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Case Study
Aug 12, 2025
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Development

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.

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Case Study
Aug 07, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

Mindfulness: How HSBC is betting on the brain

A Global Mindfulness Programme is helping talent reach their full potential, explains Sean Tolram, Head of Mindfulness at HSBC.

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Know-how
Jul 29, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development, Strategy

What makes an ISE award winner?

Employers share insights and advice to their award-winning early careers programmes.

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Research
Jul 28, 2025
Global, Graduate Development, Student Insight

How do UK graduates stack up globally?

New analysis shows how the skills of UK graduates compare to their counterparts in Europe and the Americas – and what it means for early careers development - explains Matt Kirk at SHL.

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Case Study
Jul 16, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development, Technology

How real-time AI coaching is solving the skills challenge

Early pilots of an AI-powered coaching system demonstrate the power of learning in the flow of work, explains Alice Ivanoff, Co-founder & CEO at Kokoon.

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Know-how
Jul 10, 2025
Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Development

3 steps to keep graduates warm before day one

Amberjack’s latest webinar, hosted by Head of Learning and Development, Jenny Fitzgerald, explored how pre-boarding engagement activity is critical to keeping graduates warm and building loyalty.

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Feature
Jun 26, 2025
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Development, Strategy

ISE Award winners 2025 revealed

The ISE Awards are the biggest celebration of early careers recruitment and development in the UK.

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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 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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Know-how
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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Case Study
May 28, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development, Internships & Placements

DLA Piper’s most successful early careers strategy

DLA Piper explains how it has developed an award-winning early careers strategy.

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ISEResearch
May 23, 2025
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

What are average graduate salaries over a 3-year programme?

ISE’s Student Development survey 2025 looks at how graduates progress over a three-year programme with salaries by sector and region.

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