
Discover Career Opportunities for New Graduates
Graduating from college or university marks the beginning of an exciting professional journey, and 2026 brings countless opportunities for new graduates to build successful careers across a wide range of industries. Employers worldwide are actively recruiting talented graduates who bring fresh ideas, strong academic knowledge, and the willingness to learn. Whether you have recently completed your degree or are preparing to enter the workforce for the first time, graduate jobs provide an excellent pathway to gain valuable experience, develop professional skills, and establish a rewarding long-term career.
Graduate opportunities are available across virtually every industry, allowing candidates from different educational backgrounds to find roles that match their qualifications and career goals. Organizations regularly recruit Graduate Trainees, Management Trainees, Business Analysts, Software Developers, Engineers, Accountants, Financial Analysts, Marketing Executives, Human Resources Coordinators, Customer Success Specialists, Sales Executives, Data Analysts, Healthcare Professionals, Research Assistants, Operations Coordinators, Supply Chain Specialists, Project Coordinators, Quality Assurance Engineers, Graphic Designers, and Administrative Officers. Opportunities are available with multinational corporations, technology companies, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, manufacturing firms, educational institutions, government agencies, consulting firms, and rapidly growing startups.
Graduate training programs are among the most popular career paths for recent graduates. These structured programs provide practical experience, professional mentoring, rotational assignments, technical training, and leadership development while helping new employees gain a comprehensive understanding of business operations. Many employers use graduate programs to identify future leaders and prepare them for management and specialist positions within the organization.
Technology continues to be one of the largest employers of graduates. Companies actively recruit Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, and Data Science graduates for positions such as Software Developers, Web Developers, Cloud Engineers, Cybersecurity Analysts, Artificial Intelligence Engineers, DevOps Specialists, Data Analysts, and Technical Support Professionals. As digital transformation continues across industries, technology graduates remain in exceptionally high demand.
Graduates with backgrounds in business, finance, economics, and commerce also enjoy excellent career opportunities. Banks, financial institutions, consulting firms, and multinational companies recruit Financial Analysts, Business Analysts, Accountants, Auditors, Investment Associates, Marketing Executives, Human Resources Professionals, Procurement Specialists, and Operations Coordinators. These positions provide valuable business experience and strong opportunities for long-term career advancement.
Engineering graduates remain highly sought after across construction, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications, transportation, and infrastructure industries. Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Industrial Engineers, and Environmental Engineers contribute to designing, developing, and maintaining projects that support economic growth and technological innovation.
Healthcare, life sciences, and education also offer rewarding graduate careers. Hospitals, research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, laboratories, and educational organizations recruit Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Medical Laboratory Scientists, Physiotherapists, Clinical Researchers, Teachers, and Education Coordinators. These professions provide meaningful opportunities to improve lives while building stable and respected careers.
Employers value graduates who demonstrate more than academic achievement. Strong communication skills, teamwork, analytical thinking, adaptability, creativity, leadership potential, problem-solving abilities, and a willingness to learn are highly desirable qualities in today’s competitive job market. Practical experience gained through internships, volunteer work, academic projects, or extracurricular activities can significantly strengthen a graduate’s application.
The qualifications required for graduate jobs vary depending on the industry and role. Most employers require a bachelor’s degree, while certain technical or specialist positions may also require professional certifications, licenses, or postgraduate qualifications. Many organizations provide comprehensive onboarding programs, technical training, mentorship, and continuous learning opportunities to help graduates transition successfully into professional careers.
Working in graduate roles offers numerous benefits beyond competitive starting salaries. Depending on the employer, graduates may receive health insurance, retirement plans, paid annual leave, performance bonuses, relocation assistance, flexible working arrangements, professional certification support, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, and opportunities for international assignments. Many organizations also provide clear career progression pathways, allowing graduates to advance into senior technical, specialist, or leadership positions.
To improve your chances of securing a graduate job, prepare a professional resume highlighting your education, internships, academic achievements, technical skills, certifications, volunteer experience, and extracurricular activities. Tailor your application for each position and prepare thoroughly for interviews by demonstrating your enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and ability to contribute to organizational success. Employers highly value candidates who are motivated, adaptable, and committed to continuous professional development.
The global demand for talented graduates continues to grow as organizations invest in innovation, digital transformation, sustainability, healthcare, finance, engineering, and business expansion. Employers across multiple industries are searching for ambitious individuals who can bring fresh perspectives and help shape the future of their organizations. This ongoing demand creates outstanding opportunities for graduates to launch successful careers with respected employers.
If you are ready to begin your professional journey, now is the perfect time to discover career opportunities for new graduates. Browse the latest graduate job openings, review the eligibility requirements, prepare a strong application, and apply before the recruitment deadlines. With the right qualifications, determination, and commitment to learning, you can build a successful and fulfilling career in your chosen field.
Data analysis / quantitative readouts Evaluator
About the role
We are hiring expert Evaluators in Data analysis / quantitative readouts to review and assess AI-generated work products (documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks) for accuracy, rigor, and domain quality. You will apply deep subject-matter expertise to grade outputs.
This is a remote, hourly engagement.
Requirements (must have)
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in Data analysis / quantitative readouts.
- Native or professional fluency in English.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, especially Slides (Google Slides / PowerPoint).
Preferred (nice to have)
- Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) from a reputable institution.
What you’ll do
- Evaluate AI-generated artifacts against domain-specific quality rubrics.
- Identify factual, aesthetic, and presentation errors.
- Provide clear, structured written feedback.
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
Contract and Payment Terms
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
- Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
- Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
About Mercor
Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.
Sales Graduate Role
Job Location
Weybridge
Job Description
Ready to fuel the success of globally renowned brands like Gillette, Pampers, Head & Shoulders and Oral-B that millions of consumers can’t live without? Ever dreamt of a commercial career where you can be a key part of improving consumers’ lives? Want to work for a company consistently recognised as one of the UK’s leading graduate employers?
Then embark on a career in Sales at P&G where you’ll manage your own multi-million-pound business right from day one. You get to be the key contact for the business with some of the UK’s biggest retailers and are responsible for building and maintaining that relationship. You will build and design ideas, strategize using analytics and shopper insights, use your relationship and understanding of the market to sell, and execute your ideas. Our Sales graduates are a key part of the P&G mission to build brands that improve consumers’ lives. We partner with other functions including marketing, supply chain, and finance to remain at the cutting edge of the industry with consumer behaviour at the heart of everything we do. We constantly find new ways to market our products to more people and develop business plans that drive category growth and delight consumers.
This role is available at our UK head office in Weybridge, Surrey which is an easy commute from London with regular trains from Waterloo and Clapham Junction and a free shuttle bus from the station to the office.
This is the first of multiple career academies that we will run. We will also have events later in the year for those looking to start Summer 2027 and beyond.
P&G Commercial Career Academy – 17th to 18th September 2026
The Commercial Career Academy is the final step in our application process to secure yourself a graduate role with P&G!
It is an intensive learning course designed to challenge your business and critical thinking, networking and team building skills, in real business situations. At our Commercial Career Academy, you will work on a real case study covering all aspects of business including a presentation to a board of directors at P&G, followed by a final interview.
The Commercial Career Academy will be held in person on 17th to 18th September 2026
We believe socio-economic status should not be a barrier to accessing job opportunities and seek to ensure that we are championing social mobility. That’s why all costs associated with your attendance at this event will be covered by P&G.
Find out more about Career Academies here: https://www.pgcareers.com/graduate-career-academy-in-the-UK
What You Will Gain:
- Responsibilities from Day 1: There are no rotational schemes here. Right from the start, you will be doing a full-time leadership job in Sales, managing your own account with a retailer.
- Build from Within Career: You’ll collaborate with passionate individuals and receive both formal training and day-to-day mentoring from your manager. As a ‘build from within’ company, our people start at entry level and progress through the organization. When we make a job offer, it’s with the expectation that you will grow into one of our future leaders, and to help you get there, you will work closely with skilled P&G veterans for mentoring and coaching at every step.
- Competitive Compensation: The annual starting salary for this role is £45,000. We consistently benchmark our salaries against top competitors and every P&G employee’s salary is reviewed at least annually so there is ample room for growth. In addition to this, you’ll receive an annual bonus based on business results.
- Great Benefits: P&G take a Total Rewards approach meaning on top of your salary, which is reviewed annually, you can expect a whole range of benefits including a competitive double-matched pension scheme, private health insurance, participation in a stock ownership scheme, and your very own ‘Flex4Me’ Fund which enables you to allocate a portion of your benefits package to the areas that matter most to you.
- Enrolment into Vision: In your first two years with us will be enrolled into our Vision group. The purpose of this group is to connect new hires across our commercial UK sites, by building their capability and organising fun events throughout the year!
Graduate Analyst
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money.
For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission and what we offer.
As a Graduate Product Analyst, you’ll join our Analytics team on the 7th of September 2026. This full-time role is an opportunity to have a real impact and kickstart your career. You’ll be onboarded with the Graduate cohort in our London office and learn the basics of being a Wiser, as well as understand how analytics work here.
In this role, you will:
- Be part of the Product Analytics team within Wise
- Collaborate cross-functionally to shape and build our product
- Carry out data analysis using various statistical methods and tools to help us prioritise the most significant changes. All with the help of other senior analysts that will support you
- Collaborate with other cross functional stakeholders in the team, including Product Managers, engineers, designers and others, working on projects that will be the most impactful for our customers
- Assist in building and optimising data infrastructure (DBT, dashboards, A/B testing) and analysis to support strategic and data-driven decisions for your team
- You have graduated in 2025/2026 with a Bachelors or Masters degree potentially in Data Science/Analytics, Computer Science, STEM or Economics/Business/Finance.
- Ready to start a full-time role on the 7th of September 2026, subject to external factors.
- You enjoy using numbers and data visualisation to tell a story
- You used coding to solve problems before and have some experience with using SQL, Python or R. That could be during your studies or as part of a personal project you’re passionate about!
- You’re curious, keen to learn and proactive by nature
- You’re open to and value feedback in order to improve
- Don’t worry, we don’t expect you to know everything!
- Have the unrestricted right to work in the UK and available to work in our local London office at least three times per week to support your development
🏠You will have flexibility in how and where you work. We understand everyone needs a little something different – so we’ll do our best to make it happen, but we recommend coming to the office as much as possible in your first weeks!
🍽️Weekly office lunch and breakfast, coffee, tea and snacks!
💸Salary band: £52,000 GBP/year
🏢Fun and creative offices with social activities
🌟Be part of a global team with a global mindset.
💥Have a real impact. Solve real customer problems.
Entry-level communications specialist
The role of a Entry-level communications specialist at Canonical
We’re on the look out for a brilliant B2B Social Media Marketing Manager to join our team and take our communications to the next level. Our social media provides a window between the people who make our products and those who use them. With audiences in the millions, our online communities have the opportunity to talk to us, engage with us, provide feedback and be involved in the world of Ubuntu. From #opensource to coffee on K8s, launch previews to twitter storms over some cool release swag, our marketing team is committed to creating conversations with audiences all over planet earth: developers, tech enthusiasts, security engineers…
The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
This role sits in the communications team reporting to the director of communications.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
What your day will look like
- Create, schedule and publish content and campaigns across multiple social media channels
- Deliver regular analysis and reporting on social media metrics, content performance and campaigns results
- Support the growth and nurturing of Canonical’s social media audiences, while increasing engagement rates and valuable actions
- Develop flair with copywriting and asset creation to create messaging that aligns with the brand and its personality, and drives audiences towards action
- Be responsible for executing A/B and multivariate growth tests
- Be audience centric, focusing on platform and community moderation, as well as direct audience engagement
- Create awareness on integrated campaigns, product launches, webinar series, industry announcements and core content
- Package all of Canonical’s product offerings and educational material creatively, from bare metal, AI, Kubernetes to chats on diversity and CSR.
What we are looking for in you
- Experience managing social media platforms for tech brands, part of a content team or marketing agency
- Hands-on knowledge of social media management tools, an understanding of web analytics tools (social and web)
- Proficiency with at least four social media platforms including LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit
- An analytical eye and a good sense for the type of content that performs best depending on platform and objective
- Experience with educational content funnels, and using video as a core social media marketing asset
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong content marketer
- Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
What we offer you
Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence – in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.
AI Evaluation Analyst
Role Title: AI Evaluation Analyst
Role Type: Contractor
Location: Remote
micro1 is engaging AI Evaluation Analysts to contribute to a customer’s project focused on advancing frontier language model capabilities. In this role, you’ll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. You will play a crucial role in producing evaluation and training data that directly influence how powerful AI models understand and interact. This is an exciting opportunity to operate at the forefront of AI, with a focus on written and verbal clarity, multi-turn conversation design, and deep analysis of model behavior.
Scope of Work
- Author detailed, task-based multi-turn conversations and rubrics aligned with project specifications.
- Test and refine conversation drafts against frontier large language models, iterating to meet quality and difficulty requirements.
- Deliver comprehensive evaluation assets including transcripts, target behaviors, binary rubrics, and supporting evidence.
- Ensure strict fidelity to evolving project specs while maintaining high throughput and attention to detail.
- Validate and calibrate outputs with team leads and quality control as guidelines change.
- Work independently and consistently, meeting expected output rates for deliverable completion.
Preferred Qualifications
- Native-level written English with exceptional clarity, structure, and attention to detail.
- Prior experience in data annotation, RLHF, SFT, evaluation, or prompt engineering for AI systems.
- Working knowledge of frontier LLM behaviors and common model failure patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply highly detailed specifications without supervision.
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills in writing-heavy or analysis-heavy domains.
- Experience authoring evaluation items, rubrics, or conducting deep analysis of technology outputs.
- Background in research, editorial, technical writing, or quality assurance is a plus.
Compensation Structure
Compensation is output-based; experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. The time required to complete work may vary depending on the expert’s experience and workflow. Minimum submission requirements apply. Experts must submit a minimum of tasks per week.
Start Timeline & Availability
We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
