As we head into the induction and onboarding season, here are some of ISE’s top-read articles to equip you with the know-how you need to succeed.

Good onboarding lays the foundation for the future success of your graduates and apprentices.

As well as helping candidates to settle in more quickly and understand the culture of their new organisation better, they should have a clear idea of where they should focus their initial efforts.

Chapter 7 of ISE’s Complete Guide to Student Recruitment and Development is a useful resource for employers developing or fine tuning their strategy.

If you’re further down the line, and looking for tips and best practice advice, we’ve pulled together some of our most-read articles to help you at this critical time.

1. 5 ways to onboard early talent for long-term success

Industry experts from Police Now, BDO, Hays and Eli Onboarding share their experience and advice for building a sense of belonging and maximising early potential as well as reducing ghosting.

2. How to empower line managers to better understand and engage Gen Z
To get your programme off to the best start it’s important to have line managers on side. Fairy Job Mother shares tips for enabling them to best understand and engage younger generations.

3. Why it pays to invest in onboarding
Good onboarding is key to successful attraction and recruitment strategies. Gradconsult shares three reasons why it’s important to invest.

4. How Cognizant is driving social mobility from application to onboarding and beyond

Cognizant explains how its graduate candidate experience is achieving equal representation across all socio-economic deciles, and radically improving representation in terms of ethnicity and gender.

5. How-to build an inclusive workplace for Bangladeshi and Pakistani employees

A study by Rare Recruitment provides useful insight to creating inclusive workplaces for employees of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage with advice on inductions.

If you need to give some of your learning and development practices a boost these articles may help…

What’s the future of learning for Generation Z?

How do you talk about the Generation Z workforce? Where have you got these perspectives from – are they grounded in science or societal bias? This ISE webinar with Cappfinity explores these questions and more.

What learning experiences do Gen Z love?

Research by Amberjack helps employers develop learning experiences that Gen Z will love.

How LSEG’s graduate programme is meeting future skills needs

The London Stock Exchange Group won ISE’s Best Graduate Development Programme Award 2024. Here they explain how they redesigned their programme to meet future skills needs.