Ensuring you attract the best talent to meet the fast-moving business challenges ahead often requires taking another look at what "good" looks like for your organisation. With a tight labour market what strategy do you adopt to make sure you are reaching new pockets of talent ahead of the competition? Some candidates can be overlooked so for this GRN Masterclass session we invited an expert to discuss social mobility and open up discussion on how graduate recruiters could unlock new potential.

Graduate Recruiters Network (GRN) Masterclass Series

7: Social Mobility Masterclass: Unlocking New Potential

All business functions need to deliver on measurables and HR is no exception. HR metrics can include engagement, retention, attraction, gender pay gap, overdue reviews or D&I. So, how can HR professionals go one step further and deliver impact? This was the topic for our most recent GRN Masterclass. Kindly hosted by ICAEW, London on 10th December, members were treated to insights from both Higher Education and Inhouse recruiters by Lynne Hamilton-Gow from ICAEW and Ami Bartrip from Metaswitch. Jenny from GRB did a fantastic job opening and chairing the event and also welcoming for the very first time our livestream viewers who are based outside of London. In attendance to hear these insights were senior HR managers from forward-thinking recruiters such as Amazon, BDO, Knight Frank, Liberty, John Lewis Partnership and Siemens. After an engaging Q&A session, GRN members were enlightened with practical advice to go back to their teams and their next board meetings. So, what were some of the key takeaways?

6: HR Masterclass: Measuring Our Impact on the Business

The pace of change in HR Tech is alarming with huge investments being made right now so what can we expect to learn from some of the practical examples currently being deployed in graduate recruitment? At the recent invitation-only GRN Masterclass, members were treated to insights from both Higher Education and Inhouse recruiters by Lynne Hamilton-Gow from ICAEW and Max Knupfer from EVA.ai. Jenny from GRB did a fantastic job opening and chairing the event and also announcing the new website for GRN! In attendance to hear these insights were senior early talent managers from forward-thinking recruiters such as Accenture, Adobe, Boeing, John Lewis Partnership and Selecta plus many others, kindly hosted at ICAEW in London. After an engaging Q&A session, GRN members were enlightened with practical advice to go back to their teams and their next board meetings. So, what were some of the key takeaways?

5: Tech Masterclass: Machine Learning and AI in Recruitment

How do you get your company to stand out amongst the 2.2m university students in the UK? Well let’s look at who is doing it well and staying relevant to the 18-24 year-old demographic. Who better than a marketing agency with a client list as diverse as adidas to Royal Navy to give us recruiters some hope! Timings: Dan Hawes, GRB > 0m00s - 3m47s Sharon Spice, ICAEW > 3m48s - 31m04s  Q&A >31m05s - 39m59s Letty Key, ZONE > 40m00s - 1h10m35s Q&A >1h10m36s - 1h29m07s Closing remarks > 1h29m08s - 1h29m56s Update Description (https://audioboom.com/posts/7207399-mentoring-masterclass-help-your-graduates-reach-their-potential/edit)

4: Student Marketing Masterclass: Lessons Recruiters Can Learn From Brand Marketing

Discover how SAGE introduced, managed and measured a successful graduate mentoring programme. Timings: Jenny Austin, GRB > 0m00s - 7m09s Sharon Spice, ICAEW > 7m09s - 38m20s  Q&A >38m20s - 44m48s Harriet Kirk, SAGE > 44m48s - 1h09m11s Closing remarks > 1h09m11s - 1h10m39s

3: Mentoring Masterclass: Help Your Graduates Reach Their Potential

Change is in the air! Not just with our relationship with Europe but on a much grander, macro-economic scale. Forces that are shaping our economy and ultimately our place within it are creating huge challenges as to how we proceed in the workplace. A huge topic to tackle but GRN members were guided through this maelstrom by the excellent Tim Skeet and his presentation entitled: Brains for BREXIT: Graduate skillsets your company need for a post-BREXIT world.

2: Skills Masterclass: Brains for BREXIT

Welcome to GRN's very first podcast. Hear from Gemma Hurt at Kerry Foods how she managed to run a successful induction - with no budget!

1: Induction Masterclass: How To Ace Your Inductions

Hello. Graduate Recruiters Network (GRN) was established by Dan Hawes, Co-Founder of the Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB) in 2009. GRN is designed as an invitation-only members group exclusively for clients of GRB and other carefully selected Graduate Recruiters, HR Advisors, HR Business Partners, Recruitment Managers, Recruitment Directors, Talent Partners and Talent Leads from a broad spectrum of companies and sectors across the UK and Europe. We have over 2,300 members. This informal group provides a confidential and relaxed environment to discuss current topics in graduate recruitment, share knowledge and help everyone reach their graduate recruitment goals. Every March, June, September and December we invite up to 30 members to a GRN Masterclass event in the City of London. We spend two hours hearing brief presentations from University Heads of Careers, researchers, thought leaders and practitioners and then spend the majority of the time discussing and debating the key issues.