NEWS ASSESSING TALENT
According to Steve O’Dell, CEO of talent assessment specialist, Talent Q, a major rethinking of industry’s graduate selection processes is long overdue. Instead, he recommends, the focus
should move from outdated assessment models and towards ones that provide candidates with a worthwhile experience. Talent Q suggests organisations
‘front-load’ their hiring process with job-relevant assessments, in order to put a higher proportion of the right kind of candidate through to an assessment centre.
Steve O’Dell said: “Large companies
need to find suitable candidates from tens of thousands of applicants. Those that aren’t making use of the combination of technology and assessment need to rethink their selection process now. “The old assumptions that assessments are expensive and difficult to implement don’t hold true anymore. Assessments offer an objective and valid way to screen applicants, allowing those who closely match the specific competencies of the role to proceed.” He added: “Robust assessment
will reveal the best candidates. Best practice is to be clear about the requirements of the role at the outset and to deploy the right mix of assessments.
“By using the right technology in combination with cutting-edge assessments, organisations can not only make their graduate recruitment process better … they can also enhance the candidate experience and the employer brand.” n
TOP EMPLOYERS RECRUIT MORE GRADUATES
New research shows Britain’s top employers are set to recruit more graduates this year, but warns that a record number of jobs will be filled by graduates with work experience. A new report on the graduate job market,
reveals that despite the uncertain economic outlook, there will be more graduate vacancies available for university leavers in 2012 – making it the third consecutive year that the number of graduate jobs has increased.
The Graduate Market in 2012 – a study of graduate vacancies and starting salaries at Britain’s 100 leading employers conducted by High Fliers Research in December 2011 – shows that employers expect to hire 6.4 per cent more graduates this year than in the last 12 months. But the report also warns that graduates from the ‘class of 2012’ that have had no
work experience at all whilst at university stand little or no chance of getting a job offer from the country’s most prestigious graduate employers. A record 36 per cent of this year’s graduate vacancies are expected to be filled by applicants who have already worked for the organisation during their studies.
Half the employers included in the
research have increased their graduate recruitment targets for 2012 and there are additional roles on offer in nine of the 14 industries and employment areas featured in the report. Despite the recruitment freeze at many government departments and agencies, graduate vacancies in the public sector are expected to increase by a fifth this year. There are also more opportunities at engineering and industrial companies, IT and telecommunication firms, high-street banks, investment banks and retailers. n
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