Contracts/Deals: Engineer Graduates to work with WCN
15 October 2012
Graduate recruitment and development company Engineer Graduates has selected software firm WCN’s e-recruitment system to power its business.
Mon, 15 Oct 2012
Graduate recruitment and development company Engineer Graduates has selected software firm WCN’s e-recruitment system to power its business.
Engineer Graduates will provide early stage graduate programmes to a number of sectors and has various companies of all sizes signed up that will look for candidates for 2013 drawn from 22 UK universities.Carl Dawson, founder of Engineer Graduates, says: "I'd been delivering graduate programmes for 10 years and noticed that the conversations with graduates increasingly needed to take place earlier and earlier, for companies to stand a chance of recruiting the top talent they wanted – and not losing it to other sectors such as finance.
“So I felt there was a need for a new kind of graduate scheme. I also knew that a large part of its success would be dependent on the e-recruitment system behind it."
The company will target students on campus from the first year of their degree course. It typically receives about 70 applicants per place on placement.
Steve Tope, WCN’s director of client services, says: “Everyone is talking about the shortage of talent going into engineering, so to be working with a business committed to addressing this issue head on is tremendously exciting.”
Graduate recruitment and development company Engineer Graduates has selected software firm WCN’s e-recruitment system to power its business.
Engineer Graduates will provide early stage graduate programmes to a number of sectors and has various companies of all sizes signed up that will look for candidates for 2013 drawn from 22 UK universities.Carl Dawson, founder of Engineer Graduates, says: "I'd been delivering graduate programmes for 10 years and noticed that the conversations with graduates increasingly needed to take place earlier and earlier, for companies to stand a chance of recruiting the top talent they wanted – and not losing it to other sectors such as finance.
“So I felt there was a need for a new kind of graduate scheme. I also knew that a large part of its success would be dependent on the e-recruitment system behind it."
The company will target students on campus from the first year of their degree course. It typically receives about 70 applicants per place on placement.
Steve Tope, WCN’s director of client services, says: “Everyone is talking about the shortage of talent going into engineering, so to be working with a business committed to addressing this issue head on is tremendously exciting.”
