Graduates have been urged to gain the basic business skills by Donna Miller, Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s HR director.

Miller’s comments follow Enterprise’s launch of a new recruitment campaign, demonstrating the importance of core business competences, such as teamwork, ambition, entrepreneurial focus and above all, enjoyment, was developed as part of the company’s Come Alive recruitment strategy.

Enterprise recruits around 750 graduates in the UK and Ireland each year as part of its management training programme and Miller says that a first job can provide an invaluable business education.

Miler says: “Increasingly graduates are joining companies and opting to stay there for longer, looking for job security and career progression. It seems the days of job hopping are over – for now. That makes it essential that a first job provides progression and a business foundation that teaches skills that can be used throughout a career.”