more than 425,000 people working in over 200 countries.

Current opportunities for International students:

Graduate opportunities exist across different roles in IBM in the UK. However, with offices in different countries all over the world, international opportunities also exist with IBM.

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Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse is a multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with operations in more than 50 countries. Credit Suisse works in three main business areas: private banking, investment banking, asset banking, shared services and information technology.

Current opportunities for International students:

With offices in over 50 countries all over the world, opportunities may exist for international students to join Credit Suisse in their country of origin.

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Christian Dior

Christian Dior is a French company which owns the high-fashion clothing producer and retailer Christian Dior Couture. Dior operate about 160 boutiques worldwide with plans to open more in the future.

Current opportunities for International students:

Opportunities currently exist with Christian Dior for Chinese-speaking graduates to take up training in one of Christian Dior's London stores for between 6 and 12 months during their last year of study or their first year of graduation. Upon graduation/completion of the training programme, the student will be expected to go to China to take up a managerial position in retail.

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Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover is one global business with two key lines (Jaguar and Land Rover (including Range Rover)). It is a part of Tata motors, India's largest automobile company. All its engineering and manufacturing are done in the UK (Halewood, Castle Bromwich, Solihull, Gaydon, Whitley).

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International Recruitment Agencies

Global Career Company

Global Career Company (GCC) is an international recruitment consultancy that specialises in recruiting internationally-based candidates from Africa, MENA, Asia Pacific and Central & Eastern Europe back into jobs within their home countries.

GCC's clientele include but are not limited to Airtel, Barclays, BG Group, Heineken, Lafarge, Schlumberger, Shell and Vodaphone.

Current opportunities for International students:

GCC runs Careers Summits in different cities in the world targeted towards candidates from Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Central & Eastern Europe.

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Asian-Jobs.com

Asian-Jobs.com was founded by a Human Resources professional in 2005 in Los Angeles, California and is the career site for employers who want to reach bilinguals who speak English and Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese, Mandarin, Hindi and many other Asian dialects.

Registration and applying for jobs is totally free. Additionally, CVs can be posted onto the website and jobseekers have the opportunity of seeing how many times a company has viewed their CV profile.

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Hispanic-Jobs.com

Similar to Asia-Jobs.com, Hispanic-Jobs.com was founded by a Human Resources professional in 2004 and is the career site for employers who want to reach bilingual/Spanish-speaking professionals.

Registration and applying for jobs is totally free. Additionally, CVs can be posted onto the website and jobseekers have the opportunity of seeing how many times a company has viewed their CV profile.

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Careers International (formerly Careers in Europe)

Careers International is Europe's leading international recruitment event company and was set up as Careers in Europe in 2004 by Stephane Wajskop, who previously founded the global recruitment specialists, EMDS Group.

Careers International act a link between high potential candidates and high quality global companies. Careers International target top graduates and early career professionals with a maximum of seven years working experience.

In the past, Careers International has recruited for organizations such as Audi, Nestle, Veolia Environment, EDF Energy, MasterCard, DSM, Du Pont, Renault etc.

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Elite International Careers

Elite specialises in bringing together highly educated and highly skilled emerging market nationals from around the world with leading companies operating in key emerging markets in Africa, The Middle East and Latin America.

Elite International Careers frequently run recruitment summits which are typically two-day events during which approximately 50 companies meet, talk and interview approximately 500 hand-picked candidates.

Companies who Elite International Careers have recruited for in the past include AstraZeneca, Chevron, Diageo, Eni, GE etc.

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