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  • What makes an Agile graduate scheme? Organisations increasingly talk about being Agile. But what does that mean for when graduates schemes predominantly work in an annual cycle?
  • Do ethics matter? Is there such a thing as an Ethical grad or just one who has not started work yet?
  • Is the Hype around Gen Y real or just a way for people to sell books. New research
  • How to make sure that your graduates are engaged and motivated. Engagement
  • Measure - measure - measure. You need data to make the right changes.

The Graduate Works website is a place where you can find out more about what we do and how we think. We are passionate about our area of expertise, helping companies to design, create and deliver fantastic graduate schemes. For the last 10 years we have evolved our understanding of how to achieve this, and how to link the graduate piece into a broader Early Talent Strategy. The end result is that an HR director can reduce the talent risk in the business over the medium term.

A check list for taking on a Graduate

Submitted by rupert on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 17:48

Following on from the article on how to tell if a graduate is on track,  this is a second checklist of what needs to be in place from the organisation's side.  What are the structures and processes needed for managers to ensure a graduate can succeed.  The items are broken into three sections.  Interstingly, all 16 items are in the must have not nice to have category  

An 8 point check list to test if a grad is on track

Submitted by rupert on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 19:45

I have been  inspired by a blog from Tim Ferriss on why David Lee Roth always insisted on the contract clause of "A big bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones taken out" (link to blog here) to write checklists.

This is a checklist to see if a graduate is on track.

Is the War for Talent a useful concept

Submitted by rupert on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 13:42

Recently I read an article saying that the War for Talent for was an out of date concept Part of the critque was that "war" is not a useful metaphor for which I have some sympathy.  The major argument though, was that it is more important to take a holistic view and that everyone is talent, and to discriminate is a bad idea The three thoughts I had were 

5 challenges to learning at work and how to overcome them

Submitted by rupert on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:42

A follow on from the Top 10 strategies for learning at work this article looks at the challenges that we find people have