
Top 100 most popular jobs of 2020
Here it is! The Top-100 most popular jobs of 2020 among students and young professionals on Magnet.me. Of the 73,000

Top 100 most popular jobs of 2020
Here it is! The Top-100 most popular jobs of 2020 among students and young professionals on Magnet.me. Of the 73,000

The career lessons 2020 has taught us
How do you navigate your career during a pandemic that has impacted and altered everything we knew about job hunting

How to achieve career success as a student in 2021
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Do you want an internship in an international FMCG company?
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How to work on your career in times of Corona
The corona crisis is affecting all aspects of society and unfortunately, this might also have an effect on your job

What is the added value of a talent pool?
A commonly used technique in recruiting is to create a talent pool of interesting candidates. To apprehend the benefits of

Zoom backgrounds for your next job interview
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Find your perfect job or internship on Magnet.me

Make the most out of your home office: 14 essential tips
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Work on your career during the corona-crisis with these 6 tips
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How to set up an e-house day
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Corporate Rebels: “Don’t accept the misery of bad company culture. Make work more fun”
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Deloitte’s demand for diversity
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CEO of Plugify: “A career you love is made of passion combined with action”
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Big 4 Recruiter: “Convince them you’re it”
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Magnet.me is now also available for young professionals
In 2012, we started with Magnet.me because we found the process of finding an internship or job for students was

Let’s get visual: how to bridge the gap between applicant expectations and office reality
Visual representation is everything, especially online. Nobody’s clicking on YouTube videos without seeing a thumbnail. Nobody’s booking a room on

11 cooking workshops in Utrecht
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8 best affordable gyms for students in Utrecht
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9 pancake places in Utrecht
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The best time of the day to drink coffee as a student
When to drink coffee? As students that is a question best answered in the morning a few minutes before the

Best tips to stay fit and healthy at uni
One thing most university students ask themselves during term time is usually: “How on earth do I manage to stay

The 5 best student bars in Eindhoven
If people in Eindhoven are known for anything, it is that they know how to party. An example? The yearly

35 useful websites and tools for students in 2020
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How NOT to revise
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Best places for a sunny study break in London
It’s that time of year again – libraries are packed, your stress levels are on the increase and almost at

Top 5 day trips from London
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Study techniques for university students
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Dutch bank Rabobank finances growth of scale-up Magnet.me
Rotterdam, July 4th 2019 – Dutch bank Rabobank has provided additional financing to support the further growth of the Rotterdam

The 5 best study places in Bristol
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The 5 best study places in Birmingham
Here at Magnet.me, we love finding students the best study places in their university city, to extend their university experience

The 5 best study places in Leeds
The study environment students require is a funny thing. It needs to be quiet, but not too much. Filled with

The 5 best study places in Cambridge
Studying at Cambridge, you understand that you learn to like coffee. As an innocent fresher you despised it, but after

The 5 best study places in Brighton
When at university, studying is the last thing any student wants to do. All students signed up for university to

The 5 best study places in Oxford
Ah, the library. A place you go for studying, reading and talking below a normal volume. Safe to say most

The 5 best study places in Sheffield
Studying in a cafe is a great way to take a break from the university library when you start to

The 5 best study places in Newcastle
Finding the best study places in Newcastle around exam season is critical to getting away from all distractions and getting

The 5 best study places in Manchester
Finding a good study space in Manchester these days is becoming more and more popular. With growing university sizes the

The 5 best study places in Liverpool
Needless to say as a student in Liverpool, you’ll be hitting the books a fair bit. Therefore, knowing the best

The 5 best study places in London
As one of the largest student cities in the UK, and the world, it is usually pretty busy around exam

Most ‘liked’ graduate jobs of 2018
Magnet.me, the UK’s largest student careers site, announces the top 50 popular graduate jobs of 2018. They analysed the popularity

This is the list of top 50 most ‘liked’ graduate jobs in the UK
The results are in! Out of more than 13,000 graduate jobs on Magnet.me in 2018 we looked at how many

Brexit and graduate job hunt: What will the effect be?
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The top 10 most popular summer internships in 2019 in the Netherlands
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5 Career tips for new grads
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The life of an intern at Magnet.me
Before I started my internship at Magnet.me, I thought interning meant doing coffee runs, filing endless amounts of what seems

These are the top 25 most popular jobs among TU Delft students
As a student at TU Delft, it cannot have escaped your notice that technically educated students are in high demand

These are the top 25 most popular jobs among Imperial College students
The results have been counted and verified and we can confirm the top 25 most popular jobs among Imperial College

These are 25 most popular jobs among Leiden University students
As a student at Leiden University, you are busy with a lot of things: exam stress, deadlines and social events

9 most affordable lunch places in Leiden for students
Honestly, when you are a student, you are ALWAYS on a budget. And here at Magnet.me we get that (that

The 5 best study places in Leiden
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The 5 best study places in Delft
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Stuart Edelenbos ♥ Semmtech
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7 most affordable lunch places in Rotterdam
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These are the 25 most popular jobs among LSE students
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Imperial College Campus Manager
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2018: Our year in numbers
2018 has been everything, except boring. Tokyo saw a robot named Michihito Matsuda run for mayor. While it still lost,

Emily Gowers ♥ Eden McCallum
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How to quit your job
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How to study effectively for an exam (when you’re starting the night before)
You have heard it all before right? Sleep 8 hours per night, start 6 weeks in advance and eat your

“I haven’t done an internship… Do I stand a chance of getting a grad job?”
Internships can be a great way to get more work experience. The only problem? Interesting, paid opportunities can sometimes feel

Why you should do an internship in Amsterdam
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What are the privileges of being a student at Erasmus University?
Erasmus University is not only located in the most amazing city of the Netherlands – Rotterdam (sorry Amsterdam) but also

Pippa Kirby ♥ Thomson Reuters
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What to do if you hate your job
Hating your job is both the easiest thing and the hardest thing to do. You spend basically your whole life

7 things to do on Halloween when you’re in college
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The four stages of calling in sick to work
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5 tips on how to land a job if you’ve studied at Erasmus University
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5 tips to make your Instagram appeal to employers
Have you ever wondered what’s the one thing that employers do first when your name pops up on their radar?

5 reasons why a good work-life balance is so important
A good work-life balance, what even is that? Everyone desires a different work-life balance. Some people live to work and

The 5 best places to study in Rotterdam
What are the best places to study in Rotterdam? Rotterdam is known for its “niet lullen maar poetsen” (don’t bullshit,

40 free useful apps for students 2019
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Nora Bjornstad 🖤 Travers Smith
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Theo Robson 🖤 MVF Global
Theo Robson – Economics and Politics (BA), from University of Essex. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do

Jason Woo 🖤 AlphaSights
Jason Woo – Political Science and International Relations Major from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Development Administration and

Will Windridge 🖤 The Inner Circle
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Juhi Chikhlia 🖤 Royal Bank of Canada
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4 tips to help you keep your chill while relocating for an internship!
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2017: Our year in numbers
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5 tips to make law school more bearable
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Suit up. Here’s the next step in your law career
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Work in startups – Let us find you your Startup
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How we became the UK’s biggest student and graduate careers site
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Career in FMCG – Why you should seriously consider it
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Let’s find you your graduate job in investment banking
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Never too old for prom night
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4 myths about graduate career exploration
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Our take on success
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5 reasons why traditional graduate recruitment channels are not working (anymore)
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How to create an awesome Magnet.me profile
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2016: Our year in numbers
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5 study tips to rock your exam week
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How to write a good graduate job description
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You’ve been invited to apply
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A better way of connecting your company with the right people on Magnet.me
After a lot of thought and research, we’ve now decided to move towards recommending your company to the right people,

A big change in the way you explore on Magnet.me
After a long re-evaluation process full of research and discussion, we’ve decided to move away from network requests and move

Ready, set, interview!
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Your career and your profile picture
After a bit of profile investigation of Dutch job seekers, we found that job seekers with a profile picture get

Janick X Airtraffic Control Netherlands
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Step up your online profile game
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Why Excel and cat videos are ruining your talent attraction
Getting more followers on Instagram and Facebook for employer branding or recruitment purposes is already a common practice, but do

Your headline: From counting letters to making each letter counts.
Attention is a commodity that’s getting more scarce every year. Also for recruiters (trust us, we know). This means that

How to make a great first impression on an employer when you’re hungover?
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4 tips for when you’re interning at a startup
Doing an internship at a startup is popular. And rightfully so. However, when interning at a startup, don’t expect a

Studying = Lectures, exams, Netflix and…?
Your time at university is not just about studying, attending lectures and taking exams (Ok, so much for stating the

Are Dutch students better looking than British students?
Four months after our launch in the UK, we thought it would be fun to have a look at some

What is wrong with the graduate recruitment market: Recruitment agencies
We do not really like (graduate) recruitment agencies and to be honest – besides these agencies themselves – we’ve never