Hi everyone- help please for one of my clients has asked me to help her in finding a company with a great graduate programme who would be willing to discuss what they have done to make their graduate programmes dynamic, up to date and "funky"!
They are a big IT reseller company that is very young and fun place to work - they take on approx. 50-70 graduates into Sales roles per year and are beginning to take on many apprentices too.
Client has asked me to see if I can help in finding companies that have
"funky" graduate, induction and apprentice programmes.
We’d like to reach out to companies that have some outstanding training to get some ideas.
We are particularly looking at how technology is used in training however are keen to get an overview of how other people are going about on boarding new starts."
I help them with sales training and coaching for senior guys and they are looking to make links with other companies and benchmark.
I just want to help these guys...
Many thanks
Clare
Replies
Hi Mike -sorry manic and trying to keep brief!
Here's an overview:
Case study based on client environment, all learning themed to topic of case study, topics, include:
- research ideas on a new IT product idea
- commercial awareness including SWOT & PESTLE
- analysis of customers, client charter, etc
- self-awareness tools, including Strenght deployment inventory - relationship awareness and awareness of others
- insights into the NLP of communication and how we have preferences and blind spots
- practising communication - , presentations, verbal, written and conference calls
- team development, team roles using Belbin profiles
- dealing with difficult situations and handling conflict
- influencing strategies in the real world
- assertiveness skills
Hugely interactive, learning sticks because it is real and memorable. Can't go into too much more detail due to IPR.
Zoe
Hi Clare,
I'm delivering a 2 week 'funky' graduate induction at the moment - it goes down a storm, brings about excellent learning in terms of knowledge, skills and behaviour and it is for a worldwide technology company. Happy to chat but will have to be after I've worked these 2 weeks as it's intensive!
Contact details: zoe@harvardlewis.co.uk
Zoe
Come on Zoe - share some of the 'good stuff' - even if it's just a brief over view ;)
Wow! Sally - thank you so much for responding - very useful!! and I have forwarded to my contact just now
I love this site!!!
Many thanks
Hi Clare,
I've run large-scale graduate recruitment programmes for a government dept and a national law firm. A good place for inspiration is to look at graduate recruiters who have won awards for innovation - e.g. the AGR awards (http://www.agr.org.uk/Graduate-Recruitment-Awards) or the TargetJobs awards (http://targetjobsawards.co.uk/). Often the same big employers are nominated/awarded but that's because they have the big bucks to throw at making their graduate programmes fabulous and are a great source of ideas for using on a smaller scale.
It's now approx. 5 years since I worked in this area but one area that I focused on was corporate responsibility and we got our graduates working together, from induction and beyond, to create and run some kind of CR activity. We had a tea dance for elderly folk in Basingstoke, Christmas activities at a primary school in Birmingham, etc. They were given an open brief and a small budget and they arranged everything themselves. The induction as a whole lasted a week and was a mix of work & play and all the graduates came together in one place for that week, even though they were posted to different offices around the country.
Not sure if any of that sounds funky but hope it helps! :)