Graduate recruitment

The Guardian London Graduate Fair, organised jointly with the Careers Group, University of London, is an annual event which provides many students with a valuable opportunity to talk face-to-face with potential employers. However, this year, BAE Systems – the world’s largest arms producer – were allowed to exhibit at the fair and attempt to recruit […]

Students set out to counter the slick image presented by BAE at their careers stall, by providing information on the company’s activities. The importance of this was demonstrated by the numbers of students who were unaware of what BAE actually does. Read original article.

The presidents of a host of student societies called for arms companies to be banned from the Exeter campus. When the arms companies did attend a careers fair, they were met by biohazard suit-clad protesters and a spoof ‘arms company’ stall. Read the full story here.

The Weapons out of Warwick group are getting involved in CAAT’s Ban BAE campaign.  Students are determined that BAE will be met with protest whenever they come to campus, and that students be fully informed about the career decisions that they make. Read Chris Hackett’s article in The Boar here.

Socialist Students, Green Action and Amnesty International students worked together to protest the presence of eleven arms companies at Southampton IT, Science and Engineering Career’s Fair. To read the original article by Peter Apps in Wessex Scene please click here. Read this article to find out more about the University’s relationship with BAE Systems.

Two weeks after the launch of Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s new Ban BAE counter-recruitment campaign, students and anti-arms trade activists kicked off the academic year by taking over a BAE recruitment presentation and staging a die-in at their stall. The action took place at the Guardian’s busy Graduate Fair held at the Business Design […]

Bristol students challenged attendees of the university careers fair to question whether a ‘career in killing’ was actually something they wanted during their protest last week. Read more on Bristol IndyMedia.

Security staff at Edinburgh University temporarily closed the careers fair during a ‘die-in’ by members of Students for Justice in Palestine at the BAE stall. Read more about the protest here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTMqYQDodk

Natalie Horlock Employer Liaison Officer Careers and Employment Service University of Exeter Kay Building North Park Road Exeter EX4 4QF 9th October 2010 Dear Natalie Horlock, We, the undersigned, are extremely concerned that the University will be actively advertising, supporting and working in partnership with three arms companies on Wednesday 27th October at the careers […]