NEWS Retail market
TESCO BOOSTS GRADUATE INTAKE BY 30 PER CENT
The UK’s largest private sector employer Tesco is set to recruit 440 graduates in the next 12 months. Entry-level positions will open up across 17 schemes in operations, distribution and head office. Tesco operates in 14 countries across the world, which means a number of the UK schemes
offer graduates the opportunity to work abroad as part of their training, too. Judith Nelson, UK personnel director at Tesco, said: “Our focus is providing the skills and
training for a career for life. Our current chief executive Philip Clarke was a Tesco graduate trainee – we aim to find the Philip Clarkes of tomorrow and provide them with the skills and training they need for a long and successful career.” n
The future
Great expectations for Generation Y
Generation Y is “ambitious, strongly motivated by money, status and career advancement” with “high career expectations”, according to the Institute of Leadership and Management. More than half of graduates
(56 per cent) expect to be in a management role within three years, 36 per cent are dissatisfied with career advancement in their current organisation. Graduates also say salary (45 per cent), job status (30 per cent) and achievement in work (38 per cent) are all currently below their current expectations. n
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Graduate results
2:2 GRADS SAY THEY DIDN’T WORK HARD ENOUGH
Some 37 per cent of 2011 graduates who achieved a 2:2 admit they simply didn’t work hard enough, a rise of two per cent compared to last year. A further 25 per cent claimed they
had issues of one kind or another that affected their studies and/or family, health or financial issues. One in five admitted that they worked as hard as they could and a 2:2 was the best they could achieve.n
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GradJobs.co.uk | Autumn 2011 Job market
NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS SOAR TO 83 PER VACANCY
The number of graduates applying for each graduate job has reached a record high, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters bi-annual survey, increasing from 69 per vacancy last year. The survey also revealed the average
starting salary has increased by two per cent to £25,500, which is the first increase since 2008, and graduate vacancies are predicted to rise by 2.6 per cent, which is good news. Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the AGR,
said: “I am cautiously optimistic about today’s findings, which provides a welcome indication that the graduate recruitment market is beginning to overcome the impact of the recession.” n
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Quick fix... 22,000 The number of
graduates the top 202 recruiters intend to recruit this year
Sourced from the Association of Graduate Recruiters bi-annual survey
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