Best Graduate Recruitment & Development Programme Awards - The Qualifiers

We're trying to identify the two firms which have the best Graduate Recruitment & Development Programme (one for firms taking on less than 50 graduates each year, one for firms taking on 50 plus). And helping us is graduate recruitment and development specialists Graduate Solutions.

This Awards is designed to acknowledge best practice in Graduate Recruitment and Development, and recognises the impact and importance of the strategic and tactical execution of a firm's graduate process.

Stage One of the poll was easy. Firms simply needed to generate sufficient votes from existing graduates, former graduates or line managers involved in the process to qualify for assessment by the team at Graduate Solutions, led by former Deutsche Bank Graduate Head, Viv Dykstra. Viv and her team will then review the online marketing / recruitment capability of each qualifying company, and then come up with a shortlist of 6 firms.

Here's a note of the firms which qualified for the next stage:

Bank of America GCIB Graduate Program

Barclays Capital

Barclays Wealth

Fortis Merchant Banking Associate Programme

JPMorgan

Lehman Brothers Corporate Generalist Graduate Program

Merrill Lynch

Morgan Stanley

Nomura International

Schroders

State Street Global Markets

UBS Investment Bank's 'Explore' Program

Stage Two. The shortlisted companies will now be invited to complete a brief submission which will deal (not exclusively) with issues like headline statistics, commitment and involvement of management, validation of candidate profile and competencies, robustness of selection and assessment processes and the ongoing development and retention of on-boarded graduates. Each submission will be judged by a panel of respected industry experts.

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