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Business

Recruiting Graduates

Looking to recruit graduates who will improve your business?

If you want your business to grow and succeed, Stirling graduates can offer you enthusiasm, intelligence and experience. We offer relationship management to save you money and time and find you the right candidate from both graduates and undergraduate and postgraduate students. Find out how Stirling graduates compare to other graduates. Whether you're a SME, multi-national or public sector employer, we will support your recruitment at every stage.

 

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Having students on placement with Youth Services has been a really positive experience. It gives us a fresh perspective on our work, provides staff with an opportunity to develop support and supervision skills and ensures that we continue to reflect on our practice, linking theory with practice and continuing to improve the quality of the service we provide.

Shona Keenan, Stirling Youth Services

What We Can Do For Your Business

We offer a range of services to assist you at all stages of recruitment - you may be interested in:

  • Direct recruitment: come onto campus and make a presentation to our students, then interview applicants on campus
  • Retaining talented students and finding out how candidates perform before offering full employment: offer sponsorship and work experience
  • Advertising your vacancies (full-time, career positions, part-time / vacation work, internships): in print and on our website
  • Raising your profile among academic staff and students: meet students at careers events, get involved in careers education
  • Getting relevant information about the labour market for students and graduates: access statistics and find resources to help plan your recruitment strategies, including where to find candidates and current industry salary rates

For a full range of our services please visit our employer website, call us on 01786 467070 or email us at employerlinks@stir.ac.uk

James BoyleAt PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) we have recruited a number of students from Stirling University. These students come from a wide variety of degree backgrounds and demonstrate key skills and competencies that PwC look for. As a major employer of graduate trainees, PwC recognises the important role played by the University in producing high-calibre, motivated individuals.

James Boyle, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

 
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address

Career Development Centre

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK
telephone Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 467070
fax Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 467076
email Email: employerlinks@stir.ac.uk
web Web : www.careers.stir.ac.uk/employers

 

How Do Stirling Graduates Compare to Other Graduates?

Graduate Employability

  • 94.6 percent of our students are employed within six months after graduation (Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2009).
  • The University has a strong reputation for the quality of its degree programmes. In the most recent RAE assessment (2008) 10 percent of the University of Stirling's research has been judged to be world leading, and a further three quarters as internationally excellent.