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Graduate recruitment process

Jackie

Morning all - it's Friday!

Each year we attend university careers fairs with the aim of attracting graduates for our two year graduate programme.  Last year we attended as usual and were handed 250+ CV's.  We have two graduate vacancies advertised and have emailed all 250 students and have only had one application.

I appreciate, due to slow management decisions, we are very late making contact and the majority will already have planned or started their career elsewhere.

We're about to book the next round of careers fairs for the Autumn and I'm wondering if we'd have better results using specialist websites and social media.  I'd appreciate your views on whether you think this is the way forward.  Do you have any experience of sites such as Gradsouthwest?

Thanks

Jackie

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  • What is the point of going to a career fair if your recruitment process hasn't started until 6+ months later? You need to align your marketing activity with the recruiting activity!

    Many graduate recruiters start targeting students from their first year at university attracting them early with internship programmes and will offer the best performers on those internships graduate jobs, before they even start advertising their graduate vacancies.

    Autumn is usually the busiest time for careers fairs for graduate recruitment, with most employers opening their recruitment process up in late autumn, with vacancies closing in the winter and interviews in the spring, so that students are heading into final exams with conditional offers secured. However, this timeline is moving earlier and earlier every year and it's not unusual for top graduates to start receiving offers around Christmas now.
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  • What is the point of going to a career fair if your recruitment process hasn't started until 6+ months later? You need to align your marketing activity with the recruiting activity!

    Many graduate recruiters start targeting students from their first year at university attracting them early with internship programmes and will offer the best performers on those internships graduate jobs, before they even start advertising their graduate vacancies.

    Autumn is usually the busiest time for careers fairs for graduate recruitment, with most employers opening their recruitment process up in late autumn, with vacancies closing in the winter and interviews in the spring, so that students are heading into final exams with conditional offers secured. However, this timeline is moving earlier and earlier every year and it's not unusual for top graduates to start receiving offers around Christmas now.
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