The interview questions you should be asking graduates
How can employers get the best out of graduates during interviews? Discover our top interview questions for graduate roles.
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Exploring graduate ‘side hustles’
Our Candidate Compass research for 2019 revealed that an increasing number of students and graduates are taking on a second earning project, alongside their studies or full-time jobs and we wanted to find out more about them.
Best employer branding in the UK
Universum studied 39,500 students from 97 British Universities to understand the career aspirations, goals and workplace requirements for graduates.
How to support graduates with their mental health
Our research shows that 62% of Gen Z have taken a mental health sick day, but only 24% were honest with their employer.
In this guide, we cover our findings on mental health, a report by Student Minds and insight from the Institute of Student Employers.
We also share a number of actionable tips for addressing mental health and supporting young workers, as they transition from university to the workplace.
How to create a powerful graduate recruitment campaign
Attracting the best and brightest students and graduates is not down to chance. Creating a powerful campaign and clear and meaningful job descriptions has an important role to play in achieving this. Here we discuss ways you can further enhance your graduate campaigns and our tips for implementing these actions and processes.
Jobseekers are turned off by jargon in job adverts
Our research, where we surveyed 2,000 graduates, found that 71% of people can be discouraged from applying for jobs because of jargon. We encourage employers to use our ‘Jargon Decoder’ to help create your job descriptions.
What does success look like to graduates?
Our most recent research* looks at generational changes, how attitudes to work have changed over time, and how this can affect a company’s attraction strategy.
Here’s what we found out…
Writing an engaging job description for graduates
A job description aimed at graduates needs to make a good first impression and is your chance to showcase your employer brand. Learn how to make your descriptions as engaging as possible with our expert advice.
“Mental health sick days” report by Milkround
Key findings:
- 63% of the UK population don’t realise that there’s no legal difference between a sick day and a mental health sick day
- 62% of Gen Z have taken a mental health sick day, but only 24% were honest with their employer
- In fact, only 14% of UK workers have felt that they could be honest about taking a mental health sick day
- 75% of Gen Z would worry about being called a ‘Snowflake’ if they took a mental health sick day, to the extent that 43% would not even take the day off
User guide: using the Milkround Candidate Management System
To help speed up your hiring process, we have built one of the most intuitive candidate management systems in the market.
Use this guide to get the most from the Milkround Candidate Management System.
The cost of working for graduates
We share out latest research into how much it costs for graduates to relocate when stepping into the world of work. We also offer tips on how employers can better support graduates financially.
What graduates want to know about your company
When applying for roles, graduates have certain criteria. Discover what you need to include in your recruitment campaigns to attract top talent.
Where do graduates want to live and work?
With COVID-19 having impacted graduates’ career choices, we look at their current living situations and how the pandemic has affected where they are looking to live and work in the future. Learn more about how our findings present opportunities for businesses to showcase their closest cities to students and graduates.
Teach employability skills with UpRising
Milkround have been working with UpRising for a number of years, as part of their ‘Fastlaners‘ programme for 18-25-year-olds. Discover our involvement and how employers can get involved and support developing the employability skills of young talent.
Milkround Society Awards
Want to network with a talented group of individuals and expose your brand to thousands of students?
Become a sponsor and judge of our annual Society Awards.
Discover:
- How the Society Awards work
- Why your company should become a sponsor and judge
- How to get involved
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Student and graduate mental health
The transition moving from university into the workplace can be a significant challenge for a young person’s mental health and wellbeing, both employers and universities have an important role to play in supporting young people. We surveyed nearly 3,000 students and graduates to better understand student and graduate career perceptions and concerns with our research finding that only 29% of students and graduates feel that they could be open with their employer about mental health.
Download our one-pager below for more information on the support that students and graduates are looking for as well as some advice on how you...
User guide: help creating your job ad
Below is your step-by-step guide to advertising a job on Totaljobs.
Before you get started, be sure that you have:
- Set up an account.
- Added a company logo.
- Decided on a job title.
- Written a job description.
- Defined the salary you want to offer.
Recruiting and onboarding graduates from home
Our guide for interviewing and onboarding new graduates, including some of the best platforms to use whilst recruiting from home, our insight into graduates and the use of technology and our top tips for implementing this advice into your organisation.
The cost of working for graduates
We share out latest research into how much it costs for graduates to relocate when stepping into the world of work. We also offer tips on how employers can better support graduates financially.
How to write an engaging email to attract graduate candidates
An engaging email can encourage more candidates to apply for a role. Discover how to improve the open and engagement rates of your graduate recruitment emails.
How to attract and retain diverse talent and improve social mobility
We have undertaken a lot of research on attracting and retaining diverse talent. This has enabled us to both understand students’ attitudes and to pinpoint more about what employers could do to act on this research. Here we look various areas of our insight and offer tips on how to improve social mobility and attract a diverse talent pool.
Boosting productivity whilst working from home
The number of those working from home is increasing each year, and COVID-19 has demonstrated to a great many employers that working from home is possible. Here we discuss working from home and productivity, the positive impact of a happy workforce and trust.
How to showcase your employer brand and stand out from the crowd
Attracting graduates requires companies to stand out from their competitors. There are numerous ways to achieve this and some of these are explored here, plus tips for implementing these initiatives in your organisation.
Graduate Recruitment Guide
Our ‘Graduate Recruitment Guide’ covers a broad range of common recruitment challenges and offers clear solutions. Perhaps you want to improve your recruitment and onboarding processes? Create a powerful graduate campaign? Promote your employer brand? Improve diversity within your firm? Provide mental health support? We’ve got you covered…
Supporting young people this Christmas
This year we are supporting the Stephen Lawrence Trust, who support and inspire talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, enabling them to succeed.
We are also supporting Centrepoint, who provide homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment.
Find out more about the charities and how you can donate.
