Blog for Employers

  • Interviewing a graduate is not the same as interviewing an experienced candidate with years of work behind them. To conduct a successful graduate interview, you need to be assessing more than skills, you are looking for character, soft skills, curiosity and work ethic amongst other things. This blog aims to help employers prepare for graduate interviews by giving you our best tips. ...
  • 7 Tips on how to hire top marketing graduates
    Hiring graduates needn’t be intimidating, time consuming or costly. As a company RecruitAGraduate places thousands of grads into work and these are our 7 tips on how to hire top marketing graduates. Newly graduated marketing talent have their fingers on the pulse on the latest trends and tools. They come with fresh perspectives, a lot of passion and the latest skills, all aspects that...
  • Onboarding Remote Graduates: Beyond Logistics to Cultivating a Welcoming Work Culture
    Onboarding remote graduates is more than logistics, such as ensuring your new employee has a computer and an email address. Graduates need to feel welcome, they need to understand their roles and responsibilities, company values, and the culture of the workplace. The upside of hiring graduates is that they are digital natives because they have grown up with technology and have used it on a...
  • Essential Graduate Skills for a Dynamic Business World
    To remain relevant to your market, your hiring strategy must adapt to include graduate skills. Companies play a role as market-finders and culture creators, but today’s markets are morphing and changing faster than many businesses could have ever predicted. The imperative is for new, agile approaches to reach differentiated consumers with virtually the entire world at their fingertips....
  • What Graduates Want in Their Careers: It’s (not) All About the Money
    Fresh-faced graduates enter the working world and are confronted with plenty of choices and decisions that will shape their professional future. One question looms large: What do graduates want in their careers? While many employers assume it's all about the money, there are actually three key factors driving their ambitions.    1. What graduates want in their careers is an...