key areas in which automation of the recruitment function could serve a useful purpose for large employers. Originality …

Purpose – To focus on graduate recruitment at UK food manufacturer Northern Foods. Design … that Northern Foods takes only graduates who have work experience. When graduates join the company they are matched up with … a trained mentor who can provide professional support and advice to help to build up strategic awareness. Graduates gain …

” graduate‐recruitment organization, to win the 2005 Sunday Times Best Small Company to Work For award. Design … highlights a business model that has succeeded in getting the best out of today's graduates. Originality/value – The paper shows …

brightest and best graduates. Design/methodology/approach – Details how the scheme operates and presents the comments of two of … the people who are taking part. Findings – Finds that Go, Give and Grow provides new graduates selected for employment P … return flights, insurance and medical expenses, and pays a local‐rate salary. In return, the graduates have an unrivalled …

graduates. Design/methodology/approach – Details the qualities the company looks for in its graduate recruits, the development … responsibility projects in helping the graduates to develop. Describes in detail the experiences of one graduate recruit in the … fresh talent graduates bring to a business. Originality/value – Demonstrates that the graduate‐development program benefits …

takes and the results it has achieved. Findings – Describes how the graduates the consultancy recruits tend to be from …, other disciplines in the company. Practical implications – Reveals that Buro Happold's graduates tend to stay with the … company: three‐quarters of the graduates it recruited in 2005 were still with the consultancy two years later. Social …

-term recruitment strategy to attract talented people from every walk of life. Originality/value – Points out how KPM’s programs are …

A learning and development program proved a cost‐effective way to attract, develop and retain graduates within AIB …