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Finding the Best Graduates: Strategies to Understand Your Talent Pool

As the year draws to a close, many organisations are gearing up for their 2024 early talent recruitment plans. plans. While it's essential to look forward, it's equally crucial to reflect on the past year's strategies and outcomes. To make informed decisions about your talent acquisition and campus recruiting efforts, it's essential to evaluate the success of your previous campaigns.

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Student Pulse 2023

In August, Talent Solutions hit the road to share the results of Student Pulse 2023 with our client community.

We were thrilled to be able to share the latest insights and data with our graduate community, and were warmly welcomed by CAANZ in Christchurch, KPMG in Auckland, and Xero in Wellington.

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Could a Robot do your Job?

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make waves across industries, concerns among graduates about its impact on job opportunities are on the rise. While these concerns are understandable, it’s important to approach the issue with a balanced perspective. Contrary to the alarmist narrative, current estimates suggest that the number of jobs directly affected by AI remains relatively low.

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Candidate Ghosting: How it Hurts Employers and Candidates.

Candidate Ghosting - how it hurts employers and candidates.

There’s been a lot of discussion recently in the graduate industry around "candidate ghosting." It's when job applicants suddenly stop communicating with employers during the hiring process, (much like ghosting in personal relationships).

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Unlocking the Full Potential of an NZAGE Membership

Talent Solutions is a proud partner of The New Zealand Association of Graduate Employers (NZAGE). The NZAGE’s mission is to educate and support New Zealand organisations in delivering exceptional graduate talent programmes.

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Key Themes in Graduate Recruitment and Development

Talent Solutions recently held graduate community roundtables in Wellington and Auckland to give early talent professionals the opportunity to connect, share ideas, and discuss common challenges in the industry.

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The Implications of ChatGPT for the Graduate Industry.

In March, graduate recruitment industry experts from Australia and New Zealand held a webinar about ChatGPT - the AI software that has taken the world by storm - and what effects it will have on the early talent industry.

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Graduate Industry Roundtable

We were delighted to have such a great turnout for our first Graduate Community event of 2023 - our Graduate Industry Roundtables.

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Neurodiversity

We were delighted to host the first Talent Solutions Talent Talk on the topic of Neurodiversity. This is a topic that is of real interest to our clients and network, based on the positive feedback we received pre and post the event.

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Kate Bourke Kate Bourke

Not all Virtual Internships are created equal

How to ensure mutual value for your organisation and your interns With some organisations hitting pause on their summer internship programmes due to the pandemic, virtual internships offer an attractive way for organisations to create a pipeline of future talent without the need to bring students into the office.

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