Neil Millett, Marketing Specialist, reed.co.uk The graduate recruitment marketplace Attracting graduates Retaining top talent

1. Graduates:
Neil Millett, Marketing Exec
Thursday 6th October
@reedcouk
Recruitingtoptalent

2. The recruitment
marketplace
Attracting
graduates
Retaining
top talent

3. 1960

4. 1995

5. Britain’s
favourite
recruiter.
Today

6. Thegraduaterecruitment
marketplace

7. 647,000Undergraduates enrolled in 2016

8. 28,883graduate registrations
reed.co.uk in 2016:

9. 149,572graduate vacancies
reed.co.uk in 2016:

10. £28,000average salary sought
The Class of 2016:
£27,966average salary offered

11. 3%
30%
38%
29%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
Up to £10k £10k-£20k £20k-£30k £30k+
Grad salaries offered: 2016 YTD

12. 1. Education (18,430 jobs added)
2. IT & Telecoms (7,595)
3. Retail (7,057)
4. Engineering (5,750)
5. Health & Medicine (5,292)
Grad jobs available: 2016 YTD

13. 1. Scientific (+36%)
2. Motoring & Automotive (+33%)
3. FMCG (+31%)
4. Education (+24%)
5. Retail (+22%)
Grad jobs available: Fastest movers 2016

14. 1. IT & Telecoms (6,968 new registrations)
2. Accountancy (6,053)
3. Education (5,193)
4. Banking (3,656)
5. Media & Creative (3,599)
Grad candidates available: 2016 YTD

15. 1. Apprenticeships
2. Charity & Voluntary
3. Banking
4. Engineering
5. Construction
Grad candidates available: Fastest movers 2016

16. Wesurveyed 2,500
graduates…

17. 1. To benefit my
career prospects
Why did you go to university?

18. 2. Personal interest
in the subject
Why did you go to university?

19. 3. It was essential for
my preferred career
Why did you go to university?

20. We surveyed 250
businesses…

21. Attracting top
graduate talent

22. 3 out of 4organisations have hired a graduate
In the last 12 months

23. 40%of organisations run an initiative once a year
focused solely on graduate recruitment

24. 1. A high-achieving
mindset
What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?

25. What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?
2. A relevant
qualification

26. What qualities to do you value in a graduate hire?
3. Academic
performance

28. Graduate trainee accountant says working for
PwC got in the way of social life in an email to
colleagues about his “relief” at losing job
Is this the ultimate millennial sign-off? Sacked
graduate bows out of job at top accountancy
firm PwC with email complaining that the work
was boring and got in the way of his fun
Moaning millennials let down their generation

30. Changing how we target graduate talent
Removing academic
qualifiers
Blind
CVs & applications
One-day
assessments

31. 89%of millennials we surveyed believe it’s
important to have a diverse workforce

32. Achanging
hiringprocess

33. 38%
Have used flexible interviewing
(i.e. use of Skype, video interviews)
Of the 250 organisations we surveyed:

34. 22%
Have used personality tests at
some stage of interviewing
Of the 250 organisations we surveyed:

35. 22%
Haven’t trialled any of these
methods

36. 80%of organisations have found it more
challenging to hire graduates in 2016
than previous years

37. 22%of organisations will increase their graduate
salary offering in the next 12 months

38. Whatdo graduates
reallywant?

39. 1. Salary
2. Location
3. Career progression, training and
development
Top three most important things Gen Z (17-18 year olds)
look for in a job:

40. “Good career prospects may enable me to achieve a
higher salary in future.”
“What’s important is the chance to improve skills
and make progress within the business”
Generation Z focus group response

41. “I think we will have an opportunity to learn from
those in other generations who will know more than
us allowing us to learn and improve from them”
Generation Z focus group response

42. 92%of organisations offer induction
to new graduate recruits

43. 3-6 months
It takes graduates
to be fully operational and integrated
into a business

44. Whatmarks outan
employer of choice?

45. 95%of Gen Z believe it’s important for an
employer to value corporate social responsibility

46. 93%of Gen Z believe it’s important for an
employer to offer flexible working hours

47. 99%of Gen Z believe it’s important that an
employer cares about health and happiness

48. Why hire a graduate?

49. “They arecreative
andenergetic”

50. “Bright,keen and
mouldabletalent”

51. “Ameans totrainanddevelop
individualswebelievehavethe skills
tobefuture leaders”

52. Thank you
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Formoreinformationonourresearchpleaseemail:
neil.millett@reedonline.co.uk
@reedcouk