Description
Summary
The 10th annual Graduate Recruitment and Development Conference will share the latest strategies toattract, retain and develop the brightest graduate talent in the current competitive market.
The conference is an opportunity to hear about best practice strategies from industry leaders across the sectors. It is designed to offer HR and Recruitment professionals responsible for hiring and developing graduates a chance to uncover both the strategic and practical elements of implementing a successful and innovative graduate programme.
Through attending the Conference, you will:
- Understand the value and contribution of graduates to your organisation, your bottomline, innovation and talent pipeline
- Hear about the latest studies on the needs and wants of graduates to be able to develop an attractive, engaging and robust graduate recruitment programme
- Develop a strong, authentic and appealing graduate employer brand to improve attraction, alignment and retention
- Discover innovative approaches to developing graduates
- Hear from best practice organisations on their successful graduate programmes; their challenges, the strategy and outcomes
The conference will provide plenty of opportunity for you to network with other industry professionals and share your graduate recruitment ideas and challenges.
Programme
Speakers
| CHAIR – Jane Campbell, Head of Student Careers, University of Leeds
Jane Campbell is the Head of Student Careers at the University of Leeds, a post she has held for the last two and a half years. She is a careers guidance professional with over 25 years’ experience in various sectors including higher education, further education, adult education and schools. She spent over 20 years working with young people latterly as a director of a company providing careers information, advice and guidance to 13-25 year olds in Bradford. Before moving to her current post Jane worked for the Open University managing student services in the Leeds office. Since becoming Head of Student Careers in Leeds, Jane has led on developing faculty based teams, a new set of KPIs for employability and student mentoring. She is currently working with local employers to encourage students to think about the opportunities available in the region after graduation. |
| Jane Clark – Director, Group Head of Graduate Resourcing and Development, Barclays
Jane is the Group Head of Graduate Resourcing and Development at Barclays. She is responsible for driving strategic plans to attract, develop and retain best-in-class junior talent. This involves developing and driving change in specific objectives to include candidate relationship management, strategy development, workforce planning, talent management, employer brand strategies and diversity. Jane has spent the last twenty years working in a variety of roles within the global investment banking industry with companies such as Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lymch. Jane is a member of Universum’s Global Advisory Board, a member of the Employer Advisory Board for the University of Birmingham, a member of the Sutton Trust’s Education Advisory group and was recently appointed onto the Board of First Story. |
| Benjamin Jackson, Head of Student Recruitment, Deloitte
Benjamin has worked in recruitment for 17 years with a broad mix of in-house (Motorola, Hays, Capita, Service Innovation Group) and RPO experience. He was a board director of one of the UK’s leading student recruitment outsourcing businesses for six years, before setting up his own consultancy business, TalentPunk, in 2014. He has helped more than 40 businesses set up, run and optimise their student recruitment functions, and is currently Interim Head of Student Recruitment for Deloitte, where his team is responsible for hiring more than 1,800 students and graduates every year for multiple programmes across the UK. Benjamin is a self confessed data geek and is a regular trainer at Symposium training days. |
| Tapuwa Mtutu, Talent Acquisition and Campus Hiring Specialist, Dell
Tapuwa Mtutu has been with Dell EMC for 4 and a half years, where she came to head up the Graduate Recruiting function in EMEA. This included launching Dell EMC’s brand at target universities across EMEA and bringing the international graduate schemes into the region. The role included developing and executing the campus recruiting strategy for 23 countries in EMEA by partnering with Dell EMC’s USA based programme office. The Dell EMC campus brand has evolved over the year and Dell EMC has now been included in the Top Companies for Graduate to Work at. Tapuwa is from Zimbabwe and studied at the University of Cape Town. She has nearly 12 years of international graduate recruiting experience with specialities in EMEA and the emerging markets. |
| Howard Grosvenor, Director of Professional Services, cut-e.
Howard Grosvenor is the Director of Professional Services for cut-e . He develops the infrastructure for a skilled, pragmatic and professional consulting team, ensuring projects are delivered to the highest standards of professional practice. Some of his recent projects include: the design and implementation of an online assessment process for a national retail group, including an evaluation of the return on investment of using assessment tools; a business research project to understand key drivers of sales success in a pan-European technology company; assessment process design for a national property development and investment company; and the re-accreditation of cut-e client training packages to new European professional standards. |
| David Palmer, UK Research Manager, Trendence UK
David Palmer is the UK Research Manager at Trendence UK, a specialist market research company that focuses on helping organisations to effectively reach and recruit university and school students. Prior to joining Trendence UK in 2013, David read English at Exeter College, Oxford. |
| Ami Varden, Commercial Consultant, Saville Assessment
Prior to joining Saville Assessment, Ami spent two years working in the graduate recruitment space. In her role as Commercial Consultant, Ami combines her client side recruitment experience with a strong business psychology background to work with clients and create the best possible assessment solutions. Ami has previously presented at AGR events sharing case studies on how graduate recruiters are packaging the perfect assessment process and engaging with a tech-savvy generation. In her current role Ami’s focus is around managing the transition of new relationships with clients across the private and public sector, understanding their requirements and developing solutions which transform how they hire, build and lead their talent. |
| Alastair Frater, Business Psychologist, Saville Asessment
Alastair is a Business Psychologist with Saville Assessment, helping organisations recruit and develop top talent. Alastair works with a number of clients on their graduate recruitment programmes including Thales, Johnson & Johnson, Fujitsu and Dyson. Alastair uses his consultative approach to promote best practice and ensure the assessment solutions used add real value to selection decisions. With his graduate clients, Alastair has seen impressive metrics including accelerating time to hire, reducing assessment centre drop out and increasing successful hires by 50%. Alastair is passionate about empowering clients and working collaboratively to create bespoke packages including Situational Judgement Tests, assessment centre materials and interview guides to exceed client expectations. |
| Nicky Garcea, Co-Founding Director, Chief Customer Officer, Capp
Nicky co-founded Capp along with Alex Linley in 2005. Along with her Board members, she helps to lead the Capp business to deliver on its vision of matching the world to its perfect job. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist by background. Her role at Capp for the last 10 years has been to ensure Capp delivers on its clients promises, that accounts grow and that customers are delighted. Nicky has helped to grow the Capp business and in particular nurture existing Capp clients. Accounts that she has helped to support and work with over the years include Barclays Bank, EY, Capgemini, Lidl, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank and Thomson Reuters. Nicky’s passion is taking client feedback and building it into Capp’s product roadmap, so that they take to market products and solutions that are innovative but meet client needs exactly. |
| Jamie Betts. Head of Recruitment Solutions, Virtual Reality Assessment Lead, Capp
Jamie joined Capp in 2012. His current role is Head of Recruitment Solutions which involves working with a wide range of clients to help design and develop bespoke strengths-based assessment solutions. He has worked with a wide range of clients across multiple sectors including Lloyds Banking Group, AB Inbev and Microsoft. Jamie has a passion for innovation and his most recent work has been to lead the research and development of the world’s first virtual reality assessment platform – the Capp VR Assessment Lab. |
| Victoria Butt, HR Professional, Atomic Weapons Establishment
Victoria is an HR professional with OD and Talent expertise across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, logistics, retail / wholesale, service, oil, gas, utilities and defence. She is particularly interested in how technology can help organisations transform the way they manage and support their people. Victoria is currently supporting the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) to develop a company-wide Early Careers Programmes and create strategies and solutions to develop and retain ‘top talent’ and promote Diversity and Inclusion. |
| Francesca Parkinson, Head of Marketing, Milkround
Francesca is Head of Marketing at Milkround, the UK’s most widely used student and graduate job website. As a member of the senior management team, Francesca is responsible for defining the effective and measurable implementation of a fully integrated marketing strategy across Milround and Milkround School Leavers B2B and B2C. |
Sponsors
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cut-ecut-e is a world leader in the design and implementation of online psychometric assessments and related talent solutions. Assessing over 7 million people per year with tools in 40 languages and offices in 33 countries around the world cut-e helps many of the world’s most successful organisations to select and develop the best talent. Organisations such as Dell, Emirates, Rolls Royce, Aer Lingus, O2 Telefonica and Burger King all trust cut-e to help them hire and develop the best people for their organisations. |
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GTI Recruiting SolutionsGTI Recruiting Solutions is one of the world’s leading student and graduate outsourcing recruitment specialists. We bring the latest ideas, innovation and best practice to our clients’ campaigns, allowing them to recruit the best fit talent for their organisations. We focus on building long standing relationships with a small number of clients, achieved only by delivering proven, measurable results providing real benefits to all stakeholders within their businesses. |
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MilkroundMilkround is your graduate career resource with hundreds of internships, placements, graduate jobs and schemes. Start your job search here, or use our advice pages to research careers and help with your decision making. We’re committed to giving students and graduates career confidence, and that means conquering fears of finding, applying and making that first step on the career ladder. With Milkround you get direct access to employers. |
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CappUsing their pioneering strengths-based assessment techniques and recruitment solutions, organisations around the world are hiring candidates that are a perfect fit for their business – seeing new hires settle in quicker, perform better in their roles and be more productive over time. Their early career solutions from attraction through to induction have helped organisations including EY, Nestle, BT and Lloyds Banking Group attract, select, develop and retain the very best candidates. |
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Saville Assessment, a Willis Towers Watson CompanySaville Assessment’s leading-edge solutions ensure graduate recruiters achieve results. Identifying graduates with the highest potential and best fit, clients enjoy industry-leading engagement rates, savings in screening costs and a decreased dropout rate. Balancing technology, innovation and candidate experience, at the heart of their assessments is a guarantee to objectively and fairly identify the right people for the right roles with solutions that add real value to selection decisions.Their pioneering Situational Judgement Tests, Aptitude Assessments and Behavioural Screening Questionnaires are used by clients including Dyson, Thales, Johnson & Johnson and Jaguar Land Rover who book with Saville to transform their assessment process and lead the way in graduate talent. |
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TheJobCrowd: Recognition, Promotion, InsightTheJobCrowd is a multimedia community for early careers. They proudly host the annual Early Career Top Companies Ranking, based on thousands of anonymous company reviews. They offer employers:
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