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Professional services firm KPMG will recruit about 75,000 graduates worldwide over the next three years, representing a 25% increase in the firm’s historical resourcing target.

The global member firm network has identified a need to take on about 250,000 new hires over the next five years, and graduate recruitment plays an essential role in meeting the firm’s long-term global growth strategy. New hires will be integrated into all of KPMG’s functional areas – audit, tax, advisory, and internal firm services. Continue Reading »

FDM Group is to recruit 1,000 graduates by the end of this year.

The IT graduate employer has just reached its target for the second quarter of 2011 by recruiting 618 graduates in the past seven months.

Graduate trainees are offered Continue Reading »

There is lots of talk about university fees at present. Will the UK move towards the USA system with universities free to charge students what the market will bear for tuition. If so, it would free universities from state control on numbers of students and generally require students to fund their own education. Of course, the universities would provide grants to high calibre students whose parents were of modest means. (Oxford University already supports 30% of it’s undergraduates through their bursary scheme).

But what are the implications of the USA system? In the USA university fees can be as high as £29,000 a year and so a student could emerge from university with a debt approaching £90,000. Continue Reading »

Jaguar Land Rover has doubled the number of graduates it plans to recruit this year.

The company plans to hire 280 graduates in 2011 compared to 135 last year.

The 280 graduates will be hired for Continue Reading »

Research by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol found that law, economics and management were the most valuable subjects for study. The returns on science, technology, engineering and maths were lower and on humanities lower still.

An upper second-class degree Continue Reading »

John Lewis, the leading retailer, is doubling its intake of graduates for 2011 but competition will be fierce. Sophie Milliken, recruitment manager at John Lewis, expects Continue Reading »

When graduates think of a career in HR the tendency is to think of generalist roles or perhaps recruitment, learning and development or equality and diversity. But employers offering HR graduate programmes vary considerably and the role that HR takes in an organisation often depends on the sector in which the organisation operates. Continue Reading »

When it comes to the shortage of engineering graduates the UK has a history and it’s not encouraging. As long ago as 1994 the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) was highlighting the demand for and shortage of engineering graduates.

Taking Stock

In 2006 a Confederation of British Industry (CBI) report entitled “Taking Stock” again emphasised the shortage of graduate engineers. The report found Continue Reading »

A shortage of qualified university and school leavers is holding back economic recovery according to early findings by the Institute of Directors in a poll of members. “A surprising number have vacancies they are unable to fill”, said Mike Harris the institute’s head of skills. “They cite a lack of skills and bad attitude”.

Susie Young, the graduate recruitment manager at Waitrose, part of The John Lewis Partnership, said that Continue Reading »

Over the last few years there has been a great deal of emphasis on the need for more science, engineering and technology graduates. Employers continually complain of a shortage of candidates with qualifications in the STEM subjects, (science, technology, engineering and maths), and yet some of these groups show high levels of unemployment.

For example, the group with the highest unemployment rate in the UK are Continue Reading »