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The High Fliers Research predict a promising year for graduate recruitment

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High Fliers Research recently published their annual insights into the Graduate recruitment Market in 2013. Their findings are based on the research of the vacancies and starting salaries at 100 of the UK’s best known and most successful employers.

Prospects for 2013 are predicted to be bright with graduate vacancies expected to rise by 2.7% year on year. The report suggests that the largest growth is expected within the public and retail sectors and with engineering and industrial companies.

Despite an optimistic forecast for the 2011/2012 recruitment season – entry-level vacancies fell by 0.8% compared with the previous year. The biggest cuts were seen at accounting and professional service firms and also investment banks which were down by 1,200 places.

Three-quarters of the graduate vacancies advertised this year by City investment banks and half the training contracts offered by the leading law firms are likely to be filled by graduates who have already completed work experience with the employer which gives added emphasis on students and graduates to partake in internships.

It’s perhaps no surprise to hear that over four-fifths of the UK’s leading graduate employers have confirmed they are offering paid work experience programmes for students and recent graduates this year – a record 11,387 places are available.

Taking graduates on as paid interns represents a risk free approach to finding suitable candidates to hire as permanent employees. This is something we have noticed here at Milkround. With more graduates willing to accept these positions as the need for industry experience far outweighs the need for substantial wages in such a competitive market.
With the High Fliers Research report predicting an increase in graduate opportunities there will no doubt be added competition in the market from the leading recruiters for the top student and graduate talent. Recruiters will have to move fast to ensure they don’t miss out on the UK’s brightest prospects.

Site traffic increases to The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers table on Milkround

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More visitors to Milkround are checking who has made The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers annual listing year-on-year.

The 2012-13 listing has attracted nearly 95,000 visits since its publication on site in September, compared with 75,000 viewing the 2011-12 listing in the equivalent period last year – an increase of 27 percent.

Some 5.1 percent of all visits to Milkround are to view Times Top 100 pages for the 2012-13 listing, compared to 4.2 percent when the 2011-12 listing was published.

Total pageviews have also increased. The 2012-13 listing has attracted 2.8 percent of all pageviews since publication in September. The 2011-12 listing attracted 2.3 percent of pageviews over the same period the previous year.

Being listed in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers is hugely attractive for candidates, but you can also add your branding to the table page even if you aren’t listed. Speak to your account manager for more information.

You can view The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2012-13 on Milkround here:

http://www.milkround.com/times-top-100-graduate-employers/

Social Media Week: Social Recruiting & Gen Y #gradsocrec

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If you haven’t heard about it before you need to!  Social Media Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world on emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries.  If you’re in London it’s a must attend occasion, with various exciting events happening across the capital.   You can also follow the discussion on Twitter #smwldn

“Social Media Week does not disappoint. It is a real-world manifestation of some of the best that new technology has to offer – ideas, strategies and insights shared by the people who are shaping the future” Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer, Fast Company.

We’re very excited at Milkround to be hosting our own Social Media Week event: Social Recruiting & Gen Y.  It’s happening on Thursday 16th February and it’s completely free to attend.

The breakfast event will take place between 8.30-10.30am, at our headquarters in Wapping, and will focus on Gen Y and social media in recruitment. We will be presenting key findings from our recent Social Media survey, as well as hosting a key panel consisting of thought leaders from the industry.  The panel will give a brief overview of their experience in social recruiting and answer any questions you may have about integrating social media into your campaigns.

If you’re interested in graduate recruitment and social media this is a must attend event. 

Schedule:

8.30-9.00: Networking (breakfast will be provided)

9.00-9.15: Intro to Milkround and case study by Hyundai

9.15-9.45: Social Media Survey and Q&A presented by Anne-Lise from Milkround and         Darren from aia.

9.45-10.30: Panel discussion – chaired by Ben Nunn at ThirtyThree

Panel Members:
Ben Nunn (Chair) – Head of Digital ThirtyThree

Having worked in the recruitment communications industry for just over 16 years– the last 12 of which have been in the Digital arena, Ben has a broad range of experience and knowledge that aid in his current position leading the Digital team at ThirtyThree.

Richard Waite - Resourcing Brand and Campus Senior Officer at Grant Thornton 

Richard has 5 years experience in graduate recruitment within large accountancy firms.  In his current role, Richard has been responsible for creating and delivering Grant Thornton’s social media recruitment strategy covering their trainee blog, facebook and twitter. Alongside his social media responsibilities, Richard has developed and currently manages their campus attraction strategy and trainee recruitment brand.

Dominic Sumners – Director OME      

Dominic is the Founder and MD of OnlineMediaExperts (OME), which was the UK’s first digital recruitment ad agency. OME help many of the country’s biggest recruiters on their digital strategy including candidate attraction, user experience and employer brand. OME’s clients include Dixons, Carphone Warehouse, LIDL, Pizza Express and Kenexa. He fundamentally believes that social media programmes need to be built on a bedrock of sound and attraction strategy and robust digital processes and only then do you have the opportunity to get the results you want. Before launching OME – Dominic experienced both sides of the media/agency world as a Director at VNU, ThirtyThree and fish4.

Carl Ellis (graduate)  

Hailing from Northern Ireland, Carl Ellis is a Creative Advertising Strategy undergraduate at the University of the Arts’ London College of Communication and works part-time in the financial services industry. Having completed a brief work placement for ACE Saatchi & Saatchi Manila, he is currently seeking a paid internship with a successful London-based agency and is committed to pursuing a career in the advertising and marketing sector upon graduation in 2013.

Andy Hyatt – Head of Digital at Hodes

Andy has spent over a decade in interactive, working with some of the largest and most successful brands in the world to deliver effective, engaging and award-winning campaigns. He has worked both client and agency-side, for Lloyds TSB, leading digital agencies MRM Worldwide and AKQA and most recently heading up DLKW’s interactive team.

There are only a few tickets left for this event!  You can find the event on the Social Media Week London website and apply for tickets via this link.

Hope to see you there!