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ProGrad attended the B&T awards on Friday 4th December as a proud sponsor of the event, and presented the award for “Young Achiever of The Year”. The award was presented to Bruce Mundell from Mindshare. Other award winners on the night were: Interactive agency – Deepend DM agency – Mercer Bell Experiential agency – Chieftain [...]
ProGrad continue to run Assessment Days during December to ensure we fulfill the Client demand for new recruits. We’re working on several projects with our clients who are currently looking to fill junior roles using our ProGrad graduates. We have a number of open roles to be filled in December and are likely to have [...]
ProGrad are currently recruiting for a few organisations based in Singapore who are keen to kick start their graduate recruitment drive in early 2010. One organisation in particular, is a technology services organisation who are looking to grow their business development team in the APAC region. This is a great opportunity for high levels of [...]
ProGrad owns and manages a careers portal aimed at the graduate market. In 2007, ProGrad saw the opportunity to bridge the gap for graduate job seekers. ProGrad designed a careers portal which is aimed specifically at the Graduate job market, ensuring that advertisers are only posting roles specifically for that demographic. Over the last few [...]
ProGrad have seen a definite lift in market confidence over the last few weeks as the demand for graduates increases dramatically. Many redundancies were made at a variety of levels months ago, and it was quite a wake-up call to everyone involved. As the market has settled down, conditions are steadily improving and more and [...]
When employers are interviewing you, they are primarily going to be assessing for the chemistry that lies between both parties. Whilst you might be the most experienced, well qualified individual for the role, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re the RIGHT person for the role. Interviewers are assessing for whether you would work well together. [...]
If you’re engaged with a recruitment company (ProGrad or otherwise), then you’re likely to be receiving interviews. For recent graduates, the whole interview process is new and can naturally be quite daunting. If you are struggling with interviews, we would strongly recommend asking for help! It is in your recruiters BEST interests to offer assistance [...]
For many recent graduates, this will be the first time that you engage with recruitment companies and for many – the whole relationship can appear confusing. Here is how it works for graduates that register with ProGrad: We are the “middle-men” between employers and graduates. We proactively contact organisations, meet with them and introduce them [...]
