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.
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 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 recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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 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 recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
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.
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…
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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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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…
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 to recruit graduates
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
On-demand webinar: Supporting graduate talent remotely
Our latest research explores the experiences of graduates who have entered the workforce over the past year and how they have coped with a new remote way of working. The webinar also covers the thoughts of 500 HR decision makers who have hired graduates during national UK lockdowns and their thoughts for the future of work.
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...
What students and graduates are looking for and their expectations of the working world
Here we share the key findings from our Candidate Compass report, where we surveyed over 7,000 students and graduates. We also share tips from global branding expert, Universum, on how you to harness your employer brand. Finally, we have some advice from Student Minds on how to support student and graduate well-being.
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- Decided on a job title.
- Written a job description.
- Defined the salary you want to offer.
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.
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.
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 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.
Graduate perceptions on Brexit in 2019
We survey graduates’ perceptions of Brexit and how they feel about their careers in times of uncertainty.
We then compared this with how graduates fared in the 2008 global financial crisis.
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.
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