Graduate Recruitment statistics from the AGR

During January I attended the AGR’s AGM.  We’ve worked with them in the last couple of years to provide surveys on graduate recruitment professionals salaries and aspirations but the data presented at the AGM will be of more interest to you and your graduate recruitment campaigns.  Twice yearly the AGR with their Research Partner CRE survey over 200 companies on their graduate recruitment campaigns, below are some key stats I picked up with due deference to the AGR and CRE for providing them!

• There was an 8.9% rise in graduate vacancies in 2010 – bucking the predicted half year forecast
• Predicted growth in graduate recruitment of 3.8% in 2011
• Consulting is driving growth predicting 89% growth this year in graduate recruiting
• London still accounts for 42% of all graduate hiring
• The average graduate scheme base salary is £25,000 remaining static for the third year, the big payers being Investment Banking (£38,250) and Law £37,000)
• Only FMCG firms expect to increase graduate salaries above inflation this year
• The average total marketing spend on graduate recruitment for a company is £20,000
• Graduate recruitment is going retro with a return to favour for face to face contact and marketing spend on recruitment fairs
• For every 100 male graduates hired 63 females are hired

February 16, 2011 at 10:50 am | Candidate, Clients, Front Line, Graduate Recruitment, Hiring, In-house, January 2011, Monitor, Napier Wolf News | No comment