recruiting the top graduate talent

Graduates:

Neil Millett, Marketing Exec

Thursday 6th October

@reedcouk

Recruiting top talent

The recruitment

marketplace

Attracting

graduates

Retaining

top talent

1960

1995

Britain’s

favourite

recruiter.

Today

The graduate recruitment

marketplace

647,000Undergraduates enrolled in 2016

28,883graduate registrations

reed.co.uk in 2016:

149,572graduate vacancies

reed.co.uk in 2016:

£28,000average salary sought

The Class of 2016:

£27,966average salary offered

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30%

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Up to £10k £10k-£20k £20k-£30k £30k+

Grad salaries offered: 2016 YTD

1. Education (18,430 jobs added)

2. IT & Telecoms (7,595)

3. Retail (7,057)

4. Engineering (5,750)

5. Health & Medicine (5,292)

Grad jobs available: 2016 YTD

1. Scientific (+36%)

2. Motoring & Automotive (+33%)

3. FMCG (+31%)

4. Education (+24%)

5. Retail (+22%)

Grad jobs available: Fastest movers 2016

1. IT & Telecoms (6,968 new registrations)

2. Accountancy (6,053)

3. Education (5,193)

4. Banking (3,656)

5. Media & Creative (3,599)

Grad candidates available: 2016 YTD

1. Apprenticeships

2. Charity & Voluntary

3. Banking

4. Engineering

5. Construction

Grad candidates available: Fastest movers 2016

We surveyed 2,500

graduates…

1. To benefit my

career prospects

Why did you go to university?

2. Personal interest

in the subject

Why did you go to university?

3. It was essential for

my preferred career

Why did you go to university?

We surveyed 250

businesses…

Attracting top

graduate talent

3 out of 4organisations have hired a graduate

In the last 12 months

40%of organisations run an initiative once a year

focused solely on graduate recruitment

1. A high-achieving

mindset

What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?

What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?

2. A relevant

qualification

What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?

3. Academic

performance

Graduate trainee accountant says working for PwC got in the way of social life in an email to colleagues about his “relief” at losing job

Is this the ultimate millennial sign-off? Sacked graduate bows out of job at top accountancy firm PwC with email complaining that the work was boring and got in the way of his fun

Moaning millennials let down their generation

Changing how we target graduate talent

Removing academic

qualifiers

Blind

CVs & applications

One-day

assessments

89%of millennials we surveyed believe it’s

important to have a diverse workforce

A changing

hiring process

38% Have used flexible interviewing

(i.e. use of Skype, video interviews)

Of the 250 organisations we surveyed:

22%Have used personality tests at

some stage of interviewing

Of the 250 organisations we surveyed:

22%Haven’t trialled any of these

methods

80%of organisations have found it more

challenging to hire graduates in 2016

than previous years

22%of organisations will increase their graduate

salary offering in the next 12 months

What do graduates

really want?

1. Salary

2. Location

3. Career progression, training and

development

Top three most important things Gen Z (17-18 year olds)

look for in a job:

“Good career prospects may enable me to achieve a

higher salary in future.”

“What’s important is the chance to improve skills

and make progress within the business”

Generation Z focus group response

“I think we will have an opportunity to learn from

those in other generations who will know more than

us allowing us to learn and improve from them”

Generation Z focus group response

92%of organisations offer induction

to new graduate recruits

3-6 monthsIt takes graduates

to be fully operational and integrated

into a business

What marks out an

employer of choice?

95%of Gen Z believe it’s important for an

employer to value corporate social responsibility

93%of Gen Z believe it’s important for an

employer to offer flexible working hours

99%of Gen Z believe it’s important that an

employer cares about health and happiness

Why hire a graduate?

“They are creative

and energetic”

“Bright, keen and

mouldable talent”

“A means to train and develop

individuals we believe have the skills

to be future leaders”

Thank you

Call us: 0845 241 9293

reed.co.uk/recruiterFor more information on our research please email:

neil.millett@reedonline.co.uk

@reedcouk