Seventy percent of graduate and intern in-take comes from outside the UK

Seventy percent of graduate and intern in-take comes from outside the UK owing to candidates having a higher skill set Ö

Ö so stated one of the delegates at GTI Recruiting Solutionsí international recruitment conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The conference, held last week, took the form of a debate with a distinguished panel that included Keith Dugdale, Director of Global Recruitment for KPMG; Fiona Sandford, Director of Careers Services at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Oliver Viel, Director Trendence Institut GmbH; a leading European employer branding research consultancy and Sophie Barrett-Brown, a partner of Laura Devine Solicitors and eminent immigration law specialist. Other delegates commented that they had shrunk their world when it came to recruiting since the changes in the UK Border Agencies rules last November for work permits. The counterpoint to this is that there is plenty of talent in the EU pool although good quality applicants with strong mathematical or engineering skills are still hard to come by. Some of the larger Law firms are expecting a graduate ìdown turn dividendî in that more males are expected to apply to Law firms rather than the Investment Banks, although men are still very much in the minority in comparison to women.