Skip to main content

Featured Knowledge

Mindfulness: How HSBC is betting on the brain

A Global Mindfulness Programme is helping talent reach their full potential, explains Sean Tolram, Head of Mindfulness at HSBC.

Aug 07, 2025
Know-how
Aug 06, 2025

7 ways to measure intern performance

ISE employer members share their advice on how to best measure the performance of interns.

Webinar

PeopleScout: Early careers assessment for tomorrow Members Only

Is it time to throw away the old early careers recruitment rulebook? Join PeopleScout’s Head of Assessment Design, Amanda Callen, and Talent Solutions Director, James Chorley, for an eye-opening session that reveals how TMP Worldwide partnered with PeopleScout Psychologists to rewrite the rules and create a future-ready approach for early careers assessment.

5 ways to help students discover lesser-known careers

ISE members got together to discuss how to open students’ eyes to sectors they may not be aware of.

What makes an ISE award winner?

Employers share insights and advice to their award-winning early careers programmes.

How do UK graduates stack up globally?

New analysis shows how the skills of UK graduates compare to their counterparts in Europe and the Americas – and what it means for early careers development - explains Matt Kirk at SHL.

6 ways to beat surge in job applications

With AI making it easier to apply for jobs en masse, small early careers teams in particular are feeling the strain. ISE members offer advice.

ISE Insights

We work to provide expert information and insight to our member organisations and deliver comprehensive research on range of issues affecting graduate, intern and apprenticeship recruitment and development.

Explore Insights

ISE Research

ISE research helps employers, universities, suppliers, and wider stakeholders in the student recruitment and development industry make well-informed decisions about student talent. 

Explore Research

Report

ISE Student Development Survey 2025 Members Only

Despite an uncertain economic and political environment, ISE members continue to hire more student onto their development programmes. Find an in-depth analysis of data from employer members across a range of sectors and discover trends in development programmes for graduates and school and college leavers.

Dashboard

Data Dashboards: Student Development 2025 Members Only

We've gathered the data from our Student Development survey into these digestible, interactive dashboards.

Report

Student Recruitment Survey 2024 Access Now

The student labour market is directly affected by global and national economic forces, the political environment, and the changing needs of employers and students. The ISE Recruitment Survey identifies a number of significant trends driven by these pressures.

Ten years ago, not many ISE members were hiring school leavers, now they are.

Ten years from now, we expect many ISE member recruitment teams will not only still target school leavers and graduates, but also career changers, older workers and internal candidates.

Explore Early Talent

Here you will find the content the ISE Apprenticeships Working Group has been working hard on delivering. 

In order to inform employers of the value of apprenticeships for their organisation.

Explore Apprenticeships

Find research, case studies, advice and information curated by ISE’s EDI Working Group to support members in their EDI journey.

From starting out and building a business case to developing a strategy and measuring performance.

Explore EDI

Sign up Today