AGR outlook for graduate recruitment

According to the Association of Graduate Recruiters' (AGR) Outlook for graduate recruitment , there's nothing to worry about in graduate recruitment...

"The Summer Review states that graduate recruitment has undergone a year-on-year increase of 11.7%. Although this is slightly down on 2007’s figure of 12.7%, and less than the AGR’s prediction in the 2008 Winter Review, which predicted growth of 16.4%, most importantly graduate vacancies are still increasing.

The top recruiting sectors among the AGR respondents continue to be Accountancy or Professional Services firms and Banking and Financial Services firms. Indeed, these two sectors alone are offering more than a third of total graduate vacancies.

"Given the current economic climate, HECSU is happy to report that the AGR Summer Review does not predict any heavy reduction in graduate recruitment in 2009 with only 13.6% of the survey respondents’ predicting either slightly fewer, far fewer or no new graduates will be recruited in 2009. By far the largest group of respondents, 51.5% of the total, expect there to be similar numbers of graduate recruitment in 2009 as there was in 2008, however a substantial number of the respondents, 32.1% in total, are expecting increases in graduate recruitment during 2009.

More good news is provided in the expected salary predictions for 2009 as over a quarter of respondents anticipate a rise of between 4.1% to 10% for their 2009 graduate recruits, illustrating a marked increase from only 13.3% in the 2008 Winter Review."

This comes from a recently conducted survey for the current recruitment period. While useful and informative, there are more opinions, nuances and first-hand accounts in our recent feature.

industry focus: Accountancy, Banking, Consulting, Finance, Other

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