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why choose randstad?
Partnering with Randstad for graduate recruitment means accessing a wider pool of talent, including emerging and diverse candidates, through innovative sourcing methods that go beyond traditional job boards.
We streamline the entire process, from sourcing and screening to onboarding and embedding new hires, with a focus on skills and a flexible approach tailored to your specific needs. Our expertise also includes developing bespoke apprenticeship programmes to address your workforce needs, while our dedicated team handles all the administrative details.
Choosing Randstad as your partner for talent provides you with a faster, more efficient, and more effective way to acquire top graduates, helping you build a dynamic and skilled workforce.
how can randstad support with graduate recruitment?
Randstad supports employers with graduate recruitment in a variety of ways, providing a comprehensive approach to attracting, engaging, and onboarding top talent.
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Targeted recruitment strategies
Understanding employer needs: Randstad's dedicated graduate recruitment teams work closely with employers to understand their specific needs, industry requirements, and desired skills for graduate roles.
Developing effective strategies: Tailored recruitment strategies are used to attract the right pool of candidates, utilising a mix of:
- University partnerships: Building strong relationships with universities, participating in career fairs, and conducting presentations to engage students.
- Targeted advertising: Leveraging online job boards and social media platforms to reach graduates with specific skills and interests.
- Employer branding: Creating compelling employer branding campaigns to highlight the company culture, values, and opportunities to attract top talent.
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Streamlined recruitment processes
Efficient candidate sourcing: We leverage extensive networks and use advanced search tools to identify and engage with qualified graduate candidates. This includes:
- Database search: Accessing a large database of graduate candidates with diverse skills and backgrounds.
- Direct sourcing: Actively reaching out to potential candidates through social media, professional networks, and targeted outreach.
- Employee referrals: Encouraging current employees to refer talented graduates from their networks.
Comprehensive screening and assessment: Thorough screening and assessment processes to ensure the best candidates move forward:
- Application review: Evaluating applications against specific criteria to identify qualified candidates.
- Skills assessments: Using standardised tests to assess skills and abilities relevant to the role.
- Behavioural interviews: Conducting structured interviews to evaluate candidates' personality, communication skills, and cultural fit.
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Expert guidance and support
- Interview training: Randstad provides training and coaching to employers on conducting effective interviews with graduates, ensuring consistency and objectivity.
- Offer management: We help employers manage the offer process, including negotiation, background checks, and onboarding.
- Onboarding programmes: Helping new graduate hires integrate smoothly into the organisation and develop their skills.
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Leveraging technology
- Advanced recruitment technology: Utilising cutting-edge technology platforms to manage the entire graduate recruitment process, including candidate sourcing, screening, assessment, and onboarding.
- Data analytics: Leveraging data analytics to track key metrics, identify trends, and optimise recruitment strategies.
frequently asked questions.
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Who do you work with?
We work with clients that have high volume talent attraction requirements across all industries. Recent partnerships include sourcing and assessing business, finance and IT graduates for a major financial organisation, and graduates and apprentices for a leading insurance provider and a number of global manufacturing clients amongst many others.
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What services do you provide?
We provide a bespoke service, allowing you to pick and choose the part of the recruitment process that will have the biggest impact for you. Alternatively, you can hand over the reins and we will design and manage a full end to end talent acquisition programme for you.
From attracting candidates, to assessing them using gamification, telephone and video interviews and organising assessment days, you will be in safe hands as we seamlessly integrate with your branding and recruitment needs..
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What volumes do you work with?
We work with high volume campaigns and our teams have the capacity to carry out thousands of assessments and interviews, with important human face to face time carefully balanced with the use of robotic tech solutions for efficiency. We are able to scale activity up and down depending on your recruitment schedule and seasonal requirements.
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How do you use technology?
We use robotic process automation to enable efficient screening alongside a variety of psychometric assessments, either as internal Randstad technology or working with approved partners. We also offer live and prerecorded video interview platforms that utilise AI to remove hiring bias, to ensure we assess candidates on a level playing field.
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How can we see the results?
As a partnership, we work out a schedule of updates and reports that suit you. Our continuous improvement analysts work closely with our clients throughout the implementation stage to ensure we will deliver the reporting that you require. We can also capture and report on diversity insights, and offer market intelligence to evaluate the local and competing employment markets.
We believe in open and transparent communication to get the best out of your recruitment campaigns and the success of our relationships has been built on working in partnership with our clients, going above and beyond the supplier relationship to work as a partner.
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How do you attract the best young talent?
We have close relationships with educational and early careers organisations. Our alliances include universities, media partners, schools and colleges, enabling us to target the brightest and best young people across industries.
We also manage digital talent attraction marketing campaigns; using our latest insight and research to build microsites that tell your employer brand story, manage search and social media advertising and send persuasive email campaigns.