Pay and Progression for Graduates 2008

This annual research report is a vital benchmarking resource for any organisation which employs graduates. Pay and Progression for Graduates 2008 provides an accessible guide to the state of the market, with details of planned starting salaries for this year’s recruits. It also looks at how successful employers have been in holding on to their graduates recruited in past years and tracks how much their salaries have progressed since starting work.

Notoriously the graduate recruitment market is one of boom and bust, so it’s essential for those taking on graduates to keep their finger on the pulse from year to year. The report, based on responses from named employers who together took on thousands of graduate recruits last year, covers:

• starting salaries for recruits in 2007 including extra payments for higher qualifications, relevant experience, regional allowances and the use of 'golden hellos'
• plans for starting salaries in 2008
• numbers of recruits, methods of attracting applicants, recruitment policies, problems encountered, recruitment costs, and assessment centres
• sponsorship and work placements, with details of bursaries, sandwich-year and vacation pay
• salary progression and the retention rates of graduates taken on in 2002 and 2004

As you would expect from IDS, the report gives you both the ‘big picture’ and the detail to enable you to benchmark against appropriate comparator organisations in your sector. And it comes packed in a manageable 50 page publication.

Pay and Progression for Graduates – contents