Search, find, keep
Our Talent Consultants can help you find, recruit and retain the best individuals. According to our research, there are only around 7,000 highly numerate graduates each year with a 2.1 or above from a leading university. And there are far more jobs than there are candidates. So if you want to attract top people, you need to be smart about how you go about it. Our consulting skills offer clients help at every stage of the talent management process from candidate attraction through to retention.
Identify
Knowing your market is the first step to gaining a competitive advantage within graduate recruitment. Our research capabilities will make sure you know everything you need to know. We’ll size up the market for you and tell you all the vital statistics such as the number of graduates in a typical year which match your profile, what jobs they aspire to, how much they expect to get paid and even how they rate your brand as an employer.
Where required, we’ll be global in our outlook and tell you about the graduate recruitment market beyond the UK. Looking abroad, we’ll identify geographical trends and hot spots for your type of candidates. And if there are lessons to be learnt from practices abroad, we’ll make sure you know what they are. With our insight, you’ll soon have a better idea of who you want, and how to get them.
Attract
The first step to securing the best graduates for your organisation is making sure that the cream of the crop know all about your opportunities. Where and when to advertise will depend very much upon the sort of graduate you’re looking to attract. Our team will work with you to develop an online and offline advertising strategy that’s designed to deliver your ideal candidates. We’ll also advise you on more innovative approaches to candidate attraction including those offered by Web 2.0 technologies.
Assess
When your first criteria for graduates is their calibre, you need an assessment process that truly identifies. Once we understand more about both the type of candidate you are seeking to attract and your environment, our consultants can design and run an end to end assessment process (including assessment centre design and assessor training where necessary) which will rigorously test candidates against your requirements.
Select
Telling one brilliant candidate apart from another is a tough job but someone’s got to do it. When we’ve put all the candidates through their paces, we’ll short-list the top performers. As well as making sure that candidates measure up to your competency framework, we’ll look for cultural fit and any other criteria you may wish us to take into account.
Recruit
And when you’ve made the final selection, it’s our job to take care of the offer process, together with any salary negotiations. We know our candidates pretty well and the graduate recruitment market intimately so we’re well placed to represent both sides and bring all negotiations to a satisfactory conclusion. Before you know it, we’ll have your new graduate recruit on board.
Retain
Getting the best people into your organisation is one thing. Keeping them there is an entirely different challenge. With this in mind, some of our clients ask us to assist them in designing a two year graduate training scheme that will keep some of the most sought after candidates fully engaged. Since we’re used to dealing with high achievers, we’re able to put together a program to keep the most able minds stimulated throughout the program.
As well as advising on graduate training schemes and professional development strategies, we can also design and run graduate satisfaction surveys to find out how your recruitment strategy is working in practice. Alongside our findings, we’ll offer recommendations and best practice advice to make sure your new recruits are on track to become your leaders of the future.