The changing face of student recruitment

Over the past year or so, the UK’s major accounting and professional services firms have all introduced innovative programmes targeting A-level leavers and apprentices as alternatives to traditional graduate recruitment. Following her recent triumph at the 2012 TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards, Ri5 caught up with Alison Heron, KPMG’s head of student recruitment, to find out more about the brave new world of entry-level recruitment ... more or comment here

The changing face of student recruitment

Milkround most widely-used graduate recruitment site

According to The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012 (produced by High Fliers Research), Milkround has retained its position as the most widely-used graduate recruitment website on campus for the fifth year running ... more or comment here

CIPD RMAs – 2012 shortlist revealed

The shortlisted entries for this year’s CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards have now been revealed, with all the winners due to be announced on the evening of Wednesday 11th July at The Brewery in London ... more or comment here

Undergraduate job applications at record levels

Applications to employers from final-year students due to leave the UK’s leading universities this summer have reached record levels, according to The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012 ... more or comment here

New joint offering from TheGraduate and CVSeeMe

TMDR specialist jobsite TheGraduate has joined forces with video-enabled graduate site CVSeeMe to create a new graduate recruitment offering ... more or comment here

Campaign aims to boost young people’s employability

The CIPD has launched a new ‘Learning to Work’ campaign designed to “generate a step-change in employers’ engagement with young people” and thus help boost the latter’s employability and job prospects ... more or comment here

TARGETjobs sharpens focus on top thirty universities

Two separate research reports suggest that TARGETjobs is the fastest-growing graduate job-board in terms of its use by and popularity among students at the UK’s top thirty universities ... more or comment here

International ambitions prompt interest in overseas studies

According to a recent survey of school-leavers and undergraduates by Graduate Prospects, the idea of studying abroad is becoming increasingly popular, with a quarter of respondents keen to build an international career ... more or comment here

Positive start for new entrant to graduate market

Launched earlier this year by the Jobs4 Network, new graduate and student recruitment site Grads.co.uk reports an encouraging take-up from employers plus positive feedback from its target audience ... more or comment here 1 comment

Recruiter Awards – all the results

A packed Grosvenor house was the glitzy setting for the 2012 Recruiter Awards for Excellence – the first to be held since the Recruiter brand returned to the Redactive fold ... more or comment here

Prospects retains position in student/graduate market

Following publication of the latest audited ABCe figures, Graduate Prospects has retained its position as the UK’s most-visited student and graduate careers site ... more or comment here 1 comment

Graduates vs apprentices

This was the highly topical theme of TARGETjobs’ latest Breakfast News session, reflecting the burgeoning interest in apprentices across all sectors of industry and commerce and the consequent implications for graduate recruitment ... more or comment here 1 comment

The month in HE

The latest in our regular series covering developments in and around the graduate recruitment marketplace ... more or comment here

GTI Media partners with Step on work experience

GTI Media has announced a new partnership with Step (the UK’s leading provider of student placement and graduate internship opportunities) designed to promote the positive benefits of work experience to undergraduates and raise the awareness of work experience among universities, employers and government agencies ... more or comment here

Students predict fall in university applications

In a recent survey of students and graduates by Milkround, over 80% of respondents thought that raising tuition fees would have a negative impact on the number of university applicants. And, perhaps of equal concern, more than half felt the degree they were currently studying or had obtained wasn’t worth the money ... more or comment here 1 comment

Unpaid internships: Milburn expresses concerns

Writing in the spring edition of HECSU’s Graduate Market Trends, Alan Milburn – the coalition government’s independent reviewer of social mobility – voices his reservations over the implications of unpaid internships ... more or comment here 1 comment

Report underlines value of work experience

A new report (from the Education and Employers Taskforce, the CIPD and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills) has identified a clear link between gaining work experience while at school and enjoying enhanced career prospects in later life ... more or comment here

Fourth conference charts huge growth of social media

The UK’s fourth annual Social Media in Recruitment conference, held at London’s Congress Centre on Thursday 19th April, demonstrated yet again how far social media has come in the three years since the inaugural event – and how much potential it has to shape the future development of the recruitment industry ... more or comment here

Google heads new Guardian UK 300 rankings

According to the newly published Guardian UK 300 listings of the organisations that students most want to work for, Google has taken the top spot, followed by BBC TV and GlaxoSmithKline… and if you’d like to know where your organisation stacks up among this year’s top 300, keep reading ... more or comment here 3 comments

Recognition for top undergraduate talent

On Friday 13th April, a dozen of the UK’s brightest students were presented with TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards by broadcaster and former cabinet minister Michael Portillo at the East Wintergarden in London’s Docklands ... more or comment here

More A-levels for shop-floor workers

Health food store Holland & Barrett has become the latest high-street employer to serve up A-levels for shop-floor workers, following McDonald’s and Starbucks, writes Telegraph jobs editor Louisa Peacock ... more or comment here

Awards aim to celebrate best in recruitment industry

Next up on the industry’s busy awards front are the 2012 Recruiter Awards, designed to celebrate excellence across all areas of recruitment. These are due to take place on Wednesday 2nd May at London’s Grosvenor House, with comedian/presenter/actor Rufus Hound headlining the evening’s entertainment. To see whether your organisation has been shortlisted, and/or to book your place at this high-profile event, read on ... more or comment here

2012 Guardian UK 300 – update

In view of the considerably increased number-crunching involved following record responses from students this year, GTI Media has decided not to go ahead with the launch event for the 2012 edition of the Guardian UK 300, originally planned for Sadler’s Wells on Monday 16th April. However you’ll be able to see the full listings of 2012’s most popular graduate employers on Ri5 very soon ... more or comment here

KPMG takes top prize at TARGETjobs awards

At the eighth annual TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards, held at London’s Grosvenor House on Wednesday 4th April, KPMG took the night’s top award for graduate employer of the year, pipping IBM and Barclays Capital in the process ... more or comment here

The month in HE

Our latest round-up of developments in and around the graduate recruitment arena ... more or comment here