Top Employers Report 2019-20

1 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Contents

About the report 03 About the data sources 03 Top 10 – all sectors 04 Sector specific – top 10 lists 05 Animation 05 Broadcast media 06 Computer software 07 Design 08 Financial services 09 Higher education 10 Hospital and healthcare 11 Hospitality 12 IT services 13 Legal practice 14 Leisure, travel and tourism 15 Marketing and advertising 16 Mechanical and industrial engineering 17 Media production 18 PR and communications 21 Sports 22

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About the report Live Alumni This report draws on publicly available information to provide Live Alumni is a paid-for service which collates publicly available insights into the leading employers of Bournemouth University LinkedIn profiles, with a particular university listed in the graduates. It has been developed by the Alumni Relations Team education field, via an online portal. The BU Alumni Relations as an internal resource for staff at BU. Team took out a one-year subscription to Live Alumni in 2019 to test the value of the service. During this time, it had access The report draws on two data sources – both powered by to 49,333 profiles of BU alumni. Data from this source combines LinkedIn – to offer a current view of graduate employment, individuals’ current and previous employment and therefore as well as a longer-term view which combines graduates’ gives a longer-term view of the leading employers of BU alumni. current and previous positions. In both cases, the data relies on information being provided and kept up-to-date by individuals Given the differences between the two data sources, the via their public LinkedIn profiles and is therefore indicative information gathered is not always compatible. It should also be rather than comprehensive. noted that the data does not distinguish between casual/part- time positions, internships or full-time, graduate employment. About the data sources Data is gathered into sectors based on how the individuals In each section, we have listed the leading employers of BU assign their roles – so, for example, if a sufficient number of alumni by numbers of graduates employed, based on the graduates work in a marketing role for a financial services following data sources. company, the employer will appear under marketing. Bournemouth University LinkedIn page Bournemouth University’s LinkedIn page has 93,433 followers, including 82,385 alumni. The page enables visitors to get an overview of its alumni followers’ employment destinations, including by company and by industry sector. Data from this source reflects individuals’ current employment status as recorded on LinkedIn, and therefore provides a snapshot in time as opposed to a longer-term view of the leading employers of BU alumni.

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 3 Top 10 – all sectors

BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 J.P. Morgan 529 2 BBC 209 3 Tesco 190 4 LV= 181 5 IBM 166 6 HSBC Bank 155 7 Sky 123 8 Microsoft 94 9 PricewaterhouseCoopers 76 10 EY (Ernst & Young) 73

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 J.P. Morgan 1,673 2 BBC 1,184 3 IBM 613 4 Waitrose & Partners 529 5 Sainsbury’s 515 6 Marks & Spencer 512 7 LV= 503 8 NHS 482 9 British Army 479 10 MPC (Moving Picture Company) 474

4 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Sector specific – top 10 lists

Animation BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 DNEG 143 2 MPC (Moving Picture Company) 109 3 Framestore 96 4 Industrial Light & Magic 65 5 Blue Zoo 44 6 Foundry 20 7 Freelance, self-employed 18 8 The Mill 17 9 Method Studios 16 10 Outpost VFX 15

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Blue Zoo 128 2 Aardman Animations 57 3 Animal Logic 25 4 Axis Studios 23 5 Nexus Studios 21 6 Proof Inc. 19 7 Karrot Animation 18 8 DreamWorks Animation 16 9 Not To Scale 10 10 A Large Evil Corporation 10

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 5 Broadcast media BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 BBC 193 2 Sky 76 3 ITV 37 4 The Walt Disney Company 12 5 Discovery, Inc. 10 6 ITN 8 7 Red Bee Media 8 8 DAZN 7 9 Bloomberg L.P. 7 10 IMG 7

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 BBC 1,351 2 Sky 494 3 ITV 340 4 Channel 4 131 5 Global 127 6 ITN 62 7 Channel 5 54 8 RDF Television 52 9 Hope FM 50 10 Princess Productions 48

6 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Computer software BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Microsoft 49 2 J.P. Morgan 45 3 DNEG 44 4 IBM 36 5 MPC (Moving Picture Company) 24 6 Cisco 12 7 BT Group 7 8 Greenwood Campbell 7 9 Roke 6 10 Intel Corporation 5

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Microsoft 372 2 SAP 88 3 Symantec 42 4 Adobe 42 5 CA Technologies 20 6 Advanced 19 7 Foundry 19 8 IRIS Software 18 9 VMware 18 10 Infor 17

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 7 Design BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Bournemouth University 461 2 J.P. Morgan 82 3 BAE Systems 65 4 DNEG 65 5 Dyson 60 6 BBC 52 7 LV= 51 8 Framestore 46 9 Tesco 41 10 BT Group 39

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Atkins 40 2 Quadrant2Design 30 3 Kesslers International 29 4 Innovate Product Design 21 5 Arup 19 6 Mad River 13 7 Inox Equip 11 8 PDD Group 11 9 Design Bridge 10 10 Empire Design 10

8 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Financial services BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 J.P. Morgan 391 2 LV= 137 3 HSBC 112 4 Nationwide Building Society 104 5 Lloyds Bank 81 6 Barclays 80 7 IBM 49 8 Northern Trust 24 9 Vitality 20 10 Morgan Stanley 16

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 J.P. Morgan 1,612 2 Barclays 571 3 LV= 484 4 Nationwide Building Society 432 5 Lloyds Bank 393 6 HSBC 279 7 American Express 114 8 Citi 109 9 BNY Mellon 89 10 UBS 82

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 9 Higher education BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Bournemouth University 590 2 University of Southampton 44 3 Solent University 24 4 Bournemouth and Poole College 23 5 Arts University Bournemouth 19 6 University of Surrey 18 7 The Open University 17 8 University of the West of England 15 9 University of Portsmouth 13 10 University of Winchester 13

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Bournemouth University 5,190 2 University of Southampton 154 3 Arts University Bournemouth 76 4 University of the West of England 52 5 University of Surrey 51 6 University of Exeter 49 7 The Open University 48 8 University of Bath 48 9 University of Portsmouth 45 10 Oxford Brookes University 41

10 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Hospital and healthcare BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust 96 2 The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS 49 Foundation Trust 3 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust 29 4 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 29 5 University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 21 6 Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 18 7 BMI Healthcare 14 8 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 11 9 Bupa 9 10 Spire Healthcare Group 7

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust 260 2 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust 100 3 South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust 81 4 Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust 70 5 Bupa 62 6 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 59 7 Philips 58 8 Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 50 9 University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 50 10 Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 48

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 11 Hospitality BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Marriott International 45 2 Hilton Worldwide 43 3 TUI UK 19 4 Revolution Bars Group 15 5 Compass Group 14 6 Bournemouth and Poole College 11 7 Harbour Hotels Group 11 8 AFC Bournemouth 10 9 BaxterStorey UK 8 10 Premier Inn 7

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Marriott International 231 2 Hilton Worldwide 219 3 InterContinental Hotels Group 153 4 Platinum Recruitment Consultancy 95 5 Whitbread 80 6 Costa Coffee 74 7 Mitchells & Butlers 58 8 The Deltic Group 52 9 Revolution Bars Group 47 10 Stonegate Pub Company 42

12 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 IT services BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 IBM 98 2 Fujitsu Global 38 3 Oracle Corporation 37 4 British Army 31 5 LV= 29 6 HSBC 24 7 Softcat 22 8 Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust 12 9 The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS 11 Foundation Trust 10 Kingfisher IT Services 9

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 IBM 576 2 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 315 3 Accenture 178 4 Thomson Reuters 106 5 Oracle Corporation 101 6 Capgemini 90 7 Ericsson 88 8 Ordnance Survey 82 9 Computacenter 80 10 Fujitsu 79

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 13 Legal practice BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Trethowans 20 2 VWV 3 3 Siemens 2 4 BNY Mellon 2 5 St John Ambulance 1 6 The Leonardo Trust 1 7 Normanton Chambers 1 8 Harper Macleod 1 9 Brown Rudnick 1 10 Merck Group 1

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Lester Aldridge 150 2 Trethowans 47 3 Shoosmiths 45 4 Blake Morgan 34 5 Humphries Kirk 33 6 Ellis Jones Solicitors 30 7 Crown Prosecution Service 29 8 Moore Blatch 26 9 Clarke Willmott 26 10 Blake Lapthorn 24

14 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Leisure, travel and tourism BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 TUI 26 2 Expedia Group 10 3 Travel Counsellors 8 4 Norwegian Cruise Line 7 5 TAG Group 5 6 Trailfinders 5 7 Secret Escapes 4 8 SLC Representation 4 9 Buffalo Tours 3 10 HRG Worldwide 3

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard) 120 2 BH Live 110 3 Golfbreaks.com 69 4 STA Travel 69 5 Thomas Cook 35 6 Mark Warner 34 7 GLL 33 8 Chessington World of Adventures Resort 31 9 Condor Ferries 30 10 Princess Cruises 30

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 15 Marketing and advertising BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Mindshare 40 2 MediaCom 35 3 Google 25 4 Wavemaker 23 5 Amazon 22 6 Ogilvy 22 7 OMD UK 18 8 BBC 18 9 VCCP 15 10 Dentsu Aegis Network 13

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 MediaCom 188 2 Mindshare 151 3 EIMS 78 4 Ogilvy 68 5 OMD UK 66 6 Thinking Juice 63 7 BBH London 63 8 AKQA 59 9 MEC 59 10 Yell 59

16 Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 Mechanical and industrial engineering BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Dyson 13 2 Leonardo 3 3 Monodraught 3 4 Automated Production 2 5 Kingfisher 2 6 SharkNinja 2 7 One Point Two (China) 1 8 Inflowmatix 1 9 L-com Global Connectivity 1 10 EDMI Europe 1

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Babcock International Group 98 2 3M 69 3 Bosch 32 4 Johnson Controls 26 5 AT&T 15 6 Wartsila 14 7 Parker Hannifin 14 8 Air Bearings 12 9 Stannah 11 10 3T Additive Manufacturing 11

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 17 Media production BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 BBC 180 2 Sky 58 3 ITV 32 4 The Walt Disney Company 22 5 Discovery Inc 11 6 Hawk-Eye Innovations 10 7 IMG 8 8 QVC 8 9 Channel 5 7 10 Little Dot Studios 7

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Bauer Media 98 2 Twofour Group 85 3 Endemol 82 4 ITV 81 5 Lime Pictures 67 6 Fremantle 65 7 Haymarket Media Group 62 8 Passion Pictures 61 9 LoveLove Films 52 10 Press Association 38

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BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 Weber Shandwick 81 2 freuds 45 3 Edelman 39 4 Ketchum 38 5 Red Consultancy 38 6 Hill+Knowlton Strategies 32 7 W Communications 25 8 Grayling 24 9 Fever PR 23 10 DawBell 22

Bournemouth University Top Employers Report 2019-20 21 Sports BU LinkedIn alumni data – current positions only Position Company Number of alumni 1 Sky 46 2 BBC 45 3 AFC Bournemouth 45 4 NHS 22 5 Southampton Football Club 16 6 Sainsbury’s 15 7 IMG 13 8 David Lloyd Leisure 10 9 Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust 10 10 AECC University College 9

BU Live Alumni data – current and previous positions combined Position Company Number of alumni 1 AFC Bournemouth 208 2 London 2012 – Olympic Organising Committee 100 3 IMG (including IMG Media) 95 4 Southampton Football Club 61 5 The Football Association 47 6 Chelsea Football Club 39 7 Watford Football Club 32 8 Reading Football Club 31 9 Arsenal Football Club 26 10 DAZN 25

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