Supermarket chain Tesco is continuing to recruit graduates in spite of the recession.

Tesco annually offers over 100 places on 15 different schemes for UK graduates, from legal services and Tesco.com to property and engineering.

Applications for the schemes for September closed in December 2008 with more than 16,000 graduates applying. The chain also continuously recruits for some schemes in its commercial division, including buying and merchandising, with some places still available.

Hayley Tatum, UK operations personnel director at Tesco, says: “At Tesco we are very aware that the recent economic climate is having detrimental effect upon today’s graduates and the talent of the future. We have always identified the skills and opportunities graduates bring to Tesco and for this reason we have remained committed to our graduate recruitment process.”