August 12th, 2011 → 8:57 pm @ marc
Professional services firm KPMG will recruit about 75,000 graduates worldwide over the next three years, representing a 25% increase in the firm’s historical resourcing target.
The global member firm network has identified a need to take on about 250,000 new hires over the next five years, and graduate recruitment plays an essential role in meeting the [...]
April 16th, 2011 → 3:10 am @ marc
Will the UK move towards the USA system with universities free to charge students what the market will bear for tuition. If so, it would free universities from state control on numbers of students and generally require students to fund their own education. Of course, the universities would provide grants to high calibre students whose parents were of modest means. (Oxford University already supports 30% of it’s undergraduates through their bursary scheme).
March 11th, 2011 → 8:35 pm @ marc
Jaguar Land Rover has doubled the number of graduates it plans to recruit this year.
The company plans to hire 280 graduates in 2011 compared to 135 last year.
The 280 graduates will be hired for a variety of roles across the business including product development, engineering, manufacturing, finance, human resources, IT, marketing and purchasing. The company’s [...]
December 21st, 2010 → 5:40 am @ marc
Research by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol found that law, economics and management were the most valuable subjects for study.
November 20th, 2010 → 2:22 am @ marc
John Lewis, the leading retailer, is doubling its intake of graduates for 2011
November 4th, 2010 → 1:36 am @ marc
Graduates thinking of a career in HR should consider the Reward specialism, also known as Compensation & Benefits or Remuneration, which is an in-demand area paying on average 10% more than other equivalent HR positions. Reward, including performance management, is becoming increasingly critical to organisational performance.
November 1st, 2010 → 4:22 am @ marc
There has been a consensus for some years that the UK has a problem with generating sufficient engineering graduates and with persuading females that engineering is a suitable career. There is also consensus that a significant number of engineering graduates, perhaps as high as 50%, do not pursue a career in engineering.
The experience of AT&T Williams F1 suggests that employers need apprenticeships and career development programmes that will encourage more young people to enjoy a career in engineering.
Engineers need physics & maths at A2 and there is a shortage of degree qualified teachers in those subjects. Too many pupils drop these subjects after GCSE. More innovative ways of getting qualified engineers into the classroom could impact on this as would allowing market forces to play a more significant role in reward structures for teachers of short supply subjects.
In the meantime a number of graduate engineering roles remain on the Tier Two National Shortage Occupation List.
September 7th, 2010 → 2:10 am @ marc
At Kimberly-Clark, their UK recruitment adviser, Will Corder said that the company had been able to recruit only eight graduate trainees, fewer than in previous years. One candidate, when asked how he or she had developed leadership skills, answered:”At church Im [sic] in charge of some organisation”.
September 6th, 2010 → 9:21 pm @ marc
Employers continually complain of a shortage of candidates with qualifications in the STEM subjects, (science, technology, engineering and maths), and yet some of these groups show high levels of unemployment.
