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Working with Graduates,

Apprentices & Interns

Feeding your talent pipeline from the bottom up is a key
element of ensuring the successful organic growth of any
organisation. The foundation population of today often

becomes the core management population of tomorrow
and the senior leaders of the future.

However, the expectations of How do you ensure that those you
Generation Y (or Millennials) have want to keep are the same ones who
shifted from those who came before. want to stay?

The financial turmoil of the past You only get one opportunity to make
decade (coupled with the increasing a positive impact on your graduates.
number of those attending higher What can you do to ensure that
education) has had a dramatic effect they feel valued, invested in and
on graduate employment, but have the most positive image of the
those successful in gaining places on organisation’s brand?
graduate programmes can quickly
forget how fortunate they are. Most graduates believe that their
graduate programme experience is a
It’s not that there isn’t a job for life clear indication of the development
for the graduate, but an organisation culture and ongoing opportunities
can’t automatically expect a graduate available. It is also their first taste of
for life. Changing expectation the culture of the organisation and a
surrounding personal development chance to build a network with their
and experience due to societal, fellow joiners, often from all over the
cultural and technological change world.
has led to an ever more transient
graduate population.
The following pages outline
Take a good look at your current some of our key offerings
intake of graduates and consider the
time and financial investment you as an example of how
have made. How many of them will we have answered these
still be working for you in three years
time? One in four graduates will leave questions for our clients.
their first employer within a year.
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