What Does A Graduate Do?

WHAT DOES A GRADUATE DO?

Published: Jun 10, 2025 - The Graduate Professional brings academic knowledge and emerging industry skills to support practical tasks across various professional settings. This role involves contributing to project success through analytical thinking, effective communication, and collaboration. The individual adapts quickly to challenges while maintaining accuracy, efficiency, and a strong commitment to continuous improvement.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Graduate

1. Graduate Analyst Duties

Brand Performance Analysis: Review the Brand Performance for catering, retail and grocery, including customer trends and behaviours
Site Performance Review: Produce site performance reviews, to include identification of transaction drivers by brand and sites as a whole
Traffic Data Analysis: Using available traffic, turn-in and footfall data to identify improvement opportunities
Price Benchmarking Support: Price benchmarking support and impact analysis, including analysing the impact of promotions on profitability
Performance Reporting: Producing weekly and monthly performance reports
Profitability Strategy Support: Work alongside the commercial team to drive profitability and support wider brand strategies
Initiative Reporting: Produce weekly and monthly reports on both brand performance and new brand initiatives
Pricing Modelling Support: Generate pricing modelling and support for the catering and retail brands
External Factors Assessment: Understanding the impact of external factors when reviewing brand performance
Post-Completion Review: Detailed post-completion reviews to demonstrate complete understanding of the impacts of marketing and brand initiatives for both the brand and the wider business

2. Graduate Assistant Details

Application Testing Support: Works with the Manager, Digital Programs and Initiatives, to trial and test new applications
Research Assistance: Assists Digital Programs and Initiatives staff in research, experimentation, and testing to support UMD Libraries' digital projects
Documentation Management: Helps to create, gather, and manage all Digital Programs and Initiatives policies, procedures, and workflow documentation
Project Needs Gathering: Gathers input from collection area librarians and curators regarding digital project needs
Requirements Translation: Actively works with colleagues within Digital Services and Technologies to translate needs into requirements
System Troubleshooting: Troubleshoots errors in digital collections and other departmental systems
Program Support Duties: Performs other duties supporting Digital Programs and Initiatives
Diversity Training Participation: Participates in university and/or library activities and training related to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
Inclusion Goals Contribution: Contributes to achieving the University's and/or the Libraries' diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility goals

3. Graduate Consultant Responsibilities

Project Data Collection: Collection and collation of project data
Audit and Survey Support: Assistance with client audits, surveys and workshops
Data Analysis Support: Desktop research, data analysis and interpretation
Feasibility Study Research: Undertake research and feasibility studies
Report Preparation: Prepare high-quality reports, presentations and workshops
Proposal Development: Prepare promotional material, commercial bids and proposals
Team Promotion: Promote the work of the team within the company and at industry events
Project Management Support: Assistance with the commercial and quality management of projects within the team
Project Record Maintenance: Ensuring project records are maintained and projects show a profitable result and are completed to an agreed programme

4. Graduate Engineer Job Summary

Safety Compliance Counseling: Partake in and counsel employees in safe work practices by understanding and complying with lock-out/ tag-out procedures
Equipment Calibration Tracking: Calibrate, track, and document equipment in conformance with ISO standards in the Quality Systems calibration manuals
System Troubleshooting: Maintain and troubleshoot plant weight gage systems, glass pull systems, position control valves, IR scanners and belt tracking units
Lab Equipment Maintenance: Maintain and document laboratory equipment
Plant Operations Learning: Learn several different operations and areas with plants
Combustion Component Maintenance: Maintain and troubleshoot furnace and fiberizer combustion components, controls, and instruments
Environmental Equipment Calibration: Maintain, troubleshoot, and calibrate plant environmental monitoring equipment, mass flow meters, weight scales and linear transducers
Diagram Interpretation: Originate, maintain and understand electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, and piping and instrumentation diagrams
Thermocouple Installation: Maintain, build, and install thermocouples

5. Graduate Recruiter Accountabilities

Business Development: Utilise network and market knowledge to identify new business opportunities within the market
Client Engagement: Contact clients to identify recruitment needs, offer consultative advice and deliver solutions according to the requirements
Candidate Sourcing: Utilise a variety of sourcing methods to identify candidates including in-house candidate database, headhunting, social media sourcing, and managing applications
Candidate Interviewing: Conduct detailed candidate telephone interviews to match their skillsets to client requirements
KPI Management: Meet performance standards that relate to KPI’s
Desk Management: Build and manage a permanent/contract desk and effectively build a business unit within C4S Search
Customer Service: Provide excellent customer service to both candidates and clients to build lasting business relationships

6. Graduate Research Assistant Functions

Policy Research: Undertake research to support HP’s advocacy and thought leadership on the Circular Economy, WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and Climate Policy
Stakeholder Coordination: Work closely with Program Managers within the team and other key internal stakeholders to identify research priorities
Research Reporting: Manage desk-based research projects, produce research reports and presentations
Advocacy Support: Undertake research to support strategic advocacy priorities and projects
Academic Collaboration: Develop connections with academic organisations to help collaborate on research projects and share research
Position Development: Help the team craft positions and position papers on key topics
Content Creation: Create papers, presentations and articles that can be used with external stakeholders
Outcome Communication: Communicate research outcomes by joining advocacy meetings, by presenting at external conferences and by authoring articles

7. Graduate Nurse Job Description

Patient Care: Providing direct patient care activities appropriate to training and competency for assigned patients with direct supervision of RN
Device Operation: Learning to operate various medical devices
Disease Knowledge: Learning various disease processes
Team Interaction: Interacting with nurses, assistants, physicians, therapists, and other healthcare providers
Clinical Development: Working to expand clinical knowledge and skills
Hospital Familiarization: Familiarizing themselves with the hospital environment
Clinical Exposure: Gaining clinical experience and exposure to nursing procedures
RN Assistance: Assisting RNs in completing tasks that support patient care activities
Patient Satisfaction: Completing patient care activities while promoting excellent patient satisfaction and outcomes
Guideline Compliance: Working under the guidelines of an RN with assigned patients by the hospital guidelines

8. Graduate Development Surveyor Overview

Project Management: Assist in the management of development projects from bid through the planning process, construction, and stabilisation
Site Appraisal: Appraise new site introductions
Team Coordination: Coordinate the professional team alongside the Employer's Agent
Stakeholder Engagement: Develop relationships with key stakeholders e.g., planners, neighbours, local community and third-party agencies
Project Reporting: Provide regular updates to the Development Surveyor
Appraisal Management: Assist in managing and updating project appraisals
Target Delivery: Work to specific timescales and financial targets
Budget Support: Develop an understanding and assist with the project budget and cash flow alongside the finance team
Construction Oversight: Oversee the construction process from procurement through to completion
Cross-Team Liaison: Liaise with the wider team on the project, such as Investment, Finance, Asset Management, Design, Strategy and Marketing

9. Graduate Trainee Details and Accountabilities

Client Liaison: Client liaison and contact via phone and email
Meeting Preparation: Compiling preparation packs for client meetings
Product Analysis: Carrying out analysis of products and providing comparisons between existing and proposed holdings
Query Response: Responding quickly and accurately to queries raised either by clients or advisers
Document Preparation: Preparing enclosures for client letters
Transaction Processing: Processing applications and following up with investment houses on all transactions to ensure instructions are executed
Business Execution: Executing new business transactions and other dealing requirements including fund switches, sales and purchases of unit trusts, ISAs, investment bonds and SIPPs
Document Management: Ensure that documentation is always completed and correctly filed
Administrative Support: Carrying out administration tasks and providing other support to advisers