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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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.
How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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…
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.
“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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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.
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.
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.
How to create a successful reverse mentoring scheme
Reverse mentoring is a great way to support graduates with building relationships and provide development opportunities for all employees. Here we reveal our latest research on this and how graduates can support other employees with digital skills – even when working from home. We also share our top tips for implementing a reverse mentoring scheme.
What’s putting graduates off applying for jobs
Findings from our latest research revealed nearly half of students and graduates are put off applying for jobs because of the recruitment process. Discover what’s retracting them to better refine your graduate recruitment strategies.
How to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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.
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.
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.
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.
The future tech workforce
We partnered with tech job specialists, CWJobs to understand the thoughts and perceptions of the future tech workforce. Here we share our key findings and how employers can better attract top tech graduate 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.
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.
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…
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