Introducing S-Connect

S-Connect (Student-Connect) believes that building a strong employer brand is crucial to recruiting high potential graduates. As Graduate Specialist consultants we are able to offer a holistic service that will help build your employer brand and follow through to build strong relationships with employees after hire.

We are able to offer 4 unique services to you:

• S-Connected Program (Monitor and mentoring of bursary students)
• Work –readiness training
• Graduate recruitment
• Consulting on Graduate Training programs

The S-Connected Program is a monitoring and mentoring program for students on bursaries. We will act as a liaison between companies/ trusts and the students who are being sponsored by their bursary funds.

Building this relationship with students will ensure they are kept abreast of business news and results, creating a strong sense of “connectedness” with their bursar. We will see students face-to-face throughout the year and saving travel and in some cases accommodation costs for bursars.

Work-readiness training, these would be short training sessions focusing on basic topics like business etiquette, job-searching, CV preparation and interview skills.

Our “bite-size” training offering will create a platform for meeting graduates and engaging with them outside of the recruitment process it is also an excellent opportunity to establish the employer brand. The type of training we will offer will include Business Etiquette and Communication, Translating Academic Knowledge in the Work Environment, CV Preparation (industry specific); Interview Skills including mock interviews.

University gives graduates the knowledge to perform a role at a certain level and develops the graduate’s ability to think, analyse and problem solve. We aim to equip graduates with the tools to use this knowledge and ability, efficiently, effectively and with utmost professionalism. We hope to present the working world with graduates that are corporate savvy and smart.

We aim to ensure that every graduate that passes through our hands or that of our clients will not only be corporate smart, savvy and set but they will be able to apply and utilize their tools with absolute aplomb.

Recruitment of graduates to businesses with graduate training programs in place. We will supply a full range of options from partial recruitment services or end-to-end recruitment services (with various options in between).

In a persistently fragile economy where labour costs are high, recruitment mistakes potentially disastrous and companies are constantly looking at how to save money. We propose recruiting graduates who show excellent potential for industry, brand and technical fit. This will enable companies to recruit potential high performers at a lower cost and focus on fast tracking them into key strategic positions.

We will strive to work hand in glove with the recruiters ensuring that the best graduates are selected for their programmes, satisfying a need for a culture and corporate fit, skills and attitude and aptitude for the role.

We will help develop clear and structured Graduate Training Programs training programs with specific measurables in place to monitor progress.

Many employers are actively recruiting graduates directly from the tertiary institutions but are not nurturing of the graduates they recruit. Graduates are expected to fulfil junior roles in the businesses with little support and are often accountable for important portfolios without the necessary support, management and leadership that they need. We offer to help structure programmes that will meet business needs and graduate expectations.

With huge amount of time, energy and money that is invested in training graduates the ultimate goal of the Graduate training program should be RETENTION. We will measure the success for the graduate training initiatives based on the companies’ ability to retain these graduates at the end of the program.

We aim to ensure that they are valued, respected and nurtured throughout their program and will be there to assist both the graduate and HR.