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Data dashboards - Student Recruitment Report 2026 Members Only

View key data from the ISE Student Recruitment Report in these interactive dashboards, where you can filter by sector and pathway. Discover new and extended dashboards introduced this year!

Student Recruitment Data dashboards 2026: Recruitment market Members Only

Key data points for market health and the hiring ratio of graduates to school and college leavers.

Student Recruitment data dashboards 2026: Hiring Members Only

Find the key data on hiring practices with new dashboards looking at workforce planning, how employers are managing high application volumes and the minimum entry requirements for graduates.

Student Recruitment Data dashboards 2026: AI Members Only

Find the key data with expanded insights into AI in recruitment, policies and guidance for candidates to use AI and candidate misconduct in assessments.

Student Recruitment Data dashboards 2026: Future priorities Members Only

New for 2026 - discover employers' top concerns and expected changes over the next 3-5 years

Graduate jobs stabilise, but AI use disrupts recruitment

ISE’s Student Recruitment Report 2026 shows that graduate jobs have stabilised, but AI misconduct and record applications are disrupting recruitment.

What skills are important for the new hiring season?

As employers prepare for the new recruitment cycle, the skills conversation is changing. An ISE webinar explored what employers are looking for and how young people can develop and demonstrate them.

What employers can learn from care-experienced students

Emerging findings on how care-experienced students understand and navigate employability provide useful insight for employers looking to make early careers more accessible, explains Laura Dorian, Deputy Director of Careers and Enterprise at Durham University.

How NESO built an outstanding graduate programme

Molly Edwards, Early Careers Manager at NESO, explains what’s behind their graduate scheme, which won ISE’s Outstanding Graduate Development Programme Award 2026.

Can you still use automated applicant screening? Members Only

With the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) making recruitment a key regulatory focus, it is more important than ever that those involved recruiting onto early career programmes are aware of their responsibilities when it comes to handling applicants’ data. This includes how they manage assessment tools like psychometric tests.