10 Reasons to Celebrate!

The year is coming to an end and it’s that time again to reflect on the past year. It certainly has been a bumper year of achievements for gradzone. An independent survey shows that leading companies are set to increase the number of graduate vacancies in 2011 by 17% compared to 2010. If you are one of these organisations then we are certainly the place to come to if you need assistance with graduate recruitment. As we are South Africa’s largest graduate job board!

Here are 10 reasons to use gradzone if you are looking to employ fresh graduate talent next year:

1. 45 graduate employers are listed on our A-Z Employers page (http://mzan.si/0WuV)
2. Our current relationship with CareersSA.net will see our listings of graduate employers double by April 2011.
3. Growth of students/graduates registered on our portal from 9 800 to 14 862
4. Our job to placement ratio is 0.2 higher than industry standard
5. Survey conducted on gradzone.professionl.com users indicated that 73.2% of respondents would be very disappointed if they could no longer use us
6. In 1 week we received a record of 891 applications to internships we advertised
7. Successfully sourced and placed 71 interns with 20 employers in 5 weeks
8. Invited to apply to the SME marketing awards programme
9. Our unique specialization in graduate recruitment saw 10 recruitment agencies find our services useful including an agency from the UK
10. Year-on-year organic growth in website traffic of 355%

If 2010 is anything to go by then 2011 is set to be an even better year as the world’s economy improves.