According to the 2024 ISE Student Development survey, half of employers said that their graduates are not career ready at the point of hire, with similarly high numbers for school and college leavers. The data suggests that early careers are starting out without all the skills that they need to navigate today’s hybrid workplace successfully.

As a supporting sponsor of the Institute of Student Employer’s Student Development Conference we’re exhibiting and presenting with one of our clients on 23 April at Prospero House in London. We hope to see you there …. #ISEdev24

I had the pleasure of working with Cadent’s Early Talent population last week to help equip them with the skills, knowledge and behaviours to hit the ground running in their first week at work.

In recent years the pathway to success has been influenced by Covid times and most early talent has had no choice but to adapt to a virtual (or hybrid) working world. Not a ‘technical’ problem for these digital natives, but it has definitely created a knock on social, relationship and knowledge acquisition problem…