HEAR An employers perspective

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HEARAn employers perspective

• Stephen Isherwood
• Head of Graduate Recruitment, UK Ireland

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An insight into

• The Graduate Market
• The trials and tribulations of a graduate
  recruiter
• Why HEARs are important to us
• Employer perspectives on the HEAR
• Questions

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Context - Graduate market

• Graduate numbers
• 335,000 students graduated in 2008
• 260,000 graduated in 1999
• 175,000 in 1994
• Graduate vacancies (top 100 graduate employers)
• 19,900 vacancies in 2008
• 14,300 in 2009
• EY Opportunities
• 500 graduate places across UK Ireland
• 200 internship places

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Context Ernst Young

• Recruitment challenge
• c15,000 applications per year
• c2,000 interviews
• c900 put through assessment centres
• And we still have vacancies at year end
• Constraints
• Professional qualifications/academics
• All-rounders for a modern workforce
• The finite resources of a cost base

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Recruitment goals

• Greater diversity
• Improved quality
• Positive experience
• Efficient

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Getting to the heart of a candidate
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How can HEARs help?

• We know the current system is flawed
• Greater transparency fairer recruitment
• Enhanced diversity
• Risk reduction
• Efficiency gains

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Employers views

• Feedback process
• AGR conference workshops
• AGR sector group presentation and feedback

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Employer views

• Broadly supportive
• Will provide addition information at screening
  stage
• Simplicity and conciseness important
• Quality and robustness of content important
• Preference for an electronic format
• Most graduate recruitment selection occurs prior
  to graduation

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Questions?