Headhunting offers a unique and relevant solution to todays graduate recruitment problems.

The key challenge for graduate recruiters today is in attracting and identifying enough well qualified graduates who have the right portfolio of skills to grow their businesses.

It is becoming increasingly costly and resource intensive for businesses to do this owing to a number of important trends in the graduate marketplace.

• The number of graduates continues to grow as the Government strives to achieve its target of 50% of school leavers attending further education.
• The increase in graduate numbers is not matched by an increase in the quality of graduates, arguably the reverse.
• The 'dumbing down' of educational qualifications at both 'A' and degree level makes the evaluation of candidates increasingly difficult.
• Graduates as a group are becoming increasingly cynical with the better graduates becoming more and more demanding in what they require from prospective employers both during the recruitment stage and after.

Whilst volume recruiters and large organisation have found ways to cut evaluation costs through online processes, many still face great difficulty in communicating their brand message and attracting enough quality applicants - even with large budgets. For lower volume recruiters, with much smaller budgets, communicating their brand is even more difficult and processing applicants resource intensive and disruptive.

Graduate headhunting offers a unique way for organisations - big or small - to identify and attract their required numbers of graduates in a cost effective and trouble free manner.

• Through our extensive university networks we target the graduates that meet your criteria. We ensure that a sufficient number of suitable candidates become interested in pursuing your opportunities. We do not rely on advertising to attract interest.
• We are able to ensure that we approach candidates from a wide variety of universities and courses (as agreed with you in advance) to ensure that our candidates are from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• We develop personal and interactive relationships with candidates. People find this refreshingly different to more impersonal methods and it gives us an opportunity to bring your company and opportunity alive. It also enables us to assess the suitability and fit of the candidate and allows us to dispel doubts and misconceptions as they arise.
• Throughout the recruitment process we maintain close contact with candidates. As a third party we are usually able to have candid and open discussions with our candidates, which improves the likelihood that offers will be accepted by the right individual.

To discuss further how we may be able to tailor our services to support your requirements please contact us for more information on 020 7471 3400 or e-mail us at graduate@moloneysearch.com