1) Many recent graduates took lower-skilled jobs unrelated to their degree such as office juniors, cleaners, and bartenders. 7% did not have a job after 6 months. Only 58% felt their degree made them more employable. 2) A professional services employer announced they would remove the requirement for a degree for entry-level positions since success in university does not necessarily correlate with career achievement. 3) IBM offers online predictive assessments to help university students and recent graduates understand their strengths, skills, and abilities to improve their chances of getting hired into the right job roles.

1. A third of graduates took
jobs as office juniors,
cleaners, road sweepers,
bartenders and window
cleaners...
7% did not even have a job
after 6 months.1
Only 58% graduates
believe they are more
employable. Less than a
quarter are confident about
securing their desired job.2
A Professional Services
employer announced it
will be removing the degree
classification from its entry
criteria, saying there is
“no evidence”
success at university
correlates with achievement
in later life.3
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Hired’
IBM can help Career services to:
Benefits of using IBM Assessments:
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IBM Predictive Assessments
Employers are looking to hire university students and recent graduates who not only have the relevant
degrees, but more importantly have the innate talent, motivations, skills and strengths to be successful
in the job and the workplace.
Use IBM Online Predictive Assessments to help students ‘Get Hired’ by preparing them to
understand the key behaviours, soft skills and abilities that are required for the future of the workplace.
The assessment insights will help students make a successful transition into the right role for the right
organisation, or into choosing the appropriate degree for further education.
Support students with
tailored recommendations
based on science and data.
What Can
You Do?
IBM Personality Assessment
IBM Cognitive Ability Assessment
What Do You
Want to Do?
IBM Motivational Questionnaire
What Have
You Done?
IBM Skills Assessment
Provide students with the clarity
and confidence that they truly
understand their own motivations,
abilities and soft skills in order to
apply to relevant post graduate
degree programs and desired jobs.
Provide students with
development guidance to
ensure they understand how
to improve their prospects
of being hired.
Using IBM Personality Assessment
insights, students can determine whether
they have key soft skills such as:
• Leadership potential
• Teamwork
• Collaboration
• Emotional and social intelligence
• Personal accountability
• Effective work habits
• Integrity
Using IBM Motivational Questionnaire
insights, students will learn about their
primary environmental, interpersonal, and
intrapersonal needs. Students can gain a
greater understanding of their strengths and
areas that require further development,
which in turn may assist in determining the
type of job for which they are best suited.
Using IBM Skills Assessment insights,
students can help confirm their proficiency
level on skills they have learned through
education and work experience, and be
supported with further development before
applying to roles. Skills may include:
• Software package proficiency such as
Microsoft
• Media literacy
• Degree related skills
Using IBM Cognitive Ability Assessment
insights students will learn whether they have
the innate ability to:
• Think critically and logically
• Problem solve and think analytically
• Effectively communicate, analyse and
interpret written information
Career counsellors are
provided with the insights to
offer tailored advice and
support, enabling students to
be confident in applying to their
desired job and getting hired.
The ability to partner with a provider
with over 25 years of assessment
and talent consulting experience,
plus behavioral insight and
predictive analytics capabilities for
recruitment and talent development.
IBM has deployed over 40
million assessments per
year to some of the largest,
most respected
organisations, institutions
and companies in the world.
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Tests are available in
multiple languages.
Immediate scoring with flexible
reports provide students data
outlining strengths, development
points and practise interview
questions.
Assessments are mobile
enabled.
Help your students get hired with IBM Predictive Assessments
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Sources:
1. HESA, 2016. Graduate employment [Online] Available at: www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/graduate-employment
2. EY, 2017. University students pessimistic about securing their dream job [Online]
Available at: www.ey.com/uk/en/newsroom/news-releases/17-01-04-university-students-pessimistic-about-securing-their-dream-job
3. The Huffington Post, 2016. Ernst & Young Removes Degree Classification From Entry Criteria As There’s ‘No Evidence’ University Equals Success [Online]
Available at: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/07/ernst-and-young-removes-degree-classification-entry-criteria_n_7932590.html