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Jun 26, 2025
Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

Campus engagement: what’s working and what’s not

Not long ago, a free tote bag and a handshake could spark a graduate’s career journey. Today that barely gets a second glance. Christos Orthodoxou, Director of Innovation at Talent People, reflects on the new rules of campus engagement.

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Know-how
Jun 26, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

Preparing early talent to thrive in the AI era

Equipping early career talent and ourselves to flourish in the AI age is essential, explains Alice Hooper-Scott, Director, The School of Life at Work.

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Know-how
Jun 26, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

How to build an effective employee ambassador network

In today’s competitive talent landscape, organisations are increasingly turning to a powerful but underutilised strategy to boost their employer brand: employee ambassador programmes. PLOY explains how.

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Know-how
Jun 20, 2025
Apprentice Development, Future, Graduate Development, Strategy

Taking a skills-first approach to emerging talent

ISE joint-CEO Stephen Isherwood hosted a webinar exploring how organisations and educational institutions can adopt a skills-first approach to emerging talent strategies.

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Jun 12, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

How mindfulness can ease the student shift to professional

Mindfulness can support the student to professional transition. Sean Tolram, Head of Mindfulness at HSBC, shares insight ahead of his keynote at ISE’s Student Recruitment Conference.

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Jun 12, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

Push creative boundaries to attract early talent

Early careers content is often tucked away on a firm’s main website, posing challenges when engaging media-savvy, brand-conscious Gen Z students. Grahame Jones, of Soukias Jones, explores creative digital solutions to boost engagement.

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Know-how
May 29, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Strategy

How to engage schools and colleges

The second guide in ISE’s School and College Engagement Toolkit explains how to best engage with schools and colleges.

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Know-how
May 28, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

Measuring what really matters in student recruitment

Early careers teams are investing more in outreach. Maryam Al-Makhzoumi at Uptree considers how to measure success beyond who gets hired.

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Know-how
May 14, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Attraction & Marketing

How to build an early careers attraction strategy that works

A well-planned attraction strategy drives better quality applications, strengthens employer branding and improves long-term recruitment success. Maddie Boardman at Amberjack explains how.

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Know-how
May 13, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment

8 reasons to engage with schools and colleges

The first guide in ISE’s School and College Engagement Toolkit explains the importance of engaging with schools and colleges and why your business should invest.

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Know-how
May 01, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment

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.

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Know-how
May 01, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

How to create a successful onboarding strategy

A great onboarding experience can be the difference between a confident, committed new student or graduate hire and a disengaged one. Sarah Wardle, Relationships Director at Eli Onboarding explains how.

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