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KPMG & TTF: A new model for work experience

The Talent Foundry, KPMG UK and The Careers & Enterprise Company collaborated to develop a pilot model for modern work experience.

Nov 05, 2025
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Nov 03, 2025

How do students find out about employment opportunities?

New research by Lancaster University shines a light on how students find out about jobs, providing useful insight for employer attraction campaigns.

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Nov 03, 2025

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.

How Channel 4 is scaling virtual work experience

Channel 4 in partnership with Talent People, has reimagined work experience through a virtual model. This opens up creative careers to thousands of people across the UK, balancing scale and inclusivity with meaningful engagement.

From ‘Early Talent’ to Emerging Talent: ISE Podcast

Latest episode. Stephen speaks with David Edwards, Head of Workforce Planning at Ericsson

How can employers manage and adapt to mass applications?

Student recruitment is under pressure, with record applications and AI reshaping the hiring process. ISE’s Anne-Marie Campion shares insight and advice from our latest webinar.

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.

ISE Insights

We work to provide expert information and insight to our member organisations and deliver comprehensive research on range of issues affecting graduate, intern and apprenticeship recruitment and development.

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ISE Research

ISE research helps employers, universities, suppliers, and wider stakeholders in the student recruitment and development industry make well-informed decisions about student talent. 

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ISE Recruitment Survey 2025 - Data dashboards 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.

Ten years ago, not many ISE members were hiring school leavers, now they are.

Ten years from now, we expect many ISE member recruitment teams will not only still target school leavers and graduates, but also career changers, older workers and internal candidates.

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Here you will find the content the ISE Apprenticeships Working Group has been working hard on delivering. 

In order to inform employers of the value of apprenticeships for their organisation.

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Find research, case studies, advice and information curated by ISE’s EDI Working Group to support members in their EDI journey.

From starting out and building a business case to developing a strategy and measuring performance.

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