Why Choose Us?
We at Bright Futures are hugely passionate about what we do. We drive our own success and others' by inspiring excellence and delivering beyond the expected. We will do everything we can to make sure the service we deliver isn't just a good job, but that it is an extraordinary job. But, don't just take our word for it, take a look at our long list of testimonials below to see what other people have been saying about us... then you can make your own mind up as to whether you take the plunge and drop us a line....
Why should YOU get involved in Bright Futures?
See what Bright Futures is all about from the employers and the students themselves...
Undergraduate working in the Bright Futures National Team
"During my final year at university I worked at Bright Futures and through this role decided to also became a committee member for the Bright Futures Society at my University. Working with Bright Futures is the best thing I did, I have had the chance to work in a fun and fast paced commercial setting whilst developing my employbility skills and have learnt so much. The team have been a huge support whilst completing my degree and have taken the time to develop my skills, because of this I have successfully secured a graduate job. A big thank you to everyone at Bright Futures."
Society Member, Kings College London
"I wanted inform you that my job interview with the FSA went very well and I have just been offered the position as a summer associate. I really would like to thank you for your help and tips which proved extremely useful in the preparation for the interview (to be honest, before your presentation at Kings really had no idea what to expect from a Competency based interview and without being rightly prepared it would have probably been a disaster)!"
Gareth, Reading
| "As President, I have been able to improve my communication and leadership skills, which have allowed me to network more effectively between diverse groups of individuals and organisations. Moreover, this society has given me the opportunity to put theories learnt from my course into practice in the business and working environment." |  |
Nestlé
"We need people who are future leaders for our business, so I'm really keen to engage with the presidents of these societies... the most focused students are the ones we're looking for."
Head Teacher, Castle School, Thornbury
“This is an enviable opportunity for our students to help shape a ground breaking initiative. The students will be leading this initiative: it is their society and that's what makes it so special. For me as Head Teacher, the Bright Futures Schools Society is a unique opportunity for our students to develop a range of essential employability skills in a truly challenging and creative way."
Endsleigh
"We worked closely with Bright Futures when designing the recruitment campaign for our 2012 graduate intake. We wanted to double the amount of graduates we hired from the previous year, and we also wanted to solve several problems and issues with the selection process that we had encountered in earlier campaigns. Bright Futures provided us with excellent advice, ideas and solutions, many of which we implemented. The results have been striking - we have increased both the volume and quality of candidates attracted, and have been able to put in place a highly effective selection process that is working extremely well. I have no doubt that we will achieve our graduate hiring targets, and fill all of our vacancies with high quality individuals. Bright Futures have played a vital role in ensuring that our graduate scheme recruitment will be a major success story in 2012."
Reckitt Benckiser
For this world-leading FMCG we have recruited more than 65 graduates across multiple disciplines
BRIEF
Due to a lack of time in the HR department, Bright Futures Resourcing was brought in to source graduates with strong leadership potential, in addition to high levels of competency in the Company’s seven key graduate skill areas. Top tier candidates were required for three Graduate Programmes; Marketing & Sales, Research & Development and Supply Chain and Demand Planning.
SUCCESS
In the first year six candidates were selected to fill positions within the Sales & Marketing, Research & Development, and Supply Chain teams, despite a challenging timeframe and budget.
We introduced and integrated a strengths-based interview approach to the early stages of the Commercial selection programmes, seamlessly integrating it with a competency approach at final stages.
Very high levels of professionalism throughout, with a relevant approach to graduate recruitment and a dedicated account team.
- HR Manager, Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare
SINCE
Since this initial project Bright Futures have recruited nearly 70 individuals over the past 5 years into functions including Sales and Marketing, Research and Development, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Corporate Communications, IS and Campus Brand Managers across the UK and Europe into placement, internship and graduate roles. Managing multiple departments and programmes helps to ensure a consistent standard of graduate is hired across the business.
Hollie, St Andrews
“Like many people I started my final year of university in a slight panic about what I wanted to do with my life! As a student of Art History and French, with plenty of experience in a variety of jobs and student societies, the options were overwhelming, but I was determined that my perfect future career was out there: I just hadn’t stumbled across it yet.
That autumn I decided to go to as many careers events as possible, including a mock assessment centre run by Bright Futures and Accenture. With no prior experience in business, I wasn’t really sure what to expect and thrust into a negotiation exercise with what seemed like a room full of management students I didn’t feel particularly confident! Despite this I received some really positive feedback and I realised that employers were not interested in the result of the exercise but in how you interact with people. My confidence bolstered and I decided to apply for Accenture’s management consultancy programme. Going to the real-life assessment centre was a far less nerve-racking experience having been to the Bright Futures event, and I was privileged to receive an offer to start in July 2011.
The Bright Futures event really improved my self-confidence and made me realise that despite coming from an unrelated degree discipline, I could compete just as well in the graduate job market.”
Deepika, Lancaster
“Yesterday (at a national conference) was definitely an unforgettable and valuable experience and I know for a fact, this is the first of many, many, many wonderful experiences to come!!”
IBM
"IBM have a great relationship with Bright Futures, for the key reason that they provide bright, high performing, confident students into the Graduate Employment market, by equipping them with key employability skills including: commercial awareness, leadership, negotiation and client focus. The events that are run between IBM and Bright Futures are always guaranteed a good audience and are always well worth the time, effort and financial sponsorship. As a Graduate Recruiter, Bright Futures provides the ideal pool of potential applicants for our Student and Graduate schemes. It's a relationship well worth investing in."
OnTrack International
"An organisation of absolute integrity - they believe in what they're doing. The thing for me that makes Bright Futures students stand out is that they want to succeed - they're not waiting for it to happen."
Jackie, Swansea
"Bright Futures, for me, filled that huge and vast gap that linked me to employers and my dream career. Having studied Zoology at university, and come to the realisation that a degree might not get me the future I wanted (not that I knew what that was yet), I decided that I must do everything I can to stand out. I made the very most of my time at university, taking up new sports, becoming President of the Dance Society, setting up my own community project, working for the Students Union, the Athletic Union, the University itself in a multitude of different avenues as well as raising thousands of pounds for charity. Not to mention taking up a part time HNC in Business Studies on top of my degree in attempt to broaden my academic knowledge.
But despite being crazy enough to take on all these activities, there was something significantly missing. I still had no idea what opportunities I would be capable of doing in the real world, I didn’t know which companies would take someone with a Zoology degree, and I had no idea who the likes of KPMG, Deloitte and Accenture were never mind what the difference was between them, or what on earth ‘SME’ stood for!
I desperately needed to find out how to actually secure a real job, what I was even interested in doing and who in fact would take on someone like me. That’s when I received an email about becoming part of the new Bright Futures Committee and establishing the society at Swansea University. I was about to go into my final year. I needed to pick up my game on the degree front (ultimately what I was there for) so taking on a big role in another society was a risk, but I knew I had to do it.
The society opened my eyes to all these things and more, giving me the confidence to network and present to large groups of people and be secure in the knowledge that I had the capacity to secure a great graduate job, not to mention my ability to thrive under pressure!
Bright Futures also highlighted my inherent desire to help other people identify their true talents and progress in their lives and their future; this is why I continued to support Bright Futures both nationally and locally after I graduated. I wanted to know more and help others in the same position. I soon proved my dedication and developed a greater relationship with the national team. Soon enough I was offered the role of Regional Manager, directly supporting all societies in the South of the UK.
Not only did it open my eyes to the vast amount of opportunities out there and the skills required to get them, it gave me my first graduate job. A job that enables me to help hundreds of students in my committees alone to stand out in the competitive job market, a job that allows me to continuously develop as an individual and make a real difference to the way the company works, a job where I get to meet so many different people from very different backgrounds, a job that I am inspired by and love to do on a daily basis."
Dynamo Marketing Communications
"Your service has saved an enormous amount of my time, expensive advertising and delivered a far superior result."
Intercall
"From the first contact, to the assessment day and selection, the whole process was speedy, cost effective and very good."
Accenture
“We have found collaborating with Bright Futures to be very valuable not only in exposing Accenture to high calibre, career focused individuals but also in developing relationships with our target universities. I have always been and continue to be very impressed with the passion and motivation of all Bright Futures members.”
CIMA
“A superb event which really opened CIMA's eyes to the potential that Bright Futures offers to both its corporate Investors and students…… The networking provided an unrivalled opportunity to understand the thoughts of students in today’s credit crunch world."
Director of Employability, University of Essex
“The University of Essex is pleased to partner again this year with Bright Futures, a recognised leader in the field of graduate recruitment, to bring you this extra service for Essex Alumni. As recent graduates you will want to get your careers off to a flying start. Because we recognise the challenges facing you in an increasing competitive labour market we have contracted with Bright Futures to provide you with a personalised job seeking service. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain support from a company that works closely with top graduate employers. I’d encourage you to make the most of this fantastic offer.”
Miles, Castle School
| "Being part of Bright Futures has been a fantastic opportunity for both myself and The Castle School. Working closely with Bright futures to organise our first event was incredibly useful to ensure its success. The wide range of contacts they have with companies really did boost the profile of the event and I have enjoyed every second of my experience so far!" |  |
