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ISE research helps employers, universities, suppliers, and wider stakeholders in the student recruitment and development industry make well-informed decisions about student talent. All of our reports are listed below. Some are only available to ISE members. Publications that are more than a decade old are deposited in the Digital Education Resource Archive for public use.

 

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Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Future, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing...

ISE Student Recruitment Survey 2025 Access Now

Just launched! Discover the trends from the largest group of early careers employers in the UK.

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Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment, Future, Graduate Recruitment, Graduate Attraction & Marketing...

ISE Recruitment Survey 2025 - Data dashbards Members Only

Discover key trends in student recruitment with these interactive dashboards, with the ability to filter by sector and region.

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ISE Student Development Survey 2025 Access Now

Despite an uncertain economic and political environment, ISE members continue to hire more student onto their development programmes. Find an in-depth analysis of data from employer members across a range of sectors and discover trends in development programmes for graduates and school and college leavers.

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Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

Student Recruitment Survey 2024 Access Now

The student labour market is directly affected by global and national economic forces, the political environment, and the changing needs of employers and students. The ISE Recruitment Survey identifies a number of significant trends driven by these pressures.

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Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

Student Development Survey 2024 Access Now

This year's report reveals key findings in the age of AI, the top skills being developed to equip GenZ hires for the world of work, and the top reasons GenZ employees are leaving organisations.

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Data dashboard 2025: AI in recruitment Members Only

Discover the data surrounding policies and guidance for candidate use, cheating, benefits and drawbacks of using AI in the recruitment process, and the future outlook.

Apprentice Recruitment, Future, Graduate Recruitment, Policy, Strategy, Technology

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Data dashboard 2025: Recruitment pathways Members Only

Discover an insight into market health, view recruitment growth between 2023/24 and 2024/25, applications per hire for each pathway and the ratio of graduates to school and college leavers.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Internships & Placements

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Data dashboard 2025: Apprenticeships Members Only

View the apprenticeships levels organisations are recruiting by sector and pathway.

Apprentice Attraction & Marketing, Apprentice Recruitment, Apprentice Selection & Assessment

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Data dashboard 2025: Recruitment campaigns Members Only

Discover the number of recruitment intakes per year and the recruitment campaign schedules.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

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Data dashboard 2025: Selection Members Only

Here we cover the minimum entry requirements for graduates.

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Data dashboard 2025: Salaries Members Only

Discover typical starting salaries indexed for inflation and salaries after three years by sector and region.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

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Data dashboard 2025: Resourcing and cost per hire Members Only

Find the typical student to recruiter ratio and cost per student hire.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment, Strategy

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Data Dashboards: Student Development 2025 Members Only

We've gathered the data from our Student Development survey into these digestible, interactive dashboards.

Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

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Data dashboards: Student Recruitment 2024 Members Only

We've gathered the data from our Student Recruitment survey into these digestible, interactive dashboards.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

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Student Development Survey 2023 Members Only

Student mental health, the cost-of-living crisis, hybrid working and retention of employees, all are issues that have made headlines in recent months. They are also the concerns of those who manage student development programmes. In this year’s ISE development survey we have added analysis on retention, working practices and programme design to understand how our sector is responding to the pressures faced by employers and their early career hires.

Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

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Student Recruitment Survey 2023 Members Only

The student labour market is directly affected by global and national economic forces, the political environment, and the changing needs of employers and students. The ISE Recruitment Survey identifies a number of significant trends driven by these pressures.

Apprentice Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment

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Student Recruitment Survey 2022

The student labour market is directly affected by global and national economic forces, the political environment, and the changing needs of employers and students. This year's ISE Recruitment Survey identifies a number of significant trends driven by these pressures.

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Student Development Survey 2022 Members Only

There has never been a greater need to invest in early talent development programmes. High vacancy rates, low unemployment, and decreasing participation are all creating a shortage of talent for employers. A strong, retained, early talent pipeline is how employers can help meet their future resourcing needs, and this report provides the analysis to build effective development programmes.

Apprentice Development, Graduate Development

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