2. 20 minutes
• Nicola Turner, Acting Director of Employability,
Aston University and Martin Edmondson,
Chief Executive, Graduates Yorkshire
– Graduate Employment in 2011
– A range of perspectives
– National SME Survey results
– Key Messages
– Questions to consider
3.
4. Graduate Employment 2011
• What happens • AGR average
to the other grad salary
44? £25k
“45 graduates “Average
chasing each graduate salary
job” is £29k”
“Unemployment
“48% of Finalists
rate for 16-24
seeking work in
London” year olds is at an
all time high”
• Do they all get • 700,000 more
jobs in graduating this
London? summer
5. A range of perspectives
Graduates
Employers, Universities
Parents
Rankings
Government
Media
6. Graduate Network presents: National
Employer Survey 2011
Sent to 32,000 regional
employers
453 Responses – 90% SMEs
62% have recruited a grad in the last 12
months and 56% plan to recruit in 2011
1.5% believe degree result is the most
important factor when recruiting graduates
7. Graduate salaries outside London
median salary £29k
HESA stats 2009 UK graduate salary range
£15 – 23k
86% think a grad salary should be between
£12,000 & £22,000 with £15,000 - £18,000
proving to be the most popular bracket.
8. High Fliers 2011
CLASS OF 2011
Investment banking popular choice for first time in
three years
Public-sector jobs decline in popularity for
applicants
Students applying earlier and more often
London most popular destination in 25 out of 30
universities
Top university students expect starting salaries of
£25,000+
25% want to stay for postgraduate courses
9. Benefits of employing graduates
Benefits What % of employers agree
Strengthen resource 96%
Introduce new ideas 92%
Produce future leaders 85%
Increase productivity 83%
Up-skill your workforce 70%
Give specialist knowledge 58%
10. Key messages
Graduates
• The 3-way disconnect:
Universities Employers
• Strategy being built on dangerous assumptions
• London is a different graduate recruitment world
from the rest of the UK
• Not trying to drive down salaries
• Strength in London + wider UK is good for all
11. Questions to consider
• What information are you building your strategy
on?
• What expectations are you giving graduates?
• Why do you recruit graduates, and do you know
what they want?
• How are you balancing/weighting all of the
external forces that impact on graduate
employment?
• How should your local, regional, national and
global graduate employment strategy vary?
