Choose Birmingham

Why to chose Birmingham as the city to start your career......
 
With its accessibility, diversity, international outlook and the attraction of the quality of life it offers, Birmingham has a growing appeal as the place to work, live, study and play.
 

Originally the powerhouse of the industrial revolution, Birmingham is now the home to the UK’s leading financial and professional services community outside of London. The sector employs over 100,000 individuals with the BEIC economic review predicating this to increase to 120,000 by 2012.

Two of Britain’s leading four banks have there founding roots in Birmingham and today the city continues this tradition with a wealth of highly talented banking specialists. This is alongside nine of the top ten UK accountancy firms, 200 law firms including seven of the top 25, the two largest sets of barrister’s chambers in the country and around 50 major property firms all having a presence in the city as well as it being one of Europe’s largest insurance markets.

But as a dynamic and vibrant cosmopolitan city, Birmingham offers much more than just a fantastic place work.
 

Along side its world-renowned venues, rich heritage and cultural scene, significant investment and development over the last twenty has created a city of high quality living quarters, pedestrianised streets, spacious public squares, stylish shopping malls, bustling nightspots and swish entertainment plazas.

The redevelopment of the city centre canal network has led to many new prestigious apartment buildings, offering great views, a secluded environment, coupled with the latest hi-tech specifications to provide fantastic living accommodation on the doorstep of the city centre.
 

The city boasts a full range of entertainment diversions, from comedy clubs to cinemas, theatre presentations to pop concerts, casinos to jazz clubs, popular bars, restaurants with cuisine from around the globe. Brindleyplace, Broad Street, the Mailbox and the Arcadian centre host the majority of the city’s continental-style bars, restaurants and nightclubs, but there are many other gems of eating establishments and night-time destinations to be found throughout the city and beyond. 

You can learn even more about the wonders that Birmingham has to offer at the GraduateBirmingham.com and VisitBirmingham.com websites.