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Know-how
Oct 27, 2026
Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

Who are you really competing with for graduates?

Ahead of his opening keynote at the ISE Early Talent Intelligence Summit, Toby Culshaw, author of Talent Intelligence and co-founder of the Talent Intelligence Collective, asks how well early careers teams really know their competition.

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Case Study
Oct 20, 2026
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Development, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

How Severn Trent is building the workforce of the future

Building the workforce of the future starts with aligning strategy with business needs, explains Kellie Emery at Severn Trent.

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ISE Research
Oct 19, 2026
Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

What the ‘stabilised’ graduate market really looks like

ISE’s Claire Tyler examines what this year's hiring figures reveal about the state of the early careers market. This is the first of a four-part series that explores key themes from our Student Recruitment Report 2026.

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Know-how
Oct 15, 2026
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

Finding authentic talent in an AI powered recruitment market

In response to member demand, ISE hosted a virtual open forum where employers shared concerns and solutions for finding authentic talent amid a flood of applications.

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Article
Oct 14, 2026
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

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.

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Know-how
Oct 05, 2026
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Development, Graduate 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.

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Research
Sep 22, 2026
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment, Social Mobility, Student Insight

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.

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Case Study
Sep 21, 2026
Graduate Development, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

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.

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Know-how
Sep 07, 2026
Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment

Give students an experience worth showing up for – in-house

At ISE’s Recruitment Conference Brian Sinclair from Aon shared why he believes the future of early careers attraction is increasingly in-house. He shares how they are designing high-impact experiences that students really value.

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Opinion
Aug 25, 2026
Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment

ISE response to Adzuna graduate vacancy figures

Stephen Isherwood, joint CEO, Institute of Student Employers responds to the Adzuna data released 24 August 2026 that shows a 45% year-on-year decline in graduate job vacancies.

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Opinion
Aug 24, 2026
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment

Why graduate employers need different thinkers

Neurodiverse students should be of particular interest to employers, explains Dr. David Gordon, an Associate Professor at De Montfort University and member of ISE’s EDI Working Group.

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Know-how
Aug 17, 2026
Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Recruitment, Internships & Placements

Strengthen your graduate pipeline with insight visits

Partnering with universities to host employer insight visits strengthens your graduate talent pipeline, explains Anna Fons Garcia at Queen Mary University of London.

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