Rising Stars

Dear all

Another eventful week at GRB with lots of graduate recruitment activity occurring. For instance we have been asked to tender for several graduate recruiters looking for suppliers - and these campaigns are for hundreds of graduates so everyone benefits enormously if we secure these contracts. The ultimate is reaching a recruiters PSL or Preferred Suppliers List - for which we are already on many. For graduates this means they will only be able to apply for this employers graduate roles through GRB. These jobs remain hidden from other graduates so it is imperative to sign up with a specialist agency as they can provide the most direct route to some top-tier recruiters.

Apart from that our Rising Stars programme has been well received by over 300 members of AGR including Universities who are keen to have their students considered. We have taken many enquiries from interested recruiters and have begun to schedule interviews for some of our Rising Stars. New additions to the site include several news articles referring to the positive economic outlook and healthy predictions for this years graduates seeking work. We also launched our own YouTube channel full of video advice on seeking graduate jobs.

Check it out!

Best regards

Dan Hawes

GRB Staff Make It In Despite The Snow

Good afternoon

Thank goodness all the snow has cleared. The South Downs looked very pretty but try getting into work on a motorbike! Thankfully the trains and some buses braved the conditions and well done to everyone at GRB making it into the office. Well the highlight of this week has to be the launch of our new graduate recruitment initiative - RISING STARS.

We anticipate the graduate jobs market to be slightly better than last year (a recent survey predicts a 12% rise in graduate vacancies) however it will be more competitive as this years grads tough it out with last years grads who either went onto further study, travelled or temped. We therefore feel, as the UKs leading graduate recruitment consultancy, duty bound to go the extra mile for this years graduating students.

As a new service to finalists GRB has launched RISING STARS to profile this new wave of future movers and shakers. The GRB team have searched, screened and selected 50 of the UKs most exceptional finalists looking to launch their career in 2010. Employers can request an account here or students can apply to be considered here.

I also noticed an interesting statistic this week released by HESA. The HESA Destinations of Leavers from HE Survey 2007/08* revealed that "recruitment agencies/websites" accounted for 34,190 sources of jobs, higher than many other traditional routes. More info here.

And finally, the GRB Marketing team released the new homepage for GRB giving users an easier and better-looking interface. Hope you like it!

Bye!

Dan Hawes

GRB Celebrates Christmas!

Hello and Happy New Year to you!

Welcome back after the festive break. As you can see from the photo GRB celebrated by going for a meal at a local restaurant, Seven Dials, which was very nice. This picture shows charades being played and one of our staff members falling down (and no that wasn't the film he was trying to act out!).

Anyway we all came back on the 4th and it's all systems go here at GRB despite the weather. January is when we plan our objectives to help even more of the UKs finest graduates launch their careers so expect a new look site, new content, new initiatives and even more recruiters forecast to use our services so it's going to be an improvement on 2009.

General predictions for the economy this year are showing very "sluggish" growth and flat being the new up, whatever that means, but for graduates entering the job market in the Summer it will be more competitive as they find themselves competing with last years graduates so it pays to use as many job hunting strategies as possible to increase your chances of finding work.

I'm off to Brick Lane tomorrow for a Birthday curry so see you again next week. Here's to a good 2010.

Best regards

Dan Hawes