Welcome back from Easter!

Carl Gilleard (Chief Executive of the AGR) spoke at the last Recruitment Society event about how graduate recruitment is going to pan out in the next 12 years.

Ri5 - UK’s Graduate Recruitment Challenge

He addressed the issue of Generation Y directly and warned of the forthcoming decline of the youth market, which will further exacerbate the ‘war for talent’. Recruiters will face increasing competition for the same pool of graduates if they do not diversify and open themselves to talent from other sources.  As mentioned by Gilleard, this could include looking internationally, beyond 2:1 or beyond ‘gen-y’.

The first session of the Exploding Myths conference will be devoted to this issue, and in tackling the myth that “Employers must adapt their graduate recruitment practices to accommodate the needs of Generation Y” we will explore the options for discovering talent beyond this small cohort of graduates.

We will start to take bookings for the conference from Monday 31 March, but email me now to reserve your place: forum@careers.lon.ac.uk