Vodafone grad scheme gets bigger and broader

Telecoms giant Vodafone UK is to recruit 400 graduates over the next five years on to an expanded graduate programme.
Thu, 23 May 2013Telecoms giant Vodafone UK is to recruit 400 graduates over the next five years on to an expanded graduate programme.

This is a major increase from the firm’s recent graduate intakes, having recruited a total of 50 individuals straight from university since 2010. The new scheme sees graduates spend two years in a number of different placements across the business, up from the current 12-month graduate programme.

Year one consists of two months on a high-street retail store, followed by two five-month rotations across the business, and the new second year will be made up of a single year-long placement.

Vodafone UK chief executive officer Guy Laurence claims he will “always spend time with them [graduate hires] as their ideas are interesting and we can learn as much from them as they do from us”.

Interested applicants are directed to the Vodafone website when the programme re-opens in the autumn.

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