Blog for Employers

  • Hiring Graduates From Ranked South African Universities Is Good Talent Being Overlooked?
    Hiring graduates from South Africa's ranked universities can be a strategic decision for companies looking to tap into a pool of talented and diverse individuals. South African universities have emerged as global players in higher education, offering a diverse pool of talented graduates ready to contribute to the workforce....
  • Interviewing a graduate is not the same as interviewing an experienced candidate with years of work behind them. To conduct a successful graduate interview, you need to be assessing more than skills, you are looking for character, soft skills, curiosity and work ethic amongst other things. This blog aims to help employers prepare for graduate interviews by giving you our best tips. ...
  • 7 Tips on how to hire top marketing graduates
    Hiring graduates needn’t be intimidating, time consuming or costly. As a company RecruitAGraduate places thousands of grads into work and these are our 7 tips on how to hire top marketing graduates. Newly graduated marketing talent have their fingers on the pulse on the latest trends and tools. They come with fresh perspectives, a lot of passion and the latest skills, all aspects that...
  • Onboarding Remote Graduates: Beyond Logistics to Cultivating a Welcoming Work Culture
    Onboarding remote graduates is more than logistics, such as ensuring your new employee has a computer and an email address. Graduates need to feel welcome, they need to understand their roles and responsibilities, company values, and the culture of the workplace. The upside of hiring graduates is that they are digital natives because they have grown up with technology and have used it on a...
  • Essential Graduate Skills for a Dynamic Business World
    To remain relevant to your market, your hiring strategy must adapt to include graduate skills. Companies play a role as market-finders and culture creators, but today’s markets are morphing and changing faster than many businesses could have ever predicted. The imperative is for new, agile approaches to reach differentiated consumers with virtually the entire world at their fingertips....