For students
Early careers hiring runs on a calendar nobody hands you
Spring weeks open in September and are gone by November. Summer internships take applications from August and a good number close the moment they are full, whatever date is printed on them. The people who get these places are rarely the best candidates. They are the ones who knew when to apply.
Tayo is a job search that runs for you three mornings a week, and a portal that knows which year you are in. £19.99 a month, cancel in a minute.
Where you are, and what is open to you
Employers sort early-career applicants by year of study before they look at anything else, so a programme built for a different year is a rejection rather than a stretch. Tayo asks which rung you are on when you set up, and keeps the wrong ones off your board.
First year
or second year on a four-year course
Spring weeks and insight days
A week inside a firm in the Easter vacation, and at a lot of employers it is the front of the queue for everything that follows.
Applications open from late September and many are gone by November.
Second year
on a three-year course
Placement years, and first-year schemes you can still take
A twelve month placement between second and final year, applied for a year ahead of starting it.
Placement applications open in September and close in waves through the autumn.
Penultimate year
Summer internships and vacation schemes
The summer before your final year, and at most large employers the main road to a graduate offer.
Open from August and September. Plenty are assessed as they arrive and shut once they are full.
Final year
and recent graduates
Graduate schemes, training contracts and direct entry roles
The job itself. Direct entry roles carry on all year, which is worth knowing when the named schemes have closed.
Open from August, with October and November deadlines at the big schemes and rolling ones everywhere else.
A master's student is normally welcome on graduate schemes and on the internships that take penultimate-year equivalents. Where an advert names the year it wants, that beats every rule of thumb above, and Tayo reads the advert.
What £19.99 a month buys
A search that runs without you
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, before nine. Every wording you give it, searched separately in each place you named, scored against your own CV with a line saying why it fits you.
The season, on your board
Dated scheme windows for the year you are actually in: what closes this month, what is open now, what opens next. Read from this year's published deadlines, never from last year's dates.
The right document, for the right application
A graduate scheme takes an online form with 250 word boxes, not a cover letter. Tayo works out which one an advert wants and writes towards that, so you are never told to write a letter nobody will read.
Your applications tracked to the end
Every role you are chasing in one place, with a nudge when one has gone quiet for a week, and the interviews and offers counted honestly rather than flattered. Interview prep dossiers, mock interviews and the CV builder are part of Every Morning, not this plan.
Your CV read properly
Scored against the roles you are chasing, with the specific fixes, and the skills the adverts on your board keep asking for that your CV does not mention yet.
Up to 15 new roles a week, 25 held on your board at a time, and 5 sets of application help a week. Student has no free week: it is £19.99 today and £19.99 a month after that, and you can cancel from the dashboard in about a minute. If you want the search every weekday instead, that is Every Morning at £79.
Proving you are a student
Two ways in. A UK university address ending .ac.uk goes straight through. A university address anywhere else, a .edu, .edu.sg, .ac.ae and the rest, goes through after you type back a six digit code we email to it. If your institution uses an ordinary domain, your society or careers service can give you a code instead, and their code takes the price lower still.
Not ready? Have the CV read, free
Drop your CV in and Tayo tells you what it would search for you, and what it makes of the CV. No account, no card, and nothing is charged at the end of it.
Running a society or a careers service?
We give named student groups a promotional code exclusive to their members, at a substantial discount to the public price, which the group can promote as a member benefit. There is also a free session for your members on how early-career hiring timelines actually work. Email hello@tayoplaybooks.com and it comes straight to us.