Why Employ Graduate Level Skills?

What Graduates bring to You

Through their studies graduates have to build up a series of skills which are useful to employers. Graduates invest a great deal of time and money in furthering their education and maturing their minds in readiness to enter the job market (or return to it).

The skills developed through degrees broadly include:

Communication and articulation skills
Self-motivation
Subject specific knowledge and expertise
Enthusiasm
Intellectual ability
Confidence
Practical skills
Ability to plan an argument/report writing ability
Creativity
Presentation experience
Planning and organisation skills
Team work
Analysis and decision making ability
Potential

Return on Investment

With careful management graduates can be intelligent, articulate, enthusiastic and able additional members of your team. With the right opportunities, development and stimulation, graduates usually return the financial investment made in them several times over.

Below are some statistics from the Unlocking Potential project which has been working in Cornwall since 2004 to create c.800 new graduate level jobs and measure the impact of those graduate placements with their employers:

78% of graduates remained with their employer after the first 12 month time-bound project
60% of companies saw an increase in their turnover and on average that increase was £111,315
60% of companies saw an increase in profit
51% employed between 1-7 additional staff as a result of the project
76% saw an increase in productivity
72% will employ another graduate soon
The average starting salary for graduates in UP projects is around £19,000