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Article
Nov 03, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Careers, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion...

What you need to know about post-16 skills reforms

In this article Anne-Marie Campion unpacks the recently published White Paper on post 16 Education and Skills and current proposal for apprenticeship reform.

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ISEResearch
Oct 22, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment, Technology

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.

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Know-how
Sep 17, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment

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.

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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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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
Jul 09, 2025
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Social Mobility

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.

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ISEResearch
Jul 09, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Recruitment

Graduate employers maintain strong commitment to EDI

ISE Pulse Survey shows commitment of early careers professionals to EDI initiatives.

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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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Research
Jun 12, 2025
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Mobility

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.

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Opinion
Jun 11, 2025
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Mobility

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.

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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
Apr 01, 2025
Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Selection & Assessment

Embracing neurodiversity in hiring

Neurodiversity, encompassing autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more, offers unique strengths to the workplace. Yet, traditional hiring methods often create barriers. Test Partnership explores challenges and solutions.

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