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Early careers

Early careers recruitment includes graduates, apprentices, trainees and any resourcing activity where candidates are at the initial stages of their career.


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    It’s August and ‘lazy girl’ job searches are on the rise. What’s the connection?

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Aug 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Aug 2024

    HR in August is all about minimum temperatures, clothing, holidays, temp cover, interns and free lollipops. Oh, and ‘lazy girl’ jobs. Whatever they are.

    • Apprenticeships
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    Government launches Back to Work plan to tackle economic inactivity

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jul 2024

    Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has set out what the new Labour government's Back to Work plan will entail.

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    Women make up most graduates joining counter-terrorism roles

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Jul 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Jul 2024

    Women made up the majority of trainees recruited into counter-terrorism policing via a new graduate scheme.

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    Top 10 HR questions May 2024: Performance and redundancy pay

    by Brightmine 4 Jun 2024
    by Brightmine 4 Jun 2024

    May 2024's most sought after FAQs on Brightmine include how to manage poor performance and calculating redundancy pay.

    • Latest News
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    Reform UK proposes ‘employer immigration tax’

    by Rob Moss 30 May 2024
    by Rob Moss 30 May 2024

    Reform UK would introduce an ‘employer immigration tax’ to cure the UK’s ‘deadly addiction’ to cheap overseas labour, Richard Tice announces.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers
    • Latest News

    Tories pledge to scrap ‘rip-off’ degrees to fund apprenticeships

    by Jo Faragher 29 May 2024
    by Jo Faragher 29 May 2024

    The Conservatives will close poor-performing university courses and use the funding to support apprenticeships.

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    Most employers back guaranteed apprenticeships for young people

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024

    Most employers support an 'apprenticeships guarantee' for young people up to the age of 24, the CIPD has found.

    • Early careers
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    Demand for UK graduates remains weak

    by Adam McCulloch 17 May 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 17 May 2024

    A new poll from specialist recruitment firm Robert Walters found that 62% of graduates said they were struggling to find a relevant professional position in their chosen field.

    • Early careers
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    • Education - further and higher

    Graduate visa review finds benefits for skilled worker recruitment

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024

    The Home Office should retain the graduate visa in its current form, the Migration Advisory Committee has recommended in its graduate visa review.

    • Social mobility
    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers

    Student employers: ‘reform apprenticeship levy to boost youth employment’

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 May 2024

    Institute of Student Employers says the next government should focus on the apprenticeship levy to help increase youth employment.

    • Social mobility
    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers

    How Virgin Media O2 offers early careers opportunities for all

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Apr 2024

    Virgin Media O2 was crowned the overall winner at the 2023 Personnel Today Awards in recognition of its early careers programmes.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Early careers

    Graduates feel full office attendance is expected

    by Jo Faragher 16 Apr 2024
    by Jo Faragher 16 Apr 2024

    Most graduates feel office attendance is expected by their employers, according to new research from Prospects at Jisc.

    • Early careers
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    No improvement in youth inactivity rate

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Mar 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Mar 2024

    The youth economic inactivity rate continues to rise significantly, unlike other age groups, according to the ONS.

    • Early careers
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    • Education - further and higher

    Young people’s early career blighted by poor mental health

    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2024
    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2024

    Workers in their early 20s are more likely to be not working due to ill health than those in their early 40s, says the Resolution Foundation.

    • Latest News
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    • Education - further and higher

    Increase in young people not in work or education

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Feb 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Feb 2024

    The number of young people not in work, education or training at the end of 2023 increased, ONS reveals.

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