An early-careers recruitment desk built around partnership-led hiring. UK-wide briefs, ten service areas, one consultant per client.
NextGen Career Solutions runs permanent recruitment for the part of the UK market most agencies skim past on their way to the senior brief. Graduates, apprentices, school leavers, gap-year returners, career switchers in their first three years - the candidates who still have the most growth in front of them, and the most upside for an employer who hires them properly.
The team has run early-careers searches across UK SMEs, mid-market employers and the UK arms of international companies for over a decade. We work UK-wide, with a network that reaches across grad schemes, apprenticeship channels, university careers services and the active early-careers pool.
The person who picks up your call runs your search end to end. No researcher in the back room. No handover when you sign the contract. The phone number you dial first is the phone number you dial all the way through to the day-90 check-in.
Junior hires live or die on culture fit and motivation. We dig into how the team learns, what onboarding looks like, who the line manager is, and what kind of energy actually thrives. Your shortlist gets calibrated to that, not just the keyword search.
Right-to-work, references where applicable, qualifications, gap explanations and motivations all confirmed before a CV reaches you. The shortlist is what you act on, not what you start triaging.
Send CVs we have not vetted. Inflate salary expectations to win the brief. Pretend a candidate is keen when they are not. Pull a candidate from one of your competitors without their explicit consent. Run a search where the salary band looks low for the level we know it needs.
HR business partners, talent acquisition leads, founders, and hiring managers at UK employers building an early-careers pipeline on purpose. SMEs, mid-market and the UK arms of international employers all sit comfortably with us. If you have ever paid an agency for a graduate hire and watched the junior leave inside six months, you know exactly why we exist.
Every permanent placement comes with a 12-week replacement guarantee. If a hire does not stay, we re-run the search at no additional fee. The terms are written into the engagement letter, not buried in T&Cs.