Your Graduates and You : Effective Strategies for Graduate Recruitment and Development

There is a trend towards corporate "umbrella" entry schemes, where a range of jobs, careers and training programmes for graduates, exist in a federal organizational structure.

This approach can help employers meet their diverse business needs for graduates, and can be seen as attractive to graduates.

But it risks failing to deliver on the ground due to poor management of graduate development and careers.

Increasing importance of a good "cultural fit" between graduates, the entry approach chosen, and the organization.

An update of IES research in the 1990s on graduate entry and early career development, this new research examines how employers' graduate strategies are changing in the light of recent business, labour market and other changes.

It identifies three main "drivers" of a good strategy - clarity of strategic intention for recruiting graduates; appropriate internal organizational arrangements, in particular the degree to which there needs to be corporate involvement; and providing varying amounts of planned, structured development to meet different business and graduate needs.