Early Careers & Graduate Recruitment Services for Employers

We support employers in attracting and hiring exceptional graduate and early careers talent. As a specialist recruitment partner, we design tailored campaigns to connect you with diverse candidates across the UK.

From building targeted attraction strategies to managing large-scale hiring campaigns, our services give you access to graduates, interns, and apprentices who can make an immediate impact in your business.
Outsourced Recruitment
Need entry-level talent in your business? As a graduate recruitment agency, we specialise in sourcing graduates, interns and apprentices for employers across the UK. From one-off hires to high-volume campaigns, we deliver the right people at scale with a focus on diverse early careers talent.
Attraction Strategies
We design tailored attraction campaigns that connect employers with early careers and graduate talent.Our expertise ensures you reach a wide, diverse pool of candidates while improving ROI and strengthening your employer brand.
Targeted Emailing
Want to reach specific demographics of students or graduates? Our targeted emailing service gives you access to a unique database of early careers candidates and trusted university partners, helping you promote opportunities directly to the right audience.
Diversity Events
We run impactful diversity-focused events that help employers engage with graduates and early careers talent. From on-campus sessions to virtual experiences, we create opportunities for you to connect with underrepresented candidates and strengthen your commitment to inclusive recruitment.
Campus Brand Ambassadors
Boost your employer brand with student ambassadors who promote your opportunities on campus. Our ambassador programmes help employers strengthen their presence with graduates and undergraduates, while supporting diversity in recruitment.

Our Reach Across Universities & Students

Through our partnerships and campus networks, we connect employers with:

200
k+
On our database
250
+
Student societies
120
+
UK universities connected to
50
+
Formal university careers service partnerships
4
k+
Access to school and colleges
This reach ensures your graduate recruitment campaigns target the right candidates at the right time, across the UK and beyond.

Why Employers Choose Sanctuary Graduates

Part of your team
We act as an extension of your HR or recruitment team, supporting all aspects of graduate and early careers hiring.
Client Care
Our personal approach ensures graduates and interns receive the best candidate experience, helping you attract and retain top talent.
Giving you control
We provide transparent reporting and full oversight of every graduate recruitment campaign, so you remain in control while we manage the delivery.

Need help getting quality, diverse talent for your business?

We're the
diversity experts

As proud partners of The Sutton Trust and thought leaders in diversity within early careers, we’re committed to helping employers find the most diverse talent and creating a more supportive, equal and accessible experience for applicants.

Members with
We're the diversity experts

Success stories

Check out some recent targeted email case studies

Rolls Royce

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Action

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Result

Sanctuary generated 574 female applications and this campaign won the 2023 Best Single Purpose Attraction Award at the ISE.

Highlights

3
Day campaign
3,098
Clicks
774
Applications
841
Female students called

Rolls Royce

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Result

Sanctuary generated 574 female applications and this campaign won the 2023 Best Single Purpose Attraction Award at the ISE.

Highlights

  • 13-day campaign
  • 3,098 clicks
  • 574 applications
  • 841 female students called

Rolls Royce

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Result

Sanctuary generated 574 female applications and this campaign won the 2023 Best Single Purpose Attraction Award at the ISE.

Highlights

  • 13-day campaign
  • 3,098 clicks
  • 574 applications
  • 841 female students called

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

Situation

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars asked Sanctuary to design a 13-day campaign to drive the 417 female applications they need to hit their targets and ultimately diversify their graduate intake to help with their female diversity mission.

Action

Sanctuary adopted various attraction methods to target female candidates including phone calls and personal emails, collaborating with our university partners to send targeted content to female students and managing our Career Ambassadors who directly promoted the opportunities on campus, including through female-focused societies.

Result

Sanctuary generated 574 female applications and this campaign won the 2023 Best Single Purpose Attraction Award at the ISE.

Highlights

13
Day campaign
3098
Clicks
574
Applications
841
Female students called

Diversity Event for London-Based Investment Management Firm - M&G Investments

Situation

M&G already get large volumes of applications but wanted to see an increase in their gender, ethnic and social mobility pipelines

Action

Sanctuary tapped into our diverse student society, departmental and database networks to drive attendance from M&G’s target audience in just two weeks.

Result

6 of the 30 attendees were hired following the delivery of the event. AI screening initially rejected these candidates, but a ‘Second Look’ diversity initiative comfortably overrode AI’s decision.

Highlights

30
Attendees
100%
Female
65%
Black heritage
6
Hires made

Delivering Hires For Tough-To-Fill Locations For One Of The Big Four - KPMG

Situation

KPMG sought 12 diverse hires (gender, ethnicity, socio-economic) across 4 different business areas for their hard to fill locations and pathways (mainly Audit in Aberdeen)

Action

Sanctuary engaged with our unique, diverse campus networks and university partnerships across the UK, specifically Scottish based universities - widening participation partners, diverse student societies and our database of talent.

Result

12 hires were made out of 12 across the different pathways.

Highlights

2369
Applications
70%
Ethnic Minority hires
70%
Female hires
100%
Roles filled

End-to-End Recruitment for Multinational Insurance Firm Seeking Diverse Outcomes - Markel

Situation

Markel wanted to hire 28 talented hires across multiple business areas across multiple levels (apprentices, grads and placement students).

Action

Sanctuary leveraged our diverse university campus networks and partnerships to drive relevant talent from diverse backgrounds for each pathway simultaneously.

Result

28 hires made out of 28 across several pathways. We’re now commencing our 4th year working together.

Highlights

2,797
Applications
36%
Less privileged hires
57%
Female hires
100%
Roles filled

What our clients say

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"Kate and I have been delighted with the expertise and support we’ve received from all of the team at Sanctuary from day one, and particularly at the great working relationship we’ve enjoyed with all of you who we have come to consider our new friends. So a heartfelt thanks from Stagecoach for helping us to arrive where we are today.”

Sean Algar

Head of Talent Management, Stagecoach Bus

“Sanctuary Graduates have been a pleasure to work with. They firstly put in the time and effort to understand our business and recruiting requirements, before effectively screening high quality candidates and facilitating our virtual assessment centres. We have received excellent feedback from our new graduate cohort regarding the support they provided throughout the interview process and we would highly recommend their service.”

Caillie Holliday

Talent & Development Lead and HR Advisor, Graphnet

“Working with Sanctuary Graduates has been a seamless and positive experience. Their professionalism, attention to detail, and ability to understand our needs have been invaluable in helping us secure the right talent time and time again. I appreciate their collaborative approach and consistent/prompt support throughout the hiring process. Highly recommend them to any business looking for quality early-career recruitment services”

Anthony Chen

Associate Director, Phi Partners

“I have enjoyed working with everyone from SG. From the moment I made contact until today, the care shown and the understanding of our business has been outstanding. The time that has been spent on understanding our company and roles has been brilliant and that has resulted in a smooth and efficient hiring process. Communications have been easy and effective, nothing is ever too much trouble for Sanctuary Grads and all the advice has been professional and knowledgeable. The candidates sent to us all met the brief, were of superb quality but amazingly, SG really understood our culture so the cultural fit was spot on. The fees for the service were incredibly competitive making it affordable for us to engage with SG. And I am glad we did, because we now have four fantastic capable grads that we are all enjoying working with and who have slotted right into the EV family!”

Heather Magee

HR Director, Evalue

“FutureProof’s mission is to help the best, most diverse talent build the technology of tomorrow. Sanctuary Graduates have collaborated with us since our inception, embedding themselves in our organisation at executive, strategic and operational levels in order to fully grasp and deliver on our mission. Together, we have faced off the many challenges as we have scaled up to start the careers of hundreds of graduates each year. We simply could not have done this without them. It is a partnership in the full sense of the word and they are key to us. They are very good at what they do but also humble and keen to improve. Like all relationships it has its ups and downs but importantly all our feedback has been listened to and acted upon and this has served to strengthen the relationship and our trust in Sanctuary.”

Simon La Fosse

Founder and Executive Chariman, La Fosse

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