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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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Case Study
Oct 06, 2026
Strategy, Work Experience – Schools

BDO blends virtual & in-person work experience for impact

In a competitive talent market work experience is an important way of broadening access to careers and engaging future talent early. Jane Baker explains how BDO has developed their strategy both in-person and virtually.

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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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Case Study
Aug 07, 2026
Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

How AWE redesigned its keep warm experience

AWE explains how it has shifted its approach to keep warm activity from traditional engagement to a cohort-led, function-owned experience.

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Case Study
Jul 27, 2026
Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Graduate Attraction & Marketing...

How Tesco early careers are targeting NEET young people

Tesco’s focus on NEET young people has become a core part of its early careers strategy. Apprenticeship and Graduate Talent Acquisition Manager, Lynda Jackson explains the rationale, approach and delivery.

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Feature
Jun 29, 2026
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Development, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

Who won at the ISE Awards 2026?

Early careers professionals came together in sunny Brighton to celebrate achievement, share best practice and recognise outstanding contributions to the profession.

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Know-how
May 27, 2026
Apprentice Development, Graduate Development, Strategy

Strategic ROI: analysing data and influencing decisions

In a tight economic climate, where businesses expect development teams to deliver more with less, proving the value of early careers hiring has never been more important, explains ISE’s Anne-Marie Campion.

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Case Study
Mar 30, 2026
Strategy, Work Experience – Schools

Severn Trent: A strategic approach to work experience

Severn Trent left behind an ad-hoc, reactive approach for high-quality, inclusive work experience at scale – and they’re reaping the rewards. Here’s how.

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Opinion
Mar 24, 2026
Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

We can’t solve long-term skills gap with short-term thinking

Solving the skills gap isn’t about hiring ready-made talent, but about how quickly they can learn what the business needs tomorrow, explains Simon Reichwald at Connectr and Chris Shirley at Form the Future.

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Case Study
Nov 17, 2025
Apprentice Development, Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Development, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

What’s behind Sky’s most successful early careers strategy?

Sky was crowned with the Most Successful Early Careers Strategy at this year’s ISE Awards. Early Careers Senior Consultant, Charlotte Stephenson, explains how they did it.

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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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