Recruiter News - October 2022

In this issue: Autumn Careers Fairs are here | Upskill you Team | Low Carbon Devon | Innovate the Amazon Way | HR Support: Recruitment and Onboarding | Recruit with Gradsouthwest

Autumn Careers Fairs are here

We are so looking forward to the return of in-person fairs after two years of virtual ones.

We will be at the following Careers Fairs over the coming weeks:

- 18 Oct: Exeter

- 19 Oct: UWE(virtual), Bournemouth and Exeter(Penryn)

- 20 & 21 Oct: Bath

- 8 & 9 Nov: Plymouth

More dates may yet be added! If you want us to promote your jobs at the Fairs make sure your advert is live on the website and drop us an email for additional promo.

Upskill your Team

📣 Funded Training Available!

The IT and Cyber Readiness boot camps are an excellent opportunity to up-skill individuals in your workforce ensuring cyber-resilience for your business.

These courses worth £3,000 are funded up to 90% for businesses by the Government UpSkills programme.

✅Find out more / register

Low Carbon Devon Carbon Footprint Workshops - start 20 October

How can you take meaningful action on climate change as a local enterprise based here in Devon? Join the Low Carbon Devon team for a series of workshops which will walk you through the process of calculating your carbon emissions.

➡️Find out more

Innovate the Amazon way: Bring customer-centric ideas to market faster- 25 October

Understand your customers' needs, refine your innovation culture and achieve scale with support from Amazon Web Services.

During the 2-hour online session, businesses will experience these first-hand insights into Amazon’s innovation process, with other topics including:

- Amazon’s innovation culture including mechanisms, architecture and organisation
- Framing a business challenge – how businesses can work with AWS’s Digital Innovation team to identify a specific customer problem or opportunity that they wish to address
- Navigating resources and services provided by AWS partners to help businesses drive digital transformation

You’ll learn the principles that have driven one of the world’s most successful business models and access guidance on how those principles can be applied to your own organisation.

➡️Find out more

HR Support: Recruitment and Onboarding- 17 Jan 2023

Join us to learn more about how to attract the best candidates and how to avoid common recruitment pitfalls.

An informative and interactive online workshop where you will understand the cost of poor selection and know how to avoid common pitfalls, discover the most effective selection methods to attract the best candidates, be confident interviewing using values and competencies and have an awareness of diversity and unconscious bias when recruiting for your team.

Open to SMEs, it is free to attend as part of the Workforce for the Future Programme.

➡️Find out more

Recruit with Gradsouthwest

Whether your recruiting numerous grads for your next Graduate Scheme, just one for a role starting immediately or anything in between, then we have packages to meet your needs.

And if you don't like the standard packages, drop us an email and we'll build a bespoke one for you.

Book a Graduate Scheme Campaign with us now for summer 2023 starts - £940 ex VAT

Our cost effective 4 month Graduate Scheme Package includes:

- Featured Job Posting - standard + homepage listing, additional social media and high priority in searches
- 2 x Targeted e-Shots - bespoke email to up to 2,500 candidates
- 2 x Jobs of the Week - logo on the homepage & jobs bulletin profile
- Featured Recruiter - logo on homepage
- Display adverts - MPU or banner adverts throughout website

Or here's our standard listing for ultimate value for money...