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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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    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.

    • Early careers
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    • Labour market

    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
    • Education - further and higher

    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.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers
    • Latest News

    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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    • Graduates

    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
    • Education - further and higher
    • Latest News

    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
    • Early careers
    • Latest News

    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
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    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
    • Mental health
    • 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.

    • Early careers
    • Education - further and higher
    • Latest News

    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.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers
    • Latest News

    Lack of work experience barring candidates from entry-level jobs

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Jan 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Jan 2024

    Three-quarters of young adults have been rejected from an entry-level job because they do not have enough work experience.

    • Early careers
    • Mental health
    • Education - further and higher

    Young people turning down jobs because of upfront cost

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Jan 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Jan 2024

    The Prince's Trust NatWest Youth Index 2024 finds that some young people are forced to turn down a job becasue of the upfront costs.

    • Candidate experience
    • Early careers
    • Latest News

    RAD Awards 2024: Eye-catching bus campaign wins Work of the Year

    by Jo Faragher 25 Jan 2024
    by Jo Faragher 25 Jan 2024

    An innovative campaign to recruit volunteers to a youth homelessness charity has won Work of the Year at the 2024 RAD Awards. 1931.07

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