Transforming business challenges into opportunities with Early Careers
Providing Early Careers opportunities to the very best Early Talent helps to bridge the future skills gap within your business with the fresh ideas, perspectives and knowledge of the next generation of STEM talent.
Beyond your business, by supporting Early Careers, you can help to make a wide-reaching impact on your specific industry and STEM, ensuring we have the skills and talent in place to continue developing and driving the power of STEM in the years and decades ahead.
Building a sustainable pipeline of talent through Early Careers initiatives helps to enable consistent growth and development within your teams, with Early Talent ready to fill – and thrive in – any gaps in your workforce.
No matter which specialism, department or role requires new talent and ideas, ensuring you have a pipeline of people who are ready and able to step in and apply their skills enables your business and projects to continue to thrive.
Early Careers initiatives power diverse and inclusive hiring, helping you to find, attract and hire talent and provide opportunities to all – regardless of race, religion, sexuality and socio-economic background – in line with your organisational ED&I aspirations.
And by providing such opportunities, you also represent your company as an employer of choice for people within minority groups. This helps you to stand out as a place where the very best talent from these groups will want to work, grow and build an exciting, fulfilling career.
Through our Career for Life Programme, we build long-term relationships with early talent and support their development and connect your business with the very best candidates that match your Early Careers hiring goals.
Our tailored attraction, screening, and management services embed your brand and culture, enhancing engagement with potential hires. By leveraging our extensive university network and candidate database, we help you secure tomorrow’s talent.
Enabling Early Careers helps you to build and showcase your company’s brand and reputation for providing opportunities to those starting their career journey, not only for employment, but also for growth and development.
What’s more, with our Early Careers support and expertise, we can help shape and enhance your Employee Value Proposition (EVP), ensuring the salary, benefits, rewards, and work-life balance you offer, as well as your values, mission, social purpose, and culture, reflect the needs and expectations of the best STEM talent.
Partnering with SRG ensures that your Early Careers strategy aligns with your business goals. As a market-leader in science, clinical, and engineering workforce solutions, SRG is committed to offering tailored recruitment services that attract top talent at every level.
You can trust in our decades of recruitment and Early Careers expertise and experience. Working in collaboration with you, we’ll help you build a workforce for the future, one that will drive your business and project success.
What is Early Careers?
Early Careers refers to the development opportunities provided to individuals at the early stages of their career. These people, who are often undergraduates or graduates, are also known as Early Talent, Future Talent or Emerging Talent.
What we do?
Using our Early Careers expertise and experience, we can help you build a pipeline of the very best early talent to hire, nurture and develop for the future of your workforce.
Early Careers at SRG attracts and develops the very best talent through various initiatives including:
- Industrial Placements or Sandwich Years
- Graduate Programmes
- Internships
- Summer Placements
- Apprenticeships
- Consultancy Services
No matter which initiative meets your Early Careers requirements, you can trust in us to engage with talent that matches your company values and EDI aspirations, knowing we understand that diversity helps to drive innovation, creativity and performance.
How we can help you
By developing outstanding early talent, we’ll bring real, tangible value to your people development strategy.
Our services are tailored to you and your specific needs – whether you're an SME, small bio or multinational. We offer a flexible delivery model which means we can support you every step of the way with our end-to-end Early Careers solutions, ensuring the recruitment and ongoing work lifecycle is seamless.
You can trust in us to provide:
Understanding
- Detailed benchmarking
- ‘Best Match’ University courses
- Expert person specifications
- Strength-based assessment of suitability
- Engagement with cultural values
Attraction
- Targeted marketing campaigns
- Contact with established university networks
- Social media campaigns
- Branded microsite hosted on our website
Screening
- Bespoke interactive screening questionnaires
- Aptitude testing
- Competency scoring matrix
- Psychometric testing
- Assessment centres and management
Candidate Management
- Payroll support
- All aspects of candidate management
- Regular events to maintain engagement
- Post programme pipeline tracking
Recruit Train Deploy
Our Recruit, Train and Deploy solutions empower early and experienced talent through comprehensive training and development, addressing skill gaps and enhancing your organisation with fresh perspectives.
