Recruiting graduates can prove expensive, especially if you don't work hard to keep them. In the second of a three part series on graduate development, consultant Mike Morrison explains how a management development programme can produce real business benefits.
Recruiting graduates can be an expensive process. This cost is doubled if you have the wrong person in the wrong role, or that as an organisation you fail to live up to your expectations and they leave prematurely. One thing for sure is that your graduates will be talking to colleagues from their former university. They will be sharing job experiences and the type of training they are getting, salary (yes young people today do tell each other what they are earning) and how they are being treated.
It's not what you do it's the way that you do it
Many recruiters of graduates have some sort of training plan for them, some more formal than others.