Fresh Graduate Recruitment Opportunities Exclusively For SMEs

InternStar, Britainís first intern recruitment company, offers small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to identify talent from its pool of high quality interns. With a new website, InternStar makes it easy for British businesses and candidates to meet online.

The company has been working with over thirty small and medium sized businesses in London and over 100 ambitious, talented candidates that are university students, young graduates and postgraduates.

As demand for high quality candidates intensifies, businesses need to search for new talent earlier than ever before in a bid to stay ahead of their competition. Many leading corporations have well planned and publicized internship programs that attract students in large numbers, but medium and small-size companies often do not have the tools in place to conduct a coordinated search for value-adding interns.

The InternStar model is a simple one and allows SMEs the opportunity to:

ï Test-drive highly qualified candidates from top universities and MBA programs with no risk
ï Staff growth opportunities and short term projects
ï Reduce HR costs: full-time employees require salaries, bonuses, payroll taxes, benefits, etc.
ï Tap into talent from the next generation of achievers to stay ahead of the competition

InternStar founder and CEO, Sulove Bothra, views the service as an innovative approach to recruiting, offering qualified and motivated personnel to smaller work forces.

ìInternships allow businesses to mitigate risk by trying out a candidate first, offering a better alternative to direct recruitment. By taking on an intern, companies can bypass hiring freezes, so that projects are properly staffed,î says Bothra.

ìThe main reason why so many SMEs are not benefiting from internships as much as they could is the amount of time and effort involved in finding the right candidate. InternStar acts as a quality matching service for both sides, and takes away the headache of searching from scratch.î

The number of people without a job in Britain reached 2.4 million in August with almost 1 million of those under the age of 25 – a fifth of the nation's young people. So are companies just taking advantage of the economic downturn by employing graduates on unpaid internships during the recession?

ìFor most interns, considerations such as a competitive salary and perks are mostly secondary to their implicit desire to learn,î says Bothra.

ìWe believe that small and medium sized businesses not only offer more rounded and real life work experience, but potentially have the most to gain from fresh and talented individuals.î

Over in the US, internships are an increasingly popular way of ìlanding that job,î with employers extending offers to 73% of past interns.*

InternStar is currently in talks with a number of universities, government agencies and trade federations to help grow the service over the next twelve months. Visit www.internstar.com for more information or call 020 7183 9920.