The best graduate recruitment agencies

barginboyrob

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with recruitment agencies that deal with graduates in particular and whether or not they were helpful or not!

I am looking for some as I have recently graduated with a 2.1 and want to start work this September...(yes I know most applications have closed already!). Don't mind working in London or internationally.

Any ideas would be most welcome!

Blacksheep1979

Without experience you're not going to get anything amazing jobwise on a temporary basis and I doubt that companies will pay a recruitment agency to be introduced to a graduate. Best bet would be to go to one of the graduate fairs that are about or your unis career department who should have details of places still open. What sort of roles are you after?

barginboyrob

Sorry to not specify, I'm just looking for a graduate job, not a temporary one

Looking for financial roles, basically a company that will sponsor me through ACA


edit: and I went to a careers fair two weeks ago and my careers department and Uni last thursday!

dmg24

I found/ find agencies useless.

For grad finance roles you are best to apply direct to the firms. You will not get the choice of locations or specialisms that you could have if you had applied earlier, but the big firms should still be recruiting.

randomtask_2

For grad schemes, I used to check: http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/p!eLaXi but not sure if there are many that will support ACA.

Like dmg24 says, the best thing to do is to identify the firms and apply directly via the contact details listed on their websites.

Blacksheep1979

No big company will pay a recruitment agency to get people on their grad training schemes. Your best bet is to get a list of all the companies in the area that you want to work in and apply to them directly - shows there's more about you than just sending your cv to a company to send out for you, and as I said above no company is going to want to pay 10-20% of the salary to an agency for an untrained grad

paintpot

The following are specialist graduate recruitment agencies:

QGS Recruitment
PFJ
Discovery Recruitment
GRB

The following sites are also useful for Graduates looking for advice

Milkround
DoctorJob.com
Prospects

HTH