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What employers & HE need to know about immigration reforms

The UK’s immigration system and visa regime continue to change with announcements from government on an almost weekly basis. Anne-Marie Campion, ISE’s Insights Manager, explains what members need to know.

Nov 19, 2025
Case Study
Nov 17, 2025

What’s behind Sky’s most successful early careers strategy?

Sky was crowned with the Most Successful Early Careers Strategy at this year’s ISE Awards. Early Careers Senior Consultant, Charlotte Stephenson, explains how they did it.

ISEResearch
Nov 12, 2025

How are employers using AI in early careers recruitment?

ISE’s Student Recruitment Survey provides insight to the extent of AI adoption in early careers recruitment, its perceived benefits, and the challenges associated with its use in hiring.

Deloitte returns to face-to-face recruitment

The shift away from traditional milkrounds and towards a more engaging, in-person approach to student recruitment has proven highly effective for Deloitte, says Victoria Whitehill, head of talent engagement.

KPMG & TTF: A new model for work experience

The Talent Foundry, KPMG UK and The Careers & Enterprise Company collaborated to develop a pilot model for modern work experience.

How do students find out about employment opportunities?

New research by Lancaster University shines a light on how students find out about jobs, providing useful insight for employer attraction campaigns.

What you need to know about post-16 skills reforms

In this article Anne-Marie Campion unpacks the recently published White Paper on post 16 Education and Skills and current proposal for apprenticeship reform.

ISE Insights

We work to provide expert information and insight to our member organisations and deliver comprehensive research on range of issues affecting graduate, intern and apprenticeship recruitment and development.

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ISE Research

ISE research helps employers, universities, suppliers, and wider stakeholders in the student recruitment and development industry make well-informed decisions about student talent. 

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ISE Recruitment Survey 2025 - Data dashboards Members Only

Discover key trends in student recruitment with these interactive dashboards, with the ability to filter by sector and region.

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ISE Student Development Survey 2025 Access Now

Despite an uncertain economic and political environment, ISE members continue to hire more student onto their development programmes. Find an in-depth analysis of data from employer members across a range of sectors and discover trends in development programmes for graduates and school and college leavers.

Ten years ago, not many ISE members were hiring school leavers, now they are.

Ten years from now, we expect many ISE member recruitment teams will not only still target school leavers and graduates, but also career changers, older workers and internal candidates.

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Here you will find the content the ISE Apprenticeships Working Group has been working hard on delivering. 

In order to inform employers of the value of apprenticeships for their organisation.

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Find research, case studies, advice and information curated by ISE’s EDI Working Group to support members in their EDI journey.

From starting out and building a business case to developing a strategy and measuring performance.

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