GRBs clients definitely bounced back last year and gave us hundreds of assignments to recruit for. For the next 12 months we anticipate this demand to continue if not increase. We find graduates roles on schemes as well as non-scheme roles (which aren't advertised) and across the board the news is generally positive. This latest report from High Fliers reflects the situation among the UKs top recruiters and their projections for recruitment to their graduate schemes.
Investment banks are offering one 25% fewer entry-level roles than before the recession, and graduate intakes at engineering companies are down a third, according to the study. Despite 2 years of growth, there are still 6% fewer graduate vacancies being offered by large recruiters than in 2007. The report shows a 9.4 per cent rise in recruitment for 2011, and a 12.6 per cent increase in 2010. PwC, Deloitte and KPMG each recruit between 900 and 1,200 graduates a year. Teach First, a programme to encourage high-flying graduates to become teachers, is in fourth, recruiting 780 graduates.
The graduate labour market remains tight and cohorts leaving university are growing. Unemployment among people aged 18 to 24 is 18%, compared with 8%for the population at large.
