Sarah,

Sorry-I can't help you on strategies, but if you are looking at recruiting within HR I know a lot of graduates with experience read these postings, so maybe worth adding your email. I realise that this is only a short term solution.

I for one have experienced difficulty in finding employers willing to take on Graduates with some experience as I am neither considered a graduate or fully experienced.

Good Luck.

Hello,

I am a graduate with a 2:1 in Business Administration & Human Resource Management.  I graduated in 2005 and since then I have attained 12 months recruitment experience together with a further 6 months HR experience within a blue chip company.  I am certainly interested in any businesses looking to devlope graduates with some HR experience under their belt.

From my point of view I search for jobs through this website and other agency sites, however I have found recruitment consultancies to be extremely ineffective in many cases.  Short term solutions to your problem would be to look at specific graduate job sites such as GRB - Graduate Recruitment Bureau.  You could also contact large recruitment agencies with HR consultants as I am sure many graduates will have signed up to them- I have signed up to some of the big ones.  

Jonathan

Hi Sarah,

My personal view having done this a couple of times, is to ditch your campus based grad recruitment scheme altogether and concentrate solely on the 2nd jobbers. Campus based schemes are never commercially 'efficient' and rarely provide an ongoing talent pool.

As far as second jobbers are concerned, look to recruit them as you would any other experienced hire - from an HR perspective I would tend to use Totaljobs and Changeboard as my principle job boards but in all cases use both as a conduit to your own web based system on your company web site.

Mark Gilbertson

www.peaktalent.co.uk

Hi

Have you considered turning the model on its head?
You have existing relationships with a university (or more) Offer summer work experience to second year under graduates - this gives work exp at low cost, gives you an extended time to look at the individual etc.

To them it provides valuable income and work experience.

This has advantages over grad second jobbers as their salery expectations will be lower.

All you would need to do is ensure you had suitable work that could be undertook at these times. Remember this is not just limited to summer time - many undergraduates would work one or two days a week around their course schedule.

Mike
http://www.rapidbi.com/bir

A website I have used to try to pick up qualified people is jobs.ac.uk - it is aimed at education primarily, but it has a reputation for 'real' jobs and doesn't suffer from the 'Hey! Exciting opportunity for hardworking graduate! £++++ neg' that means a £14K + commission monkey job that most recruitment sites do.  Something like 80% of people using the site have a good first degree and a similar percentage of the jobs are looking for people with degree-level or above experience.