Personnel Today reports that IBM has announced a dramatic
increase to its graduate recruitment schemes for 2010.
The technology giant told the HR website that it plans to expand
the number of graduate jobs on offer because of a "crying need for
talent".
HR director for IBM UK and Ireland, Johnathan Ferrar, has
promised to expand the graduate scheme from 94 places in 2009 to
150 for 2010. This increase sets the company as the business with
the most ambitious recruitment plans for 2010; not only will it be
keeping all of its existing places, it will actually be expanding
them by 50%.
Ferrar told Personnel Today that the company recruits graduates
so they can offer relevant training early in their career, giving
them the new skills required by IBM. He said that the company's new
technologies will require "different skills" to develop sales and
create opportunities, and that IBM wants "to have people who can
start from scratch and learn those".
"When you get specialist skills there is definitely a war for
that talent" he said. "There definitely is a crying need for that
talent."
IBM has also launched an initiative to improve the performance
of its existing employees, a new management leadership programme
which aims to reach nearly 80% of the firm's managers. The
programme will offer presentation training and other lessons on
improving clarity of communication, as well as helping staff to
cope with the effects of the economic downturn through sales
management training and other programmes.
"We felt it was really important to focus on our managers
because we rely on them so much for doing a lot of the
communications and helping our employees through difficult times."
Ferrar told Personnel Today.
"When times are harder, the skills of a manager become even more
important.
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