The worldwide Employer Branding specialist Universum, identifies since more than 20 years, students career expectations. The latest Communicating with Talent report gives us losts of information about which channels students use, to learn about their potential employers.
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After many years of gender issues in the professional world being discussed in the media no real significant progress was made in this case. It is clear that the preferences of women and men differ and this is the case also when talking about career. Let`s have a glance at the employer rankings in Switzerland split in two categories showing the perspective of male and female students. Read the rest of this entry »

How important is to be competitively or intellectually challenged on the job? What do students say?
Take a look at the heat map to see how cultural and regional differences play a part in what new talent want.
Austria is the country where it is the most important for students to be competitively and intellectually challenged by their employer, followed by Switzerland and Spain.
The Universum Awards is a chance to network with employer branding & HR professionals and members of universities. It’s the time of year to discover the results of the Universum Student Survey 2011. Registration is possible now. Read the rest of this entry »
Due to more people reaching retirement age and the declining interest in STEM-related education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in the west, the engineer deficit is growing. Industries such as aerospace and defence need far more scientists, technologists and engineers than soon will be available. Read the rest of this entry »
On 8th October the Swiss edition of Unviersum TOP 100 was published and distributed together with the magazine Bilanz. We are proud to present this exclusive publication where top employers for graduates are featured.
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Nelly Riggenbach, Country Manager at Universum Communications Switzerland welcomed all guests to the Awards Ceremony at the Gala Dinner. After a short presentation related to Universum and its products and services, Anna Dyhre, the country manager of Universum Communications Sweden, summarised the seminar sessions and presented some key findings. Axel Keulertz, the Universum Research Director of Europe, then took over and presented the rankings of the Universum Student Survey 2009 – the climax of the evening.
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