Jobs and Recruitment in Cambridge

Introduction.

Anyone who is thinking that the only jobs in Cambridge were offered at the university couldn’t be more wrong. Surely the University of Cambridge is still a major employer in the city. But in the last few years a increasing number of science, technology and other business companies have opened offices there. Nowadays Cambridge is one of the most buoyant UK jobs markets.

Getting a Jobs on the public sector

You might think that a job recruitment agency, which is specialised in management jobs and executive recruitment might not be requested at the Cambridge University. If you are such a person - you are wrong! Quite often seeking replacements for even the even highest of vacant executive jobs in many UK universities; meaning even that of Vice-Chancellor, will be placed in the hands of a specialist executive jobs agency.  The reason for this is quite simple; high calibre universities like Cambridge need to be sure they’re attracting the very best candidates and from a wide field of prospective employees. Filling management jobs or executive jobs these days isn’t anymore left to ‘the old boy network’ - but is entrusted to highly professional executive recruitment specialists. With over 3000 non-academic staff at Cambridge University, there are plenty of opportunities for executive and management jobs as well as management consultancy ones, especially in these days of Public- Private-Partnerships. Other significant but non-commercial employers in Cambridge, who may well return job opportunities if you do an executive search on the internet, include the City Council and Addenbroke’s Hospital - which employs over 6000 people. Despite both of those organisations having large Human Resources departments of their own, they will still consult with executive recruitment agencies for some posts.

Getting a Job in the private sector

In Cambridge a very high number of vacant jobs require a graduation. Due to the its highly educated graduates, Cambridge became the capital of job head-hunters and human resources managers. Cambridge is, of course, the epicentre of what has become known as the ‘Silicone Fen’ because of the number of hi-tech companies located there, especially in and around the Cambridge Science Park, just off the A14. Companies here include small ‘self-starting’ companies at the cutting edge of technology through to subsidiaries of larger multi-national corporations. The very nature of the work carried out here means they are nearly always looking for high-calibre professionals to recruit; and having your details recorded with the type of high quality recruitment agencies they’ll turn to - can only help to put you at the front of any likely candidates for jobs going in the city. Just because there are quite a lot of management jobs and executive jobs advertised in Cambridge doesn’t mean that the jobs market in Cambridge is unstable. In reality Cambridge employers are some of the most loyal in the country with many employees being highly satisfied with their levels of job satisfaction, job security and their working environment. Which, at a time when typically 70% of us don’t feel our jobs are secure - can’t be a bad thing.

Cambridge – a city for students only?

Against a common opinion the students are only a small part of Cambridge’s population. Cambridge has a permanent population of 130.000 people, only 18.000 of them are students. A huge part of the population are university workers of all levels. However, whilst most of the university workers are also resident in Cambridge, the vast majority of students aren’t. For most students the academic year is barely more than 6 months in total, so for a big slice of the year Cambridge isn’t a city where you’ll feel unable to escape from students. Indeed at the times of year when you’re most likely to take some time off work yourself - hardly any students will be around. The converse of this is, of course, that if you love visiting museums and social opportunities that one of our seats of learning can offer - working and living in Cambridge in a management or executive job might be just the thing for you.

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