Recruiter News - December 2025

In this issue: Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year| What do graduates do? |Did you know? | Are you looking to grow your team? | Developing People through WEMCA |Knowledge Transfer Partnership business information sessions | SEND Career Fairs at City of Bristol College – Employer Call Out |Recruit Now |

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

We would like to wish all our customers and friends a very merry Christmas and all the very best for the New Year. Thank you for working with us this year, and we look forward to doing so again in 2026.

As an online job board, the site will run throughout the festive period. However, the team will be away from their desks for a couple of weeks, from 20 December to 5 January.

If you want your advert to go live before the holidays, then please post with us on or before 19 December.

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What do graduates do?

What do graduates do? 2025 is now live. This annual report is a must-read for those in the graduate recruitment space! Thank you to the team at Prospects Luminate for pulling it all together again this year :)

Two key things:

- Media reports suggest that the graduate labour market is in an unusually difficult state, but the real data shows little sign of that truly being the case.

-AI is having major implications for the graduate recruitment market. Employers faced AI-related challenges, from managing higher volumes of applications, to ensuring the authenticity of applications from the ‘AI enabled candidate’.

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Did you know?

Key elements of the Budget for skills included:

-The Chancellor confirmed over £1.5 billion in funding over the Spending Review period for the Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy.

-The Growth and Skills Levy will replace the Apprenticeship Levy, and includes 100% Government funding for apprenticeships for eligible people under 25 at SMEs

-The Youth Guarantee aims to ensure all young people aged 16-24 have access to education, employment or training.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership business information sessions

The University of Plymouth is hosting a series of free business information sessions to show how businesses can benefit from a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project. They will also explore other services that are available from the University for businesses.

Online: 28 November, 30 January, 27 February and 27 March.

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SEND Career Fairs at City of Bristol College –Employer Call Out

Monday 26 January - The Ashley Down Centre (BS7 9BU).

Wednesday 28 January - South Bristol Skills Academy (BS14 0DB).

Employers from across Bristol are invited to exhibit at the upcoming SEND Career Fairs at City of Bristol College.

Your involvement will be incredibly valuable in helping our students to better understand the workplace and the opportunities available to them.

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