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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How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
Shaping graduate attraction and retention strategies in 2020
On the 21st November, we were joined by 25 employers for an afternoon of roundtable discussions. We spoke about their biggest graduate recruitment challenges in 2019, as well as how they can better shape attraction and retention activity in 2020.
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.
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.
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.
How imposter syndrome is affecting female graduates
We recently delved into the minds of 5,700 students and graduates, to find out about young people’s career confidence.
Here we focus on how female graduates are suffering with imposter syndrome and how you can support them in 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.
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.
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.
A Graduate’s Career Journey
In May, we surveyed 3,000 university students and graduates to better understand their career perceptions, building our 2020 Candidate Compass from the results. We wanted to explore our findings further, delving deeper into their thoughts, preferences and concerns through each stage of the graduate journey.
Download our info-graphic below for insights into their decisions on further education, when to start the job search, applications and interviews, as well as training and development.
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.
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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.
How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
Shaping graduate attraction and retention strategies in 2020
On the 21st November, we were joined by 25 employers for an afternoon of roundtable discussions. We spoke about their biggest graduate recruitment challenges in 2019, as well as how they can better shape attraction and retention activity in 2020.
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.
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.
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.
How imposter syndrome is affecting female graduates
We recently delved into the minds of 5,700 students and graduates, to find out about young people’s career confidence.
Here we focus on how female graduates are suffering with imposter syndrome and how you can support them in 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.
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.
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.
A Graduate’s Career Journey
In May, we surveyed 3,000 university students and graduates to better understand their career perceptions, building our 2020 Candidate Compass from the results. We wanted to explore our findings further, delving deeper into their thoughts, preferences and concerns through each stage of the graduate journey.
Download our info-graphic below for insights into their decisions on further education, when to start the job search, applications and interviews, as well as training and development.
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.
Attracting a diverse graduate audience
Our recent research revealed that 1 in 3 students and graduates believe coming from a lower socio-economic background heavily impacts someone’s career. We wanted to delve deeper into their thoughts surrounding diversity and inclusion throughout the application process and at work.
Download our one-pager below for concerns during the applications process and before starting their first role, what employers can do to help increase diversity in the workforce, and our top tips.
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.
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…
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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.
Milkround delivers care packages to students
In November last year, we headed to six universities across the UK to deliver 3,000 care packages to students during a challenging time over the national lockdown period.
How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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...
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 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.
Shaping graduate attraction and retention strategies in 2020
On the 21st November, we were joined by 25 employers for an afternoon of roundtable discussions. We spoke about their biggest graduate recruitment challenges in 2019, as well as how they can better shape attraction and retention activity in 2020.
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.
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.
Webinar: How to retain top talent and support graduates during COVID-19
These highlights from our first webinar provide insight into the graduate market, specifically around how students are currently feeling and how you can best support them. Here we share key takeaways from the session, including graduate expectations, what they see as success, plus our top tips for retaining top talent.
How imposter syndrome is affecting female graduates
We recently delved into the minds of 5,700 students and graduates, to find out about young people’s career confidence.
Here we focus on how female graduates are suffering with imposter syndrome and how you can support them in the workplace.
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.
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…
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.
“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
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