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Working with graduates and students

Are you looking to meet and recruit ambitious and highly skilled graduates to supercharge your business? With seven universities in West Yorkshire, we have a wide and diverse talent pool of students and graduates who are excited to start their careers.
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Accessing graduate and student talent

West Yorkshire is where opportunity lives, for businesses, students and graduates.

By working with the seven West Yorkshire universities, your organisation can tap into a diverse pool of talented students, graduates, researchers and academics. Whether you're looking to recruit future talent, drive innovation, or gain fresh perspectives on business challenges, there are a range of opportunities to support your workforce and growth ambitions. 

How your business can benefit 

Graduate recruitment - connect with skilled graduates ready to bring fresh ideas, specialist knowledge and enthusiasm to your organisation. 

Research and innovation partnerships - collaborate on research projects and initiatives, including Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), to solve business challenges and accelerate innovation. 

Work experience and placement opportunities - engage students and graduates through internships, placements and live project briefs, gaining valuable support while helping develop future talent. 

Employer-led events - raise your profile and connect directly with students and graduates through careers fairs, guest lectures, networking events and workshops. 

Get in touch with the West Yorkshire universities

When recruiting for your business, it's important to focus on skills and potential rather than specific degree subjects. Many degree programmes help students and graduates develop valuable transferable skills, such as problem-solving, communication, teamwork and analytical thinking, that can be applied across a wide range of roles and sectors.

Students and graduates are often willing to travel across West Yorkshire for job opportunities and experience giving you a much wider and diverse talent pool.

 

Hear from local employers, as they share why graduate recruitment has benefited them.

It gave us the opportunity to test the idea of increasing our internal resource in a nice, safe environment.

Richard Dearden

Head of Marketing, Potter Space

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Graduates bring new perspectives, fresh new minds that have grown up with this age of technology.

Jonathan Binder

Lead Product Designer, Paxman Scalp Cooling

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The most rewarding thing for me is watching these individuals grow. What we can give to them in their education and learning, it comes back in bucket fulls.

Richard White

Founder, Powerhouse Studios

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Richard White from Powerhouse Studios

The whole process was extremely smooth and it helped us to save on costs, both time-wise and financially.

Izabela Michalczyk

HR Manager, Deluxe Beds

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Every candidate was excellent and if we'd been in a position to recruit more, we probably would have done.

Gary Rycroft

Managing Director, Control Station Limited

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