The Guardian UK 300

Today see's the launch of a survey of students and graduates and the companies they want to work for. Similar to the Times Top 100 this survey adds 200 more to the list. It's great to see that more graduate recruiters are being revealed in this suurvey but it is by no means the full picture.

This year there were 60,000 graduate jobs available. 16,000 or 27% were from blue-chip recruiters, most are included in this survey. Graduates should and will apply for these roles and, as ever, competition will be tough. Smart graduates will have a strategy that appreciates 73% of graduate jobs remain hidden and include other techniques so they have the best possible choice of job offers. The only way to hear about these hidden jobs tend to be from either knowing the right people in ther first place through your own personal connections or enlisting the help of recruitment agents who have exclusive contracts with employers to source graduates.

The economy has changed forever forcing graduate recruiters to look for more cost-effective ways to recruit which very often can mean outsourcing to recruitment specialists so from now on graduates must adapt their job hunting strategy too to take in as many information sources as possible.

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