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BCU regional partnerships boost graduate hiring

Birmingham City University (BCU) is piloting collaborative partnerships with other regional players to support graduate long-term employment outcomes whilst simplifying how employers engage with higher education, explains Project Manager Robyn Fisher-Payne.

Sep 23, 2025
Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

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Know-how
Sep 17, 2025

Disability adjustments: 8 ways to open doors in hiring

Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment

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.

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Webinar

ISE AI & student recruitment webinar

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy, Technology

Managing mass applications, multiple offers & reneges in the new normal.

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Feature
Future, Strategy, Technology

From ‘Early Talent’ to Emerging Talent: ISE Podcast

New episode, 17 September. Stephen speaks to global talent leaders to discuss the impact of AI.

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Research
Sep 15, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment, Social Mobility

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.

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Research
Sep 12, 2025
Internships & Placements, Student Insight

The problem of finding an internship

Ioana Husaru, a Brunel University student, shares research on the challenges facing students when looking for internships with advice for employers, universities and students.

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Opinion
Sep 11, 2025
Strategy, Technology

Making AI adoption work

Intentionality, transparency and context matter when adopting AI, explains Chris Webb, a Career Consultant at The University of Huddersfield with a specialist interest in AI.

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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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Report

ISE Student Development Survey 2025 Members Only

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.

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Dashboard

Data Dashboards: Student Development 2025 Members Only

We've gathered the data from our Student Development survey into these digestible, interactive dashboards.

Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

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Report

Student Recruitment Survey 2024 Access Now

The student labour market is directly affected by global and national economic forces, the political environment, and the changing needs of employers and students. The ISE Recruitment Survey identifies a number of significant trends driven by these pressures.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

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ISE Resources

Our resources cover a wide range of toolkits and guides, to give you comprehensive support in all aspects of your role. 

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Future of Early Talent

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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ISE Apprenticeships

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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EDI

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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