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Early Careers

Why Gen Z could be your organisation’s biggest asset

Believing younger generations are inherently lazier, ruder, less respectful, and more prone to making bad choices, is seemingly hard-wired into the aging process. Bemoaning the ‘youth of today’ has apparently been part of the older generations’ playbook since time and memorial. A quote attributed to Socrates reads ‘The children now love luxury; they have bad …

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You’ve met great students on campus and virtually – now what?

Provide a consistent engagement experience, regardless of introduction method.  As we approach busy season in the world of graduate recruitment and Early Careers teams are finalising their on-campus plans, one question keeps popping up – ‘how do you capture candidate details quickly when meeting in-person or online, and how do you then keep engagement going?’ …

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How do you take your candidate experience from good to excellent and cut through the noise?

Support your early careers candidates with a personalised hiring journey that adds real value If you recruit in the Early Careers space, typically you’ve set a multi-stage hiring journey which will take several hours to complete over a period of weeks or potentially months. You’ll have designed your hiring journey to achieve the best outcomes …

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Right support at the right time: empowering your future talent during the hiring journey

A few weeks ago I hosted a panel webinar with three experts in the early careers space. Olwen Watson, Global Emerging Talent Selection Operations Lead at HSBC, Grace Clayton, Head of Volume and Early Talent Assessment at Cappfinity and Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green, Faculty Head of Award and Progression Gaps at Manchester Metropolitan University, joined me …

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If you don’t hire apprentices, what does that mean for your social mobility agenda?

The value of recruiting apprentices and embedding them into your business For so many years, apprenticeships have struggled to throw off their ‘less than’ image, but it’s beginning to feel as though that misconception is firmly on the move. The impact of the Baker Clause on careers education between school years 8 and 13 should start to …

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The early careers landscape has changed: how to engage and support candidates in 2023

2023 will be the first year in a few where we’ll be seeing in the new year without the threat of Covid – and its restrictions and lockdowns – looming over us. That’s not to say we’re entering less challenging times; you could reasonably argue that 2023 is already set to be more difficult than …

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