Charity and international development work
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How to break into international development - Guardian article (Feb 2011)
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Our vacancy database is updated daily with jobs from national and local employers. Also look at Finding advertised graduate vacancies for other vacancy sources.
There are a limited number of charities that offer a graduate training/internship schemes. The following charities have run graduate recruitment schemes in the past: Oxfam, Cancer Research UK, Charities Advisory Trust, and Barnado's.
Social enterprise
- Social enterprises - businesses set up to tackle a social or environmental need - examples include The Big Issue, The Eden Project and Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen. The Social Enterprise Coalition's website provides information on social enterprises and a list of members
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