Milkround announces exclusive partnership with Inspire Motivate Engage cementing their vision of providing career confidence.

Partnership with IME mentoring service offers Milkround users the chance to become part of this national mentoring programme.

Milkround is delighted to announce an exclusive partnership with Inspire Motivate Engage to offer a mentoring scheme to Milkround subscribers.

The partnership fits with Milkround’s vision of giving students and graduate career confidence by pairing IME’s skilled mentors with Milkround users who would like to learn from an expert.

The IME national mentoring programme supports young unemployed people aged 16 to 24 to explore career choices and improve their employability.

The programme matches the young person’s aspirations to the mentor’s field of expertise.This allows the mentor to share valuable career insights with the aim of helping the young person improve their CV and interview technique to increase their competitive edge.

Those who successfully complete the IME mentor programme will be awarded the IME award, which includes nationally recognised learning credits Level 1&2 to help them get ahead.

The scheme is set to launch at the end of February. Anyone interested in getting involved will be able to sign up via Milkround. To find out more, register with Milkround at http://www.milkround.com.

IME CEO Claire Atkinson said: “IME is delighted to partner with Milkround. This partnership will allow us to help more young people in need of career advice and support whilst getting one step closer to employment. Together we will make a difference to the lives and prospects for young unemployed people across the UK.”

Milkround Marketing Manager Alex Sydney added: “This is a really exciting partnership for Milkround. We want to give our students and graduates real insights into the world of work and the confidence they need to get a job. We are proud to be working with IME, offering our users the opportunity to improve their employability and our employees the opportunity to become involved in the mentoring scheme, reaffirming our commitment to provide career confidence”.

More about the IME mentoring scheme

• 98% of IME mentoring relationships have been rated by both parties as successful and are still on-going after three months.
• 95% of members use the online mentoring platform on a weekly basis.
• 94% of the mentors plan to introduce the young person to opportunities within their company via its graduate training or internship programme.

IME mentors are business professionals who want to make a difference from just one hour per week. Mentoring can take place face to face or online via the IME mentoring platform, making it easy for mentors to take part and fit around their busy schedules.

Each mentor receives online accredited management training the IME programme, which helps the mentor to develop their management skills and learn how to facilitate growth in others, thus allowing them to achieve an accreditation while making a difference.
IME is always looking for new mentors to join the programme and works with companies and business professionals across the UK. Those interested should visit http://www.inspiremotivateandengage.org.

For small and medium sized enterprises the recruitment process can represent a daunting process. Recruiting the right candidate at the right price and quickly is not always as simple as it may seem. There are an abundance of ways companies can advertise jobs in an effort to find that right individual, however if the wrong recruitment campaign is chosen, you may find yourself spending a lot of time re-advertising, re-interviewing or simply employing the wrong person. The process can represent a big financial risk stretching resources to the max!

Traditional methods of advertising such as print can often prove ineffective and online account managed services may be too expensive for small and medium sized businesses. Larger companies advertising on these platforms are regularly able to offer larger salaries and incentives which make these roles more favorable to the top candidates. Advertising alongside larger companies with greater budgets and more expertise may cast a shadow over smaller campaigns.

Here at Milkround we’ve recognised the demand for a cost effective and quick solution to recruitment for a typical SME. Milkround’s Recruiters Direct allows even the smallest company to promote jobs which will reach the same number and calibre of job seekers as the larger ones. It’s our simple and effective answer to advertising a position to a huge audience for a single one off payment; the ultimate solution for the time poor businesses with limited resources that need to recruit and fast!

For a single one off payment starting from as little as £320; visit http://recruiters.milkround.com/ your package includes:

1. Your branded advert and company profile live on www.Milkround.com for two weeks. The site receives over 500,000 visits from students and graduates every month and has been voted ‘the most used graduate recruitment website’ for the past five years*.

2. An email to our exclusive database of over 750,000 students and graduates.

3. Receive all applications directly to your email or to your preferred URL.

4. As an extra incentive we’re now including an onsite button in our standard package which is completely free of charge! To take advantage of this offer please complete the onsite booking and then email your button and URL with the subject line: 

‘Free Button’ to: support@milkround.com Please include your company name within the email.

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- Please note that this offer is only valid until 31st January 2013

Upload you advert today at http://recruiters.milkround.com/ and target the most talented students and graduate talent!

*high fliers research 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Milkround continues to grow its audience as more than 280,000 graduates and students visited http://www.milkround.com in November 2012 – averaging nearly 20,000 daily – in figures just confirmed for the graduate recruitment website.

In its annual November ABC audit, visits to Milkround increased by 13,656 or three percent on the same period in 2011 and unique browsers were up 17,390 to 283,459 – a rise of seven percent. Page impressions were up 18,033 on last November to 2,77,808 for the month.

The figures cap off a successful 2012 for Milkround which saw the website scoop an unprecedented fifth-year-in-a-row of being the most-widely-used graduate recruitment website according to The UK Graduate Careers Survey by High Fliers Research.

ABC audited data provides the online media industry with a trusted and robust currency on which media space can be bought and sold, and delivers to the market independent assurance that a website is attracting the size of audience it claims. The figures independently verify Milkround’s traffic figures to industry agreed standards as set by JICWEBS*.

The ABC certificate issued for November 2012 confirms:

• Monthly Visits: 549,913 (up 13,656 on November 2011 audit)
• Monthly Unique Browsers: 283,459 (up 17,390 on November 2011 audit)
• Monthly Page impressions: 2,777,808 (up 18,033 on November 2011 audit)

Milkround General Manager, Jenni Joplin, said: “I’m delighted to see Milkround’s audience confirmed as growing year-on-year by auditors ABC, especially after maintaining our status as the leading graduate recruitment site for a fifth year running. Over the last 12 months we’ve been focused on our vision to provide students and graduates with career confidence, and the next 12 months promise to be an exciting time for Milkround as we make good on our promise.

“We will also continue our drive for quality candidates from all disciplines to ensure our exclusive database of more than 700,000 students and graduates remains a crucial talent pool”

“Jan Pitt, Group Executive Director, Client Services, ABC commented: “Congratulations to Milkround for another impressive year on year performance. Milkround’s ongoing commitment to reporting with ABC is setting the standard within the recruitment industry, bringing transparency and clarity which is great news for media buyers across the sector.”

View the certificate online:

http://www.abc.org.uk/certificates/18522778.pdf

 

 

 

After lengthy deliberation a panel of industry experts from the graduate recruitment and social media sectors yesterday decided the shortlist for the General Awards categories.

The Social Media Graduate Recruitment Conference & Awards event is all about recognising excellence in the use of social media for graduate recruitment purposes and we were interested to see how the market has developed over the last 12 months. It would seem that many organisations are now on top of their

 Facebook Career Page,  hence the high volume of entries shortlisted for ‘Best use of a SoMe platform’, and the lack of quality entries for the likes of ‘Blogger’ and ‘Twitter’ suggests many organisations are unsure of how to use these options successfully in their media  mix.

This goes to underline yet again the need for the conference which takes place the morning of the awards ceremony.

This year’s shortlist for the General Awards reads as follows:

Best use of Twitter in a graduate recruitment campaign:

• KPM
• Telefonica

Best use of blogger relations in a graduate recruitment campaign: 

• Enterprise Rent A Car
• Grant Thornton

 Best use of a SoMe platform in a graduate recruitment campaign:

• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• European Union
• Freshfields
• Gazprom
• HM Prison Service
• KPMG
• National Health Service

Best use of mobile in a graduate recruitment campaign:

• Barclays
• Deutsche Bank
• Thales

Best use of video in a graduate recruitment campaign:

• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• Thales
• Wm Morrison Supermarkets

The Shortlist for the Grand Prix winner for 2012-13, as chosen by the judging team include:

• Deloitte
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Grant Thornton
• Telefonica
• Thales

The General Awards will be recognised alongside the Sector Awards (as voted for in a student survey) at the event in January. To remind you, the sector finalists are:

Sector Finalists for 2012-13:

Professional Services:

• Deloitte
• Ernst &Young
• PwC
• Teach First

We hope to see you on 10^th January next year, to book a ticket for the awards, or the conference please visit http://www.somegradawards.co.uk/

Or contact: Mike Roberts, MR AdComms, Event Director – Graduate Recruitment Social Media Conference & Awards,

(e) mike@mradcomms.co.uk

(m) 07775 804 257