Many small businesses welcome the dynamism, enthusiasm and talent that graduates bring to their business. What the businesses may not have is a clear understanding of what their precise needs are, and in a way that can be accessed by those interested in the posts.
Businesses will get a helping hand to ensure they reap the benefits of employing the best people at graduate level, with a new online professional recruitment guide launched this week.
Michael Hargreaves is the new City and Guilds Training Support Officer for GO Wales. Mike explains what his new role will involve and how this will help benefit students, graduates and businesses who participate in a GO Wales work placement:
Rhodri Morgan, First Minister of Wales recently visited the offices of Pugh Computers at Llanon, Aberystwyth to see at first hand the latest developments at Pugh Computers.
Emma Palfrey developed 28 chainrings for the Olympic Australian 2008 cycling team as part of her recent work placement with Highpath Engineering based in Cribyn, Mid Wales
We know we're only part the way through 2008 but we couldn't resist sharing some of the amazing projects that we have assisted businesses with this year.
The Guardian has just launched Grad Facts 2008 which is an insight in graduates and their attitudes and aspirations. The survey was completed by over 3,000 final year students in February/March this year.
Some recruitment agencies have opted to use video CVs as a way of quickly short listing candidates and filtering out poorly performing candidates before interview. Is this something that employers should be considering? What would happen to the more conventional CV?
We thought we'd let you have a bit of an insight into GO Wales staff so we asked Lewis Richards work placement coordinator at Aberystwyth to answer of quick fire questions...
