Graduate Employer and Recruitment Blog

There’s something for everyone and all levels. It’s even an opportunity to give something a go that perhaps you may not usually have – away from judging eyes! Consider coming back from this crisis with some new skills… Some examples are:

Fusion will also be hosting the next instalment of the Graduate Manager Discussions on Wednesday April 8th on the topic of Graduate Wellbeing and development and invites all managers to join the conversation in order to share and network.

Following the success of the pilot, Career Accelerator extended the invitation to the second round of Mock Assessment Centres to applicants of the UNSW Business School’s Career Mentoring Program (CMP). This offered mutual benefit to all participants: by providing all applicants a development experience; and by utilising the Assessment Centre to select students into the program, to be matched with Alumni mentors.

A lot has changed since our last newsletter 2 weeks ago, and we wanted to touch base with another Graduate market update for you all based on what we have been seeing in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation in Australia.

With the restrictions around gatherings of large groups of people, this has unfortunately cause the cancellation of the majority of Careers Fairs and on campus events for this year.

At Sova, we recognise that the situation is, and will continue to be, especially challenging for HR and graduate recruitment teams in particular as we begin the hiring season.

While the reasons may be a result of very different circumstances, there are certainly similarities to what we are currently seeing in the graduate recruitment industry akin to what we experienced back in 2008 during the Global Financial Crisis.

The Annual AAGE Graduate Recruitment and Development Conference was larger than it has ever been this year, what a great reflection of the graduate recruitment industry’s growth.

Whilst it’s OK having a good overall idea of how your digital recruitment marketing efforts are performing, a more accurate way to measure results is by using Google Analytics UTM tags.

With so many opportunities to choose from, graduates are gaining a reputation for their willingness to renege on job offers. What exactly do they want from an employer?