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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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  • Hello Jackie,

    Although career fairs its great to create awareness about your organizations, but visiting one university or even 4 or 5 limits your reach to candidates.

    My organization has a Graduate Recruit Program every year and this year we had 6000 applicants from all over the country and our only means of advertising was social media.

    Most of our recruitment process is digital for it helps us in screening candidates aswell. Going digital on social media would help you find candidates who are currently looking for opportunities. But even these applicants will be valid for a short amount of time, if you delay your process in contacting these candidates they will again not be available or will be working elsewhere.
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  • Hello Jackie,

    Although career fairs its great to create awareness about your organizations, but visiting one university or even 4 or 5 limits your reach to candidates.

    My organization has a Graduate Recruit Program every year and this year we had 6000 applicants from all over the country and our only means of advertising was social media.

    Most of our recruitment process is digital for it helps us in screening candidates aswell. Going digital on social media would help you find candidates who are currently looking for opportunities. But even these applicants will be valid for a short amount of time, if you delay your process in contacting these candidates they will again not be available or will be working elsewhere.
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