Graduate Employer and Recruitment Blog

Internships are a great way for students or recent grads to try their hand at an industry or particular company that they are interested in pursuing further. While you may view them as a nice temporary addition to your team, interns are also a fantastic talent pipeline to candidates for your graduate programs. We show you why in this blog.

Still looking to add to your recruitment numbers post peak season? Students are still looking to apply! We have some suggestions in this blog on how to continue to hire over the next couple of months.

Over the past couple of years we’ve seen a shift from the traditional peak graduate hiring season (February - April) to a continued recruitment period throughout the rest of the year. With continued recruitment comes increased competition for your current accepts. What then can you do to keep graduates engaged during the period before their program starts? We’ve got a few ideas to help in this blog.

While employers may be looking at a gradual return to the office, many interns and graduates have still indicated their preference for the flexibility of remote and hybrid working. We give our top tips on best ways to support your new starters in a remote environment.

2022 is shaping up to be a tough graduate recruitment season for many recruiters - the crunch is on, demand is up from employers, students aren’t applying as much. So what can you do to get your numbers for 2023 intakes?

Time to hire, cost to hire, attrition rate. There are plenty of really comprehensive lists of HR and hiring metrics available online. But are we using them to measure what matters? Do metrics such as employee turnover or length of service tell us the full story? Or are we simply assessing the success of our own graduate recruitment processes? Find out in this latest article from Sova.

We all know the feeling during peak season - you’ve launched your campaign for your biggest annual graduate program push and waiting to see how the numbers will look. And how do you know whether your campaign is on track, especially with the changeable graduate market and last-minute nature of students we know all too well? In this blog post, we give our top tips on how you can set goals, monitor your progress and ways to create peaks when you need a little mid-campaign boost.

The assessment centre is a key milestone and brand-building opportunity in the hiring process, so whether in-person or virtual, it’s important to deliver a positive and developmental experience for candidates whilst gleaning the right information in a fair and consistent manner. Sova's virtual assessment centre technology has transformed the assessment experience for their clients’ candidates and assessors as part of an in-person, hybrid or completely virtual process.

Whether you’re presenting at one of our upcoming Meet the Employers events or any other virtual careers webinar, you might be wondering, what are the key points you should include in the likely limited time that you have to speak? We offer some suggestions in this blog post.

A recap of our 2022 Top100 Awards Night.