Employers can use XpertHR to assess graduate recruitment and starting salaries. Find out about the general state of the graduate labour market and whether there is growth or decline in graduate vacancies and graduate starting salaries. We reveal how employers go about attracting the best candidates and the selection methods used.
This week's news in brief
Average graduate salaries are expected to reach more than £21,000 this year, with top-of-the-range jobs attracting up to £36,000
Six months after finishing their degrees 38 per cent of former students find themselves in non graduate jobs
Demand for graduate recruits has started to recover after the two-year downturn, and is set to increase even further in 2004-05.
HMV is pioneering retail-specific psychometric assessment tests to help select candidates for its graduate training programme.
Developed by PSL, the...
Carl Gilleard travelled to South Africa to speak at the inaugural conference of the recently formed South African Graduate Recruiters Association, held on 24-26 November in Johannesburg. Here he describes his trip
Education and skills secretary, Charles Clarke, has written to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) seeking advice on...
Google, the internet search engine, has been named the ‘World’s Coolest Company’ by the Unshrink network of international business leaders....
The Conservatives have vowed to pay students up to £2,000 to take up under-subscribed university courses such as chemistry, physics,...
The House of Fraser solves its IT recruitment problems by paying undergraduate IT students retainers to join the firm after...
Without urgent action to attract young people, council services could grind to a halt, according to the Employers’ Organisation for Local Government (EO).
Should OH be an all-degree profession? Anne Harriss and Cynthia Atwell, agree to disagree
Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline has set up a pilot scheme to enable it to select the best graduate candidates before they’ve...
In this series, we delve into the XpertHR reference manual to find essential information relating to one of our features. This month's topic...
They’ve spent thousands on university. Yet more students than ever are taking on jobs for which they are over-qualified.
Increasing...
