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.
Key findings:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Universum studied 39,500 students from 97 British Universities to understand the career aspirations, goals and workplace requirements for 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.
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.
Key findings:
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.
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 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.
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.
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…
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 can employers get the best out of graduates during interviews? Discover our top interview questions for graduate roles.
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
When applying for roles, graduates have certain criteria. Discover what you need to include in your recruitment campaigns to attract top talent.
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.
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.
Universum studied 39,500 students from 97 British Universities to understand the career aspirations, goals and workplace requirements for 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.
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.
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.
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.
Key findings:
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.
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…
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.
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.
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...
5 ways to attract graduate talent in the competitive market
Below is your step-by-step guide to advertising a job on Totaljobs.
Before you get started, be sure that you have:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How can employers get the best out of graduates during interviews? Discover our top interview questions for graduate roles.
Key findings:
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.
When applying for roles, graduates have certain criteria. Discover what you need to include in your recruitment campaigns to attract top talent.
Milkround and Student Minds announces their partnership to support students as they move from education into working life.
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