Firms focus on graduate recruitment

Companies are realising the full potential of graduate sales recruitment, the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) has suggested.

The skills developed by graduates during their degree, such as "problem solving and communication skills" are not going unnoticed in the sales jobs recruitment sector.

Elspeth Farrar, communications director at AGCAS, claims that approaching graduates for positions such as sales jobs will find candidates that have gained "far more than just the subject knowledge from their degree"

She added: "Working in project and team environments, the kinds of skills that students are getting in higher education prepares them well for working in that kind of situation."

Meanwhile, research by the Association of Graduate Recruiters predicts an increase of 16.4 per cent in the number of graduate vacancies, such as through sales recruitment, that will be available this year.

And according to an Executive Connections report for the Recruitment Times, the number of companies seeking to hire graduates has also increased from eight per cent in 2006 to 33 per cent in 2007.


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Filed: 19-05-2008