The 11th annual Graduate Recruitment and Development Conference will share the latest strategies to attract, 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:
The conference will provide plenty of opportunity for you to network with other industry professionals and share your graduate recruitment ideas and challenges.
Who should attend:
Head of Recruitment / Talent acquisition
Head of HR
Learning and development Directors/Managers
Talent Management
Employee Relations
Emerging talent
Graduate Recruitment Managers
Early careers Managers
Campus / school Engagement Managers
Student Acquisition Managers
PLEASE READ – IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT PRESENTATIONS
Download detailed instructions here.
For environmental reasons, we do not print conference presentations. They become available as a download in your account on this site, shortly before the event.
When your order is completed online, an account it automatically created for you.
Please remember the account login and password you created during the event registration process. You will need this to access the presentations.
The event presentations are added to this account shortly before the seminar and can then be downloaded. We will notify you when they are available.
IF YOU BOOK FOR A COLLEAGUE PLEASE TELL THEM THIS…
In order for people to get the presentations they have to download them from an account on this website.
If you made the booking, you can download them for your colleague as you already have an account – or they can create their own account.
To create an account, the attendee will need to purchase the documentation directly from the site. Don’t worry – we will email them a “Coupon Code” to input which makes the purchase free of charge.
Normally we email all attendees to notify them when the documentation is available online about one week before the event. We include account set up instructions and the Coupon Code with that email.
IF YOU LOSE YOUR PASSWORD OR LOGIN DETAILS
You can find the LOST PASSWORD screen under “MY ACCOUNT” on the top menu of our site or by clicking HERE.
Generally coffee and light refreshments are available on arrival and at tea and coffee breaks throughout the day. The times of these are made clear in the event programme.
Lunch is served on full day events. We arrange a buffet with a selection of options to accommodate different dietary requirements, but if you have specific needs please feel free add this on the ‘additional information’ section of the online booking for or to email us. Contact us here.
If you have been sent a discount or special offer ‘coupon code’ this can be entered in the shopping cart while booking and your discount will be applied to your purchase.
Don’t worry. You don’t need the ‘ticket’, it’s just produced by the booking software to confirm the order.
If you added delegate details on the booking form when you completed your order or told us by phone or email the names of the attendees, these people will be registered and do not need to bring the ‘ticket’.
Sorry, but suppliers may not attend as delegates.
We do allow a strictly limited number of suppliers to exhibit. Further exhibitor information can be found here or by calling our sales team on 020 7231 5100.
Payment can be made by credit card when you book, or you can specify cheque, bank transfer or invoice etc. once you complete the registration form.
An invoice or receipt is automatically sent once booking is completed online.
For cheque and BACS payments, our account details can be downloaded here.
Credit card details can be taken by telephone, please call our account department on +44 (0)20 7231 5100. We do not store any credit card details used for payment.
Online credit card payments are transacted via Paypal – you do not need a Paypal account to use this facility.
You can book online
Simply scroll down the page to the “Tickets” section. Select the number of places you wish to book and then click “Add to Cart”. You will then be taken to the shopping cart where you can confirm your purchase details, enter any discount or special offer coupon codes you may have, and arrange payment.
You can book by telephone
Simply call us on 020 7231 5100.
Changes are sometimes needed due to circumstances beyond our control such as trainers being ill, poor weather and so on. In the very rare circumstances that we need to change the date for an event we will automatically offer you a place on the next available event date. If this is not suitable for you we will refund your booking fee.
We cannot accept liability for travel and accommodation costs and strongly advise you not to book cheap ‘non-refundable / no change’ tickets and to check your insurance covers travel and accommodation in these circumstances.
Yes! Some of our events are actually held at hotels, but not all of them, so we have put together a page to help you find a suitable hotel near all of our main venues.
Please see our full terms and conditions here .
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cut-e cut-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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TARGETrecruit TARGETrecruit, part of Group GTI, is one of the world’s leading early careers outsourcing recruitment specialists. They are passionate about early careers recruitment and are fully embedded in the early careers market – and it shows in their results. They bring the latest ideas, innovation and best practice to their clients’ campaigns, allowing them to recruit the highest calibre talent for their apprentice, school leaver and graduate opportunities. Some of TARGETrecruit’s clients outsource their complete early careers recruitment campaigns to them, while others use them to support or develop specific elements of their recruitment process such as marketing and attraction, application screening, telephone and video interviewing, candidate managements, and assessment centre design. |
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Milkround Milkround 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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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. |
If your organisation would be interested in promoting itself through the wide variety of exhibitions, sponsorship and marketing opportunities available at this event, please visit our sponsorship mini-site or contact our sales team at sales@symposium-events.co.uk or 020 7231 5100.
09:00 | Coffee and Registration | ||
09:30 | Chair’s opening remarks – Paul Blackmore, Head of Student Employment, University of Exeter | ||
09:45 |
New frontiers in talent assessment
Cut-e |
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10:10 |
Case Study: How to factor in diversity and inclusion in to your graduate schemes The Lloyd’s commitment was to reflect the diversity of their customer base and the communities they support more closely
Samantha Wainwright, Lead Recruitment Manager, Emerging Talent Programmes, Lloyds Banking Group |
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10:35 |
Questions and discussion with speakers |
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10:45 |
Panel: How to improve your social media offering to attract more graduates
TBC, Milkround James Mehmed, Organisational Development Lead, Suffolk County Council |
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11:10 | Refreshments and networking | ||
11:30 |
Case Study: The gamification of recruitment
Sarah Harte, Graduate Talent Manager, Taylor Wessing |
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11:55 |
Content to be announced soon! Saville Assessment |
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12:20 | Questions and discussion with speaker | ||
12:30 | Lunch and networking | ||
13:30 |
Marketing Insights: Current and future trends in graduate recruitment
TARGETrecruit |
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14:00 |
STREAM A – Case Study: Employer branding is key – from attraction to retention
Aileen Cowler, Learning & Development Specialist, NFU Mutual |
14:00 |
STREAM B – Innovating your graduate offer all year round
Catherine Stoneham, Head of HR, Explore Learning |
14:25 |
STREAM A – Lead with values: from onboarding to development
Jessica Farley, Talent Development Manager, Coventry Building Society |
14:25 |
STREAM B – ‘Joining up the dots’ – a collaborative approach to growing future public sector leaders Discover how Suffolk County Council:
James Mehmed, Organisational Development Lead, Suffolk County Council |
14:50 | Questions and discussion with speakers | 14:50 | Questions and discussion with speakers |
15:00 | Refreshments and networking | ||
15:20 |
Panel discussion – The challenges of selection criteria: does academic success yield the best results?
Samantha Wainwright, Lead Recruitment Manager, Emerging Talent Programmes, Lloyds Banking Group Catherine Stoneham, Head of HR, Explore Learning Laura Nielsen, Head of Early Careers – Acquisition and GRaduate Development, Thales |
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15:45 |
Global Graduate Development Stacey Turner, Talent Development Manager, Early Careers, Dyson |
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16:10 | Questions and discussion with speakers | ||
16:20 | Chair’s closing remarks and end of conference |
*Please note these prices are for in house HR practitioners. Suppliers who are interested in attending should contact Tony Okbani on 020 7231 5100 or via this form for more information.