Market Research
We can help you to know your graduate marketplace and even if we do say so ourselves, our knowledge is unrivalled in the industry. Our graduate team have many years' graduate recruitment experience behind them, and this means they understand all sorts of clever stuff, like the wider issues that affect the key decisions you make. And of course, our membership of, and close links with, organisations like AGR, CRAC, SIS and CIPD mean that the team continues to keep abreast of the latest thinking, which all helps.
Advertising Campaigns
Competing for the top 10% of the UK's undergraduate talent is not an easy task, oh no… Neither is differentiating yourself from your competitors. We pride ourselves on combining real creative talent and commercial appreciation to develop award-winning campaigns. Our successes in the AGR, CIPD and RAD awards show we can certainly pull a punch in the creative arena. If you want an advert that looks good, smells good and gets the great unwashed putting down their kebabs and their cheap beer and beating a path to your office door then come and challenge us to a fight.
Media Buying And Planning
Whether it's local press, national press or one of the more graduate-specific publications like Prospects, Hobsons or GTI, our experience enables us to offer independent, and quite frankly, fantastic advice on the most appropriate media for you and your needs. What's more, the relationships we've developed with these media allow us to negotiate the best positions and the most favourable rates. (Yeah, these relationships have also meant lots of dinner out and arguments over who does the washing up.) Over the years, we've found these contacts can also be an invaluable source of data and information on market trends (even if they are rubbish at doing the washing up).
On-Campus Marketing
More and more graduate recruiters are looking to make the most of opportunities open to them in this area. We take a strategic view and advise our clients on the most appropriate universities and courses to target, and the most effective ways to reach their audience. (Long poke-y sticks are one of our favourites.) We can also manage the infinitely more highbrow strategic and tactical aspects of any on-campus activity, including the end-to-end management of careers fairs and presentations which is far more fun than it sounds.
Marketing Materials
Yes, we've produced lots of these for all of our lovely, lovely clients. In each case, we've project managed the entire process – from initial concepts through design, photography and copywriting to production and distribution. But that's not all, because many of these brochures were supported by a variety of recruitment collateral. As well as the posters, postcards and exhibition stands this has included, we have sourced giveaways including pens, mugs, torches, hand warmers, chocolate brownies, sim card savers and emergency phone chargers. It almost goes without saying that students love free stuff, but we'll say it anyway. Besides which, we love giving it to them… the lazy, ungrateful creatures that they are.
Online Solutions
Put simply, if it's online we do it. Big or small, we tackle all our work with the same enthusiasm. You can see the whole range of stuff in the whizzy online section, but knock yourself out on the fact that we can do all that online stuff from a uniquely graduate perspective. Conveniently, last year, we delivered graduate recruitment sites for the likes of: Audit Commission (RAD short listed – best website); Barclays, Taylor Wessing, Oracle and E.on.