South East Wales businesses invited to venture into new graduate talent scheme in September
Businesses across the Cardiff Capital Region are invited to learn more about an innovative graduate talent programme that will see the training of 60 graduates in key skill sets this autumn. Cardiff Capital Region’s ‘Venture into Digital, Data and Cyber’…
UK students attracted to companies perceived as pandemic winners
This year’s students are more driven by clear paths for career progression, training and development, rather than high future earnings, while gender disparities reveal stark differences in career priorities, according to employer branding experts Universum. Universum’s Annual Talent Research 2021…
Job opportunities for newly qualified architects are greatest in Wales and East Midlands, new research reveals
New survey figures out today show positive signs of job prospects for Welsh graduates and young professionals looking to progress a career in architecture. Almost a third (29.7%) of architectural firms surveyed by SpecifiedBy, the specification-led marketing and product data…
Pivot your existing graduate hiring approach towards something more virtual
James McGill, Vice President International Customer Success at HireVue, considers how employers can use virtual systems to snare the best talent this year With summer almost upon us, thousands of students across the country are preparing to take their first…
Students tell employers: “Tailor student recruitment for diversity and inclusion”
Employers that recruit early talent and want to improve workplace diversity and inclusion (D&I) should tailor their recruitment activities more to students’ economic background, gender and ethnicity according to recent research. With new graduate roles cut by 12% this year…
Survey: flexible working ‘not so important’ for graduate job hunters
Being offered flexible working by an employer is not seen as top priority among recent graduates, Wildgoose survey finds. It was found that only 6% of respondents aged between 21-24 answered that being offered flexible working was ‘essential’ to them….
Five scenarios to engage Millennials and Gen Z in added-value benefits
With youth can come a feeling of invincibility and that can wrongly influence the employee benefits decisions made by Millennials and Generation Z, according to RedArc. The earlier a young workforce appreciates how employers can support them, beyond the paycheque,…
Fledglink app – the ‘LinkedIn for early careers’ – takes flight in the UK
A game changing early careers mobile app – Fledglink – has officially launched in the UK and is already ruffling feathers in the online professional networking space. Whilst the market-leading platform LinkedIn is aimed at professionals with significant industry experience,…