On Monday The Times talked about ‘lost’ opportunity as companies auction off work experience for up to £3,700

BUT we don’t think Britain is lost yet. The UK’s most important UK corporate index, the FTSE 100 is up over 40% from its lows, sterling has defied expectation and rallied in recent months (largely at the expense of the Euro) and with the possibility of fresh leadership come the Summer we’re expecting the usual bust:boom transition to snap in to place soon. Barclays announced record profits and record tax revenue for UK Plc yesterday suggesting that we might see change sooner rather than later. Even more encouragingly, this morning’’s UK unemployment statistics showed an unexpected fall…

Amidst all this, we were pleased to have our efforts recognised here in the Financial Times last week. We are very proud to be able to offer companies across the UK tax efficient ways (and occasionally subsidies) to take on graduates on tax free employment schemes (Get more details here). We are now also putting the wheels in motion to lobby the government to incentivise small companies to take on more graduates. AGR research has demonstrated that graduates contribute around £1 billion a year of added value to the UK economy. The University of Lancaster have produced research suggesting that after three years, every £1 spent through
graduate recruitment schemes yields a return of £5.30.

From our travels to Cardiff University last week, we know there is clearly a lot of graduate talent about. But we know life is difficult at the moment. And while job rejections may not be any easier to stomach remember the words of Winston Churchill: “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”. Keep priming up those WEXO profiles and we’ will do what we can to big up your CV…