Grovelands Graduate Insights - Spring Summer 2016

Foreword
Contents
Welcome to the latest edition of
our Grovelands Insights series.
This time we have focussed our attention on
the graduate market, specifically examining
the experience of graduate workers, how they
approach job-hunting, and what employers
should be doing to attract top talent.
Every summer and autumn a large number of
graduates enter the job market for the first time.
It is a highly competitive market, both for the
graduates seeking their first roles, and for the
businesses trying to attract them.
We examine the realities of seeking work for the
first time; how prepared are graduates? How do
universities support their students and alumni?
What types of roles and what level of pay
attracts graduate interest? How do these realities
match up against the expectations of students
still at university?
With the high cost of attending university, we try
to understand and explain how this has impacted
current students’ attitudes, expectations and
career aspirations.
This survey reports on current students,
employed graduates, and graduates who have
so far been unsuccessful in securing a role.
This report will help students in forming their
employment expectations, graduates in assessing
their position in the market, and employers in
understanding how they can attract the top
talent for their business.
I hope you enjoy the report.
For more information on our findings please
get in touch at gi@grovelands.co.uk
Executive summary 04
Meet our respondents 06
Expectations vs realities 09
Looking to the future 16
Our conclusion 18
This survey reports on current
students, employed graduates,
and graduates who have so
far been unsuccessful in
securing a role.
Best Wishes,
Ben Wilson
CEO, Grovelands