Graduate Unemployment Conundrum
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 »
pwc talent academy success story
The pwc five-day residential talent academy aims to develop the employability skills of students early on in their degree.This year’s event finished last week.
Fifty-four students Continue Reading »
The pressure is on to find that graduate job.
The pressure has come on this years graduate leavers as they compete with those who left university in 2008 and 2009 for places on scarce graduate trainee schemes. Continue Reading »
Can it really be that bad!
A survey of 16,000 final-year students by High Flyers Research has found that 64% of them are not expecting to join the job market this year. Apparently, only one in five final year students expects to leave university with a job.
To make matters worse, Continue Reading »
L’Oreal’s UK graduate business game winner
A team from Newcastle University has won the opportunity to represent the UK in a business game – Brandstorm – in Paris, used by international cosmetics company L’Oreal to find talented graduates.
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Proctor & Gamble goes virtual
Proctor & Gamble is developing digital recruitment techniques as graduates make more use of digital space for their job search. Madalyn Brooks, P & G’s HR director says that they are trying to to get employee engagement earlier on, and in a very different place from that which P & G has been used to using.
Apart from conducting their first Continue Reading »
Are undergraduates unrealistic on job markets?
There is lots and lots of media attention on schools, universities and the results they achieve. In state sector schools everything is measured, on the basis that if it isn’t targeted and results measured then standards will fall. As a result, schools spend a great deal of time preparing students for tests that impact their position in school league tables. Often more difficult school subjects get dropped because to do less well may damage the school’s league position. The effect of this is, Continue Reading »
Graduates are not getting the jobs they want
Nearly six in ten new graduates are not working in a job related to their degree, according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
The survey of 700 workers who have graduated in the past two years, shows that 58% gave the reason for this as being unable to find a suitable job, while 28% claimed their degree Continue Reading »
‘No Jerk’ Hiring Policies – Do They Work ?
This post comes courtesy of news@hereisthecity.com It will be of interest to any graduate who is considering a career in The City. Much has been written recently about firms like Barclays Capital, who have so-called ‘no jerk’ hiring policies. According to no less an authority than The Financial Times, BarCap takes this philosophy ’seriously from the top executive suites on down’.
But how does this policy manifest itself ? Continue Reading »
Moving away from the 2.1 filter
A number of companies, including npower and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, have concluded that using the 2.1 degree as a filter for assessing candidates (eliminating applicants without at least a 2.1) is flawed. This should not come as a surprise. Hard as it is for Continue Reading »