Graduate roles
Graduate schemes have the most stages and the most competition. The people who get through are rarely the cleverest. They are the ones who prepared for each stage on purpose.
One payment. No subscription. Keep the modules and templates for good.
Includes lifetime access to three drop-ins a week, live Zoom prep sessions, the WhatsApp jobs channel, our yearly in-person event, and your Emplify certificate.
Who this track is for. You are in your final year or already graduated, applying to schemes with tests, assessment centres and final stage panels.
What is inside
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How graduate hiring works
Every stage, in order, and what each one filters for.
- Application, tests, video interview, assessment centre, final stage
- Why most people are cut at the test stage, before a human reads anything
- Rolling recruitment and why the closing date is not the deadline that matters
- Sector timelines: finance, law, consulting, tech, public sector
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Your CV
One page, after three or four years of things you have half forgotten.
- A layout built for schemes that screen automatically
- Degree, modules and results: what to include and what to leave out
- Societies, part time work and volunteering as real evidence
- Action plus result bullet points with numbers wherever you can get them
- Tailoring in ten minutes instead of rewriting every time
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Your cover letter
Specific enough that it could not be sent to anyone else.
- Why this firm, why this scheme, why now
- Researching a company properly: results, news, people, competitors
- Mapping your evidence to the two things they say they want most
- Ending with something concrete rather than a polite sign off
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Online assessments and HireVue
The stage that removes most candidates.
- Numerical, verbal, logical and situational judgement tests, with practice sets
- Game based assessments and what they measure
- Video interviews: thirty seconds to think, two minutes to answer
- Setup, framing and delivery on camera
- How to prepare for the format before you sit one
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Networking on LinkedIn
Insight you cannot get from the careers page.
- Finding graduates in the scheme you are applying to
- A first message that gets a reply
- What to ask on a call, and what to do with the answers
- Turning a conversation into a line in your application
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Interviews and assessment centres
Group exercises, case studies and final stage panels.
- STAR answers built from your own experience
- Competency, motivational, technical and case questions
- Group exercises: contributing without talking over everyone
- Presentations and case studies under time pressure
- Questions to ask a partner or director that are not generic
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Your ideal candidate plan
A one page argument for why they should hire you.
- Pulling the job description apart into what they actually want
- Matching each requirement to one specific thing you have done
- Finding your honest gaps and deciding how to answer them
- Compressing all of it into one clear line you can say out loud
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Make yourself stand out
When everyone has a 2:1 and a society role.
- Projects, certifications and portfolios that prove skill
- Spring weeks, insight days and how to use them a year early
- Speculative applications and internal referrals
- Building a small track record before you need it
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After the interview
The last controllable step.
- A thank you email that adds something they will remember
- Timing and who to send it to on a panel
- Chasing a decision politely when the date passes
- Getting real feedback from a rejection and applying it next time
Ready to start?
£99 paid once. Next you pick your industry, so the examples and templates match what you are applying for.
Not sure this is the right one? Ask us and we will tell you honestly.