Skip to main content

5 trends you need to know from ISE’s Recruitment Survey 2025

Our Student Recruitment Survey 2025 is full of interesting trends and data on the evolving landscape of early careers in the UK. ISE’s Head of Insights, Claire Tyler, unpacks five top trends everyone should know.

Disability adjustments: 8 ways to open doors in hiring

Done well, implementing adjustments for disabled students in recruitment shows that your organisation values inclusion and fairness from the very first interaction. Helen Cooke at MyPlus explains how.

7 evidence-based actions to hire untapped talent

Zero Gravity and Dr Claire Tyler, ISE Head of Insights and Senior Research Fellow at UCL, share where underrepresented talent falls out in the recruitment funnel, and what fixes can close the opportunity gap to improve social mobility.

Championing financial wellbeing in early careers

Support for financial wellbeing is building equity in the workplace for Gen Z, explains Karen Handley, Head of Future Careers at Virgin Media O2.

PeopleScout: Early careers assessment for tomorrow Members Only

Is it time to throw away the old early careers recruitment rulebook? Join PeopleScout’s Head of Assessment Design, Amanda Callen, and Talent Solutions Director, James Chorley, for an eye-opening session that reveals how TMP Worldwide partnered with PeopleScout Psychologists to rewrite the rules and create a future-ready approach for early careers assessment.

Career boost for diverse finance students at Kingston

Kingston University's careers intervention programme is supporting a diverse student cohort into graduate jobs in accounting and finance, explains Louise Cooper, Senior Lecturer in Finance.

What is holding back social mobility in early careers?

UCL research reveals the importance of building an evidence base to inform action on social mobility, explains Dr Claire Tyler, ISE’s Head of Insights.

Overcoming barriers & making a world of positive difference

I. Stephanie Boyce, legal trailblazer and advocate for social justice, EDI and social mobility, offers a preview to her keynote at ISE’s Student Recruitment Conference.

How application processes fail at EDI (and fixes)

Barriers created by inaccessible or complex application processes damage talent pools, and that needs to change, says Alice Hargreaves, a disabled and neurodivergent entrepreneur and founder of SIC.

Simulated training is giving talent a fairer start at RBC

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is using simulation-based training to prepare diverse early career candidates for competitive internships. Anna Buckley from AmplifyME explains how.