Do employers really value degrees?
Whilst recruitment and selection systems often discard graduate applicants who didn’t manage to get a 2.1 this conflicts with what business owners really want according to the findings of recent research. Continue Reading »
Graduate Employment at ‘15 Year Low’
The 2010 UK Graduates Career Survey conducted by High Flyers Research publicized a number of worrying statistics on last year’s graduate employment. In total, 16,114 students were questioned – equating to 1/5th of 2010 graduates from the 30 universities that took part in the study.
The survey revealed that just 36% of graduating students felt that they would Continue Reading »
The Role of the Interview in the Selection Process
Whilst there is a range of tools which can be used to distinguish between candidates, interviews remain the most common and the interview process is expected by both candidates and managers. This is because, as well as providing information to assess past performance, interviews also provide an opportunity for the interviewer and interviewee to meet face to face and exchange information.
For the candidate, the interview is an opportunity to: Continue Reading »
Female graduates win the recruitment stakes for top jobs.
Why is it that female graduates are increasingly more successful than male graduates in getting jobs in the professions and top companies? Does it flow naturally from the fact that there are more female graduates? I suppose that statistically the laws of probability apply and the one naturally leads to the other. But, I’m inclined to think Continue Reading »