The span of our offering starts from defining your graduate talent strategy, through search, selection, assessment to graduate scheme development. You can outsource all or parts of the process to us in the knowledge that we will treat both clients and candidates with equal respect and professionalism.
For more information about each of our services, please click below.
- Strategic consulting
- Employer branding
- Search and selection
- Project management
- Candidate coaching programme
- Assessment services
- Assessment centre management
- Assessor training
- Graduate development
Strategic consulting
Whether you are entering the marketplace for the first time, or reviewing your current attraction and development strategy, we can work with you to define or improve your approach to graduate talent. Our connectedness to the campus environment means we can offer you an up to date insight into what graduates think of your brand. Additionally we can provide a critical perspective on whether you are doing the best you can to attract and retain your future board. Following an initial diagnostics session, we will map out the remaining steps with you.
Employer branding
In an environment where the demand for good calibre graduates outweighs the supply, it is important to spend your marketing budget wisely. Through focus groups and surveys we can help you gauge the perception of your brand on campus amongst specific student groups.
We can raise your brand on campus through relationship-led experiences with candidates that are already showing signs of being future leaders. Keeping budget in mind, we develop a targeted list of campuses, and events that discerning candidates want to attend.
Search and selection
Targeted search at the graduate level is an effective method of covering a breadth of universities whilst being able to focus on specific groups of students and headhunt candidates that are already in positions of responsibility and showing signs of leadership and excellence (not necessarily academically).
We will work closely with you to understand your requirements and then use our contacts to engage potential candidates in your opportunity. The tracking of candidates means we can talk to them up to two years after they finish university. We can access candidates that would not necessarily have considered applying to your organisation directly.
Project management
We have the systems and processes in place to manage your entire graduate recruitment process for you. While we believe it is much better to drive quality and not quantity of applications, we appreciate that responding and evaluating hundreds of applications can be a time intensive process. We can handle the complete process for you by effectively being an extension of your in-house recruitment team. This is always done with the 'personalised' approach in mind.
Candidate coaching programme
We acknowledge that certain individuals are better equipped to perform well through interview and assessment processes. We offer a candidate coaching programme (open to all applicants) to assist with the preparation for selection and assessment processes - From confidence building through to self-evaluation, personal impact coaching and careers advice. This service ensures you only see people who are at their best and that absolutely want the job. This in turn should improve your hiring rate. We can also support you with providing personalised feedback to candidates post-assessment process.
Assessment services
We combine business psychology with common sense when designing and running selection and assessment processes. Using relevant job analysis or competency framework we work closely with our clients to create a process that is challenging, assesses leadership potential, and is fair and enjoyable for both assessors and candidates.
Assessment centre management
The management and administration of assessment centres is a task which requires enormous skill and experience. It may be the case that you do not have this skill pool within your organisation or you cannot free up the resources to dedicate the time that the process deserves. We can co-ordinate the entire assessment centre process for you; from finding an appropriate venue through to preparing timetables, issuing invitations, creating bespoke briefing packs and wrapping up the process with a 'wash-up' and evaluation session.
Assessor training
Part of the preparation of an effective assessment centre is training assessors. This can also be tailored to your needs, so could be a half day 'refresher' course or a full, two day programme for individuals that have no prior experience in interviewing or assessing. In our experience, such training courses have other business benefits, as delegates develop skills that link to performance management.
Graduate development
As students become more discerning about career choices, it is imperative for organisations to have a forward thinking approach to development. Research has shown that graduates are increasingly cynical to marketing hype. Our business partner, Impact International, has over 25 years experience in this field. They will work with you to produce a graduate development programme that links to your business objectives whilst simultaneously tapping into the mindset of today's student population. You can opt for a fully customised programme or enrol candidates on to 'open' courses. We guarantee that our combined creativity and commitment to graduate development will ensure that your hard-won talent sticks around beyond the duration of the programme.