ISE INSIGHTS


Samuel Gordon Research Analyst, ISE


Hiring volumes by type of hire


Apprentices 11,016


Graduates 20,614


Interns 6833


Tracking social mobility


Track but don’t know how applicants and hires compare Share of hires lower than share of applicants


Share of hires greater than share of applicants Equal share of applicants and hires


First-generation graduate 70%


State schooled 68%


Received free school meals 64%


7% 16% 14%


Placements 2575


School leavers 570


11%


14%


3% 28%


Parental occupation is routine work, semi-routine work or long-term unemployed 83%


5%


17%


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s part of our work to support you, ISE goes to great lengths to ensure that you can make well-informed decisions about hiring and training student talent. As ISE’s Research Analyst, it’s my pleasure to share some new statistics from our latest Annual Survey to help.


These statistics are hot off the press. We launched the Annual Survey in September, and because of your input, it’s the most complete picture in the UK of the ways that employers are recruiting students. The 200 responding organisations provided year-on-year hiring trends for graduates, apprentices, interns, placements and school


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leaver hires. We’d encourage you to dive into the report and to act on the findings.


Here are two key changes in our industry that are worth paying attention to.


Growth in apprentices


2017 marks a year of growth in salaries and vacancies. Overall, employers are offering more opportunities for all types of student hires and the median starting salary for graduates has risen by 2% to £28,000. 98% of employers recruited graduates this year. More employers are recruiting apprentices too. Volumes are up by 19%, with over 1,700 more apprentices and a growth rate of 50%


for degree-level apprenticeships. 65% of employers recruit apprentices, up from 55% last year. Apprentices are also 54% of the volume of graduate hires compared to 44% last year.


Three-quarters of employers have previously said that apprentice hiring had no impact on their graduate hiring. It will be interesting to see if this stays true in the future.


Improving diversity


Recruiters see improving diversity as a bigger challenge than responding to Brexit. Diversity is now the top-ranked challenge amongst student recruiters, up from


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