Talent & Potential work with graduates in a number of ways, but our focus is always on equipping them with the career skills and attitudes that will enable them to succeed inside your organisation, so that they stay and provide a great return on investment.

Graduate Success Card Pack
You want graduates with the attitudes and behaviours of the high fliers, right from induction.  You want people who leap into action to clear the coffee cups and mess away before the Managing Director arrives, and not the ones who sit back and act like consumers, and then write their complaints on the feedback sheet when it is too late to change anything.   We make it easy for you to shape the right behaviours, because we have carried out a study on high flier graduates and captured their key behaviours in a Graduate Success Card Pack, with exercises that can be used at induction, and emails that enable them to revisit the cards at key times in their first year.

The cards cover induction, first week, delivery tips, managing your manager, managing placements, building relationships, and how to learn on the job.  

Contact us to get a sample pack of Graduate Success Cards.

We also use our research into the graduates who were seen as adding significantly more value, 3-7 years into their careers, in other ways – Keynote speeches, selection advice, and competency frameworks, for example.


Drive Your Career! & Career Conferences
If you only have budget for doing one thing with your graduates, Drive Your Career! is it.  

This 1-day or 2-day workshop puts all the results of our research into thousands of people who have driven fast-track careers into a package with a single aim – to get your graduates to be self-reliant in finding their own career opportunities in your organisation.  If they can do this, they will be satisfied, stay, and progress fast.

Drive Your Career's best run part-way through graduate schemes, to maximise graduate's ability to build their reputation and create their own career opportunities.  But graduates approaching the end of their scheme also want to know the fast-track approach to formal systems like applications, interviews, and your first 100 days in a new job.  Career Conferences are designed to meet this need.  They also involve graduates in setting up and running their own plenary sessions with senior managers, so that there is a strong sense of self-direction and ownership of the Conference.

Graduates are a notoriously difficult audience to please, so we are proud of the fact that over the last year, we have received 98% Excellent or Good ratings from graduate participants for Drive Your Career, with Career Conferences following close behind with 94-97% Excellent or Good ratings.  Comments show that graduates are impressed by our fact-based approach, practical tools, and the fact that our consultants have driven fast-track careers themselves.   

Find out more from Ben Roberts, a recent NHS graduate.

 
Graduate Development
Talent & Potential also deliver other graduate development solutions, including full-featured custom-designed programmes.  Everything we do pushes a strong self-directed message – equipping graduates to take practical approaches so they can create success even in an imperfect environment or when working with busy managers.