High Fliers, the independent market research company which specialises in student and graduate recruitment research, predicts that there will be more opportunities for this summer’s university-leavers than at any time in the last decade. However, the UK’s top employers have received 6% more graduate job applications so far, compared with the equivalent period in the 2013-2014 recruitment round. So competition is still fierce for jobs at top employers.
According to High Fliers, recruiters have confirmed that 31% of this year’s entry-level positions are expected to be filled by graduates who have already worked for their organisation, either through paid internships, industrial placements or vacation work. Indeed nearly half the recruiters who took part in the research repeated their warnings from previous years – that graduates who have had no previous work experience at all are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations’ graduate programmes. The School of Economics strongly encourages all our students to gain work experience whilst at University, for precisely this reason.
For more information on the High Fliers report please use this link:
http://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/2015/graduate_market/GMReport15.pdf