Openness Research

This research was undertaken to help increase the number of graduates who have a disability or long-term health condition successfully apply for graduate jobs.

The aim was to understand why disabled graduates are so reluctant to inform employers about their disability during the recruitment process, and to highlight what employers needed to be doing to encourage openness.

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Understanding how graduates search for jobs

Prepared for Lloyds Banking Group, 2011

Organisations are continually looking to attract and recruit the very best graduates; to do so means having to be totally inclusive in all their recruitment practices.

Whilst much progress has been made to recruit more female graduates and graduates from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups into industries such as finance and banking, law and professional services little, if any, progress has been made to attract and recruit graduates who have a disability or long term health condition.

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