graduate scheme design
Graduate Schemes & Early Careers Design Firm in the UK
Design and delivery support for graduate schemes and early-careers programmes that build a genuine talent pipeline.
Part of Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
The employer challenge
Where graduate schemes & early careers design helps
Early-careers hiring requires a different approach to experienced hiring: assessment, onboarding and development all need to be designed with less work history to go on.
Business outcomes
A structured, fair early-careers assessment process
A more structured onboarding experience, designed to support early retention
A repeatable programme rather than a one-off hiring push
What the service includes
- Programme design, including assessment approach
- Sourcing and screening of early-careers candidates
- Onboarding and early development planning support
Not included in this service
- A guarantee of graduate hiring volumes, access to particular universities, or specific diversity outcomes
- Filling a single, individual permanent vacancy (see Permanent Recruitment)
Who we support
Employers building or improving graduate schemes and other early-careers hiring programmes.
Our delivery approach
Clear steps, from first conversation to delivery
- 01
Define programme goals and role profiles
- 02
Design a fair, structured assessment process
- 03
Support sourcing, screening and selection
- 04
Support onboarding and early development planning
Engagement options
Choose the way you want to work together
Full programme design and delivery
Discuss this optionProgramme design only, delivered in-house
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Related expertise
This service is about designing and running a structured, repeatable early-careers programme (assessment, onboarding and development built for candidates with less work history) rather than filling one individual permanent vacancy.
Relevant sectors
UK-wide coverage
Graduate Schemes & Early Careers Design is available to employers across the UK, delivered remotely and, where useful, on-site.
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What clients usually ask
Programmes are scaled to the employer: this can support a small, structured early-careers intake as well as larger schemes.
Programme design is built around your organisation's needs and sourcing channels rather than a claimed set of university partnerships or guaranteed candidate volumes.
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Programmes are designed with both recruitment and long-term development in mind, not just a single hiring push.