... always attract high-calibre graduates who wish to join their graduate schemes. Procurement, however, has seen a huge change in the past ... most likely to be recruited into a blue-chip organisation’s procurement function will be degree-educated, ambitious, be able to sell ...

August 2014 | By Nicola Sullivan FROM AUGUST 2014'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE The fast-moving consumer goods market has ... manufacturers had to make savings with some having to axe graduate schemes. This combined with an increased number of interim technical ...

... following the launch of the Co-operative Group’s new Apprentice Academy that is expected to create 2,000 jobs over the next ... up an apprenticeship scheme, said Jenny Taylor, IBM’s UK graduate and student programme manager. “You have to get accreditation and ...

... resisting taking on staff due to a coming slowdown. "Let's get this right," Ciecierski told Recruiter . "The UK economy is not yet ... the latest bi-annual survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) predicts vacancies for graduates will rise by 16.4% ...

May 2014 | By Matt Churchward FROM MAY 2014's RECRUITER MAGAZINE Does Matt Churchward’s recruitment ... Feel free to distribute to clients, candidates and graduate recruitment consultants. Talent acquisition = recruitment ...

... stacked against them. However, as Susan Bor, RBS’s director of group resourcing, looks out across the City skyline from the 11th ... salaries in its branch network remain competitive. Graduate applications are up, says Bor, though she cautions that with 47 ...

... This may have stemmed from the corporates’ aggressive graduate recruitment programmes, their perceived ability to offer better ... for professional development, the ability to forge one’s own career path and the opportunity to learn by working with entrepreneurs ...

It's a classic scenario: you've got a great candidate in a competitive field. ... comes up, they'll cancel interviews. And, of course, the salaries are bigger, though the base salary is less important. So, when it gets ... time and energy goes into reducing the lead time." Graduate milk rounds are a good example of pre-engagement, creating pipelines ...

It’s important to Les Jones to protect the environment. It’s important to manage ... study for a chartered qualification: "I’m not a university graduate so I have a lot of time for people who came through the hard way. If ... not the best payers but we do offer reasonably competitive salaries for accountants… you probably would get more elsewhere but it’s ...

... spying. As the most secretive of the government’s intelligence services, MI6 recruits through headhunting in its base form – ... fulfil M roles is unknown. Since starting to advertise, graduate applicants to MI5 have more than doubled year on year. 11 September ...