Kat Snodgrass is mthree’s Head of Alumni Talent for the UK and Europe. She’s helped hundreds of graduates secure roles in Software Engineering and Production Support at global investment banks through our Alumni Programme. In this article, Kat shares what she looks for when reviewing applications and tells you how you can stand out from the crowd.

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After an academic year jam-packed with reading, assignments, group projects and exams, your summer holidays are finally here!

After the initial high of hitting the holidays, you realise that this might just be one of your final summer breaks before you graduate and hit the workforce, so you might want to use it wisely!

Of course, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t engage in fun stuff, like café-hopping with friends or meeting up for a round of darts, especially now that it’s much easier to meet up as we enter the endemic phase.

You’ve spent the past one to three years working from home (WFH), using your time efficiently and keeping productivity high. But now, Safe Management Measures (SMMs) have been mostly lifted, life is returning to relative normalcy and you’re tasked with returning to the office more often.