Early careers, apprenticeships and graduate recruitment
We can shape the future of your business by connecting you with the brightest talent and helping you refresh or develop early careers, graduate and new talent programmes. Our inclusive, bespoke solutions are tailored to nurture your organisational growth.
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Our early careers recruitment services...
We’ve been running our own new and early talent programme in house and creating effective versions for clients for over 25 years.
If you are looking to recruit the very best new or early talent, we can help you develop a clearly defined strategy to attract the right people.
Whether you are searching for graduates, apprentices, school leavers, interns, or those starting out on a fresh, new career path, Reed Talent Solutions has a vast array of experience across the whole talent landscape.
From employer branding and attraction to selection and onboarding, our solutions are designed to seek out the breadth of talent you need to take your organisation to the next level.
Recruiting is only the first step. Our programmes can help support skills development, while our talent advisory services will allow you to not only attract, but retain, the very best people.
We manage the entire spectrum of new and early talent programmes. Our inclusive approach means we don’t only offer advice on the attraction and selection, but on equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDI&B) and on how to create an employee value proposition (EVP) that truly resonates with the talent you want.
Graduate recruitment
Reed Talent Solutions’ graduate solutions provide organisations with access to the very best talent, aligning candidates’ skills and potential with the right opportunities.
We can source and screen candidates, as one of the UK’s top graduate recruitment companies, providing advice and support to organisations including where to place advertisements and how to increase the diversity of the candidate pool during the recruitment process.
From screening and assessments to interviewing and onboarding, we provide a complete solution to allow organisations to reach the next level by attracting top talent. Our ability to successfully combine the latest recruitment artificial intelligence with human interaction means the hiring process is seamless as it can be.
Apprenticeship programmes
Our range of apprenticeship services allow us to support organisations to overcome skills gaps and use their levy funds in the most efficient way by training existing teams or developing a new generation of talent.
At Reed Talent Solutions, we already deliver apprenticeship programmes in accounting and human resources. In response to growing IT skills shortages and client demand, our services now include immersive apprenticeship solutions in tech and digital, which include:
Cyber Security Technologist Level 4
Software Developer Level 4
Data Analyst Level 4
Data Technician Level 3
We understand apprenticeships can be complicated and time-consuming, but our solutions mean we can:
Design and implement a tailored apprenticeship programme to free up your time and resource.
Support the recruitment and selection process, if required.
Help your organisation explore how to fully utilise apprenticeship levy funding.
Guide you through transferring or receiving surplus levy funds.
Why partner with Reed Talent Solutions?
Reed Talent Solutions’ vast experience means we can take control of every aspect of your new and early careers programme, from attraction, to retention and training.
Our experts will work closely with your team to source and develop the very best early and new talent pipeline, taking care of all your EDI&B and EVP needs along the way.
We have 65 years’ experience in recruitment and training, giving us the ability to equip your teams with first-class training and best-practice recruitment methodology.
We can engage multiple channels to ensure you gain access to the best people available for your early talent programme, helping your business grow and thrive.
Case studies and success stories
Large UK bank
Reskilling back office and contact centre workforce into software development
Government Actuarial Department
Recruiting graduate trainees for a government department
Insights and resources
FAQs
Early careers recruitment applies to candidates at the very start of their career journey, including graduates and school leavers. It involves supporting entry-level career starters via an onboarding process that sets them up for long-term success. These programmes also work to help those people making a change in their career path take their first steps in a new direction, providing the necessary training and guidance to make their new path a successful one.
Many candidates are looking to change their career path, bringing life experience and transferrable skills to roles they haven’t had previous experience in. These candidates can often help organisations fill skills gaps within their workforce, with upskilling and reskilling available to allow them to be redeployed in the optimum way. This works by using proactive, skills-based hiring solutions, designed to attract emerging and hidden talent, provide them with foundational technical and business skills, and then deploy them into businesses on programmes.
To recruit the best graduates, organisations should be prepared to connect at an individual level, keep job application processes simple, produce honest and clear job adverts, and invest in learning from previous hiring experiences – we can help you with this.
Early careers, new careers and graduate recruitment can be used to:
Fill valued roles in your organisation with people who have the ability to grow and develop within your business
Enable organisations to take on candidates with transferable skills, and make sure they have access to the reskilling and upskilling they need to take on a new challenge
Help develop and train new starters to become future leaders
The top skills employers want, include problem solving, communication skills, commercial awareness, teamwork, organisation and planning, flexibility and enthusiasm. For those changing career, transferrable skills and a desire to learn are highly valued.