Open to penultimate and final year
students across all degree disciplines
We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the outstanding Future Business Leader of the Year. The type of student we’re looking for MUST have the following:
- Evidence of leadership ability or experience of leading a team/project
- Evidence of acting on opportunities and implementing change
- Evidence of positions of responsibility
- Evidence that you have delivered on your promises and exceeded expectations
You also need a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will be rewarded with a paid summer placement which may lead to a job offer and a week at the Mars Cocoa Research Centre in Brazil. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April, 2012.
Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor Mars and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.
So if you are a penultimate or final year student studying any degree subject...
And you are expecting at least a 2.1 and have 300 UCAS points...
And you are an EU national...
And you have solid evidence of leadership skills...
And you think you're the best Future Business Leader of the Year in the UK, click the big button below.
Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.
How do I win it then?
It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.
Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer a special question posed by the sponsor, Mars.
Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere between 30 and 70 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is 31 January 2012.
Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.
Tell me about Mars
Think ‘work, rest and play’. Think M&Ms, Uncle Ben’s, Pedigree, Whiskas and Wrigley, iconic billion-dollar brands. Think the world’s third-largest food company, generating annual revenues of more than $30billion and international operations in 370 locations.
We were founded in 1911, are still privately owned and are one of the world’s biggest confectionery companies, as well as one of the world’s leading petcare organisations.
We employ over 68,000 associates worldwide and put a huge emphasis on developing our people. We have a strong heritage and passion for developing exceptional business leaders. A number of the UK’s biggest organisations, including our own, are led by CEO’s who started their career out on a Mars graduate programme.
We take on around 30 graduates each year across 5 graduate programmes: General Management, Engineering, Finance, Research and Development and Procurement. To find out more information please visit us at www.mars.co.uk/graduates or why not say hello to us via Facebook: www.facebook.com/marsgradsuk or Twitter @marsgradsuk.
