James Kewin, Joint MD of CFE, presented the headline findings at the AGR conference this morning.Â
Here are the headline findings:
- Graduate Recruitment vacancies were predicted to drop by 1.6% in 2010 but this looks more like 6.9%.
- This may look gloomy but actually the story is very different depending on sector. Banking and finance vacancies [...]
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Hot off the press! Results and panel comments from the 2010 AGR Graduate Recruitment Survey 2010
Parlez-vous Graduate careers?
Research reported by the The Times this week has highlighted a growing dissatisfaction among many high-profile employers with the language skills of UK graduates. HR staff from companies including RBS, Google, McDonald’s and the law firm Slaughter and May underwent interviews with Cilt, the government-funded National Centre for Languages. Cilt reports that “Employers view the [...]
Leadership undone
I enjoyed a thoroughly stimulating day at The Economist Talent Management Conference 2010. Quite frankly it was arguably one of the most useful, and thought provoking events I have attended in a long time. In my mind the Chairman Linda Hill, Harvard Business School made the day; she lent insight, and inspired questioning to what [...]
Don’t forget diversity!
Despite all the talk of ‘Generation Crunch’, the lost generation of graduates, the most recent survey from the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) revealed the positive news that the graduate market had a surprisingly buoyant 2009 compared to expectations. OK, so vacancies still dropped by 8.9%, but many feared this would be more like 25%.
Even [...]
