We've worked with a wide range of graduate employers over the last ten years to attract and recruit the best talent. Here you'll find a selection of white papers about some of the key trends as we see them. They provide more detail than we presented at Breakfast News and at the end of each article you'll find the contact details for the speaker if you'd like to talk in a little more depth.
Graduates aren't what they used to be
22nd June 2011
The typical hiring manager of today would have attended university two or three decades ago, and there has been a revolution in higher education since then. If we’re going to engage senior business leaders in graduate recruitment programmes, we must start by understanding the system they remember and the differences with today’s picture.
By Simon Howard
Recruiting for a small planet
13th April 2011
When it comes to integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into recruitment, current activities largely fail to engage talent. In doing so, they also fail to contribute to sustainable business performance. To see where CSR is falling short, and how to solve the problem, we need to start from the beginning.
By Andrew Stephen
Generation Z and the Career Strategist
4th March 2011
'Generational theory' gives us a framework that we can use to look at the youth market. It's far from perfect, but it does provide some valuable recruitment perspective insights into how we can engage with future talent. Perhaps it's worth considering what we mean by 'generation'?
By Graeme Wright