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Bridgid Nzekwu did a degree in European studies at the University of London She graduated in 1992 with a first

Why did you choose to study at London university?. Students are rewarded for extra-curricular, work-based or campus activities that demonstrate their attitude, energy and commitment while at university. The Real World Graduate of the Year, now in its third year, recognises that there is more to university than just academic achievement. Makharinsky beat a shortlist of 13 other final year students to win the top prize of £10,000. His achievements include helping to found the Oxford Entrepreneurs Society, involvement in charity and excelling in both sport and music.

A Real winner

Kirill Makharinsky, a 20-year-old mathematics undergraduate from the University of Oxford, has won this year’s Real World Graduate of the Year awards. A recent survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) revealed that, while the number of graduate jobs is set to increase by 14.6 per cent this year, many recruiters anticipate difficulties in filling their vacancies. Several employers claimed that they find many graduates lack some of the “softer skills” that the job requires, such as team-working and commercial awareness.. On the other hand, you’re being told that the problem is not in fact a shortage of graduate jobs, but the fact that you might not have what it takes to secure one. It’s a confusing time to be a new graduate. On the one hand, you’re being told that there are not enough jobs to go around, as the ever-increasing number of graduating students leads to greater competition in the graduate recruitment market. “A lot of my male friends, on the other hand, had nothing lined up.”

According to new research from the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU), men are almost twice as likely as women to be unemployed six months after graduating..

“Most of my female friends were working as soon as they’d graduated,” she says. Johanna Wood, 22, didn’t waste a moment in landing a job after graduating from her psychology degree at the University of Hull last summer. Having juggled job interviews with her final year dissertation, she started work at T-Mobile the week after her last exam. The 33-year-old with a background in corporate hospitality is in the second year of a part-time MA in strategic marketing and reckons the programme has already helped secure a new job. “I wanted to move into sales and marketing roles and I’m sure the fact I was doing this course contributed to getting my new job,” says Farr, who is now a sales manager at D&D Wines International.. A postgraduate qualification is a major investment but for Allison Farr, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, it’s one that is already starting to pay off.

In the view of Joanna Aunon though, resourcing manager for UK, Europe and Africa at the Hilton Hotels chain, being overly friendly or even downright nasty to your guests is only one aspect of this wide-ranging and increasingly international job.. The clever play on words was clearly irresistible Picture the scene when the wheeze was hatched. “Let’s hire a luxury liner and fill it with rich university students as we cruise around the world,” someone suggested as a tray of gin and tonics arrived

“Nice idea,” came the unconvinced, reply “But how would we market it?”. If TV fiction is to be believed, the world of hospitality is a non-stop roller-coaster of either steamy corridor romances – think Hotel Babylon – or paranoid proprietors of the Basil Fawlty variety.