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ISEResearch
Oct 15, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing, Graduate Selection & Assessment...

Apprenticeships rise as graduate vacancies drop 8%

ISE’s Student Recruitment Survey 2025 launches with the latest data on the entry-level jobs market.

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Case Study
Oct 08, 2025
Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Selection & Assessment

Sky’s award-winning approach to early careers assessment

How Sky and Cappfinity designed an award-winning early careers assessment and selection process.

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Case Study
Sep 29, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

What Shoosmiths can teach us about AI in recruitment

Shoosmiths are trailblazers in using AI in recruitment from candidate support during applications to using AI tools in selection. Samantha Hope, Senior Emerging Talent Manager, shares their learnings.

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Know-how
Jul 24, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

6 ways to beat surge in job applications

With AI making it easier to apply for jobs en masse, small early careers teams in particular are feeling the strain. ISE members offer advice.

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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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Opinion
Mar 05, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment

Key takeaways from biggest ever ISE Apprenticeship event

There was a record turnout for this year’s ISE Apprenticeship Conference. Simon Reichwald, Chief Progression Officer at Connectr, ISE Fellow and apprenticeship champion, shares key takeaways.

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Case Study
Feb 19, 2025
Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

Amazon is addressing AI's impact on early career recruitment

Robert Newry at Arctic Shores caught up with Lauren Gladwell, Recruitment Manager for EMEA Apprenticeships at Amazon, about the adoption of AI by candidates and within her hiring practices.

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Feature
Feb 17, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment

10 most popular apprenticeship articles of the year

To mark National Apprenticeship Week, ISE is taking a look back at the last year to bring you our most popular data, advice and best practice from the wonderful world of apprenticeships.

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Know-how
Feb 05, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Future, Graduate Recruitment...

How to leverage AI in recruitment today and in the future

Cappfinity examines how AI is being used in each stage of talent acquisition today, and how it might be used in the future to inform end-to-end recruitment strategy development.

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Opinion
Jan 28, 2025
Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Future, Graduate Selection & Assessment, Technology

3 assessment trends to watch in 2025

2024 was a disruptive year for online assessment, and 2025 will be an evolve-or-die moment for many test formats. Ben Schwencke, Chief Psychologist at Test Partnership, shares the trends we need to watch.

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Research
Jan 15, 2025
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing...

Candidate & employer trends for early careers hiring in 2025

Employer and candidate research from Amberjack provides valuable insight for early careers hiring in 2025.

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